This paper develops a cascaded sliding mode observer method to reconstruct actuator faults for a class of descriptor linear systems. Based on a new canonical form, a novel design method is presented to discuss the existence conditions of the sliding mode observer. Furthermore, the proposed method is extended to general descriptor linear systems with actuator faults. Finally, the effectiveness o...

In many signal processing applications, such as EEG analysis, the non-stationary signal is often required to be segmented into small epochs. This is accomplished by drawing the boundaries of signal at time instances where its statistical characteristics, such as amplitude and/or frequency, change. In the proposed method, the original signal is initially decomposed into signals with different fr...

The conventional sliding window (CSW) method has long been used in video segmentation for its adaptive thresholding technique. A hard cut is detected based on the ratio between the current feature value and its local neighborhood in the sliding window. Yet it has a relatively high rate of false alarm and missed cuts. This paper proposes an improved sliding window method which employs multi adap...

While nucleosome positioning on eukaryotic genome play important roles for genetic regulation, molecular mechanisms of nucleosome positioning and sliding along DNA are not well understood. Here we investigated thermally-activated spontaneous nucleosome sliding mechanisms developing and applying a coarse-grained molecular simulation method that incorporates both long-range electrostatic and shor...

This paper deals with the design of a moving sliding surface in a variable structure plant for a second order system. The chattering phenomena is also dealt with during the switching process for an unstable sliding surface condition. The simulation examples considered in this paper shows the effectiveness of the sliding mode control method used for the design of the moving sliding surfaces. A s...

This paper proposes an intelligent formation control method of the leader and follower agents with nonlinear dynamics. In the proposed method, agents can exchange only information of positions of available agents and the follower agents follow the leader, taking a predefined formation. In the real world, the method that doesn’t need a lot of information to make cooperative behaviors is very use...

Based on the concept of sliding mode control, we study the problem of steady state covariance assignment for bilinear stochastic systems. We find that the invariance property of sliding mode control ensures nullity of the matched bilinear term in the system on the sliding mode. By suitably using Ito calculus, the controller u(t) can be designed to force the feedback gain matrix G to achieve the...

This paper deals with the output tracking problem of a MIMO system subjected to a class of actuator faults and unmatched perturbations. The proposed methodology is based on high order sliding mode observation and identification techniques. A dynamic sliding surface is proposed using a backstepping-like design strategy in order to counteract the effects of the unmatched perturbations. Whereas a ...

For the tracking control problem of vehicle suspension, a robust design method of adaptive sliding mode control is derived in this paper. The influence of parameter uncertainties and external disturbances on the system performance can be reduced and system robustness can be improved. The adaptive sliding mode controller is designed so that the practical system can track the state of the referen...

This paper concentrates on the Doppler spectrum characteristics of hybrid bistatic SAR experiments, i.e., TerraSAR-X/PAMIR where TerraSAR-X was steered as the illuminator in the sliding spotlight mode, and PAMIR, mounted on a Transall C-160, operated in the inverse sliding spotlight mode. The bistatic Double Sliding Spotlight (DSS) experiment has been successfully performed in March 2009. For t...