This study established a nonlinear control design for switched reluctance motor (SRM) vehicle applications, using the backstepping approach. The suggested controller is according to model that consider magnetic saturation while reducing torque ripple and resulting in less vibrations. To optimize ripple, angles are adjusted based on machine speed measurements. Indeed, lookup table constructed, o...

This paper presents the application of Taguchi approach in investigating the performance of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) with respect to drop rates. The performance of MANETs was influenced very much by the routing protocol designs and quantitative factors such as network size, terrain, pause-time, node speed, transmission range, traffic load, and packet rates. The NS-2 simulator was used fo...

An experimental study of the post-impact spreading of liquid droplets on dry horizontal substrates is presented in this paper. The drop spreading and recoil behaviors are captured using a high-speed digital video camera at 2000 frames per second. To ascertain the effects of liquid interfacial and viscous properties, experiments were conducted with five liquids (water, ethylene glycol, propylene...

Liquid-liquid dispersions are commonly used for separations and reaction systems, because the added interfacial area due to dispersion aids in mass transfer and chemical reaction rates. Transient coalescence experiments have been performed for a wide range of dispersed-phase fractions and impeller speeds. A similarity transformation of the experimental drop-size distribution is possible for mos...

Catcher bearings (CB) are an essential component for rotating machine with active magnetic bearings (AMBs) suspensions. The CB’s role is to protect the magnetic bearing and other close clearance component in the event of an AMB failure. The contact load, the Hertzian stress, and the sub/surface shear stress between rotor, races, and balls are calculated, using a nonlinear ball bearing model wit...

This paper seeks to bridge the two major algorithmic approaches to sparse signal recovery from an incomplete set of linear measurements – L1-minimization methods and iterative methods (Matching Pursuits). We find a simple regularized version of the Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (ROMP) which has advantages of both approaches: the speed and transparency of OMP and the strong uniform guarantees of t...

We present a new multiscale approach for deformable contour optimization. The method relies on a multigrid minimization method and a coarse-to-fine relaxation algorithm. This approach consists in minimizing a cascade of optimization problems of reduced complexity. Contrary to classical multi-resolution algorithms, no reduction of image is applied. The family of defined energy functions are deri...

This paper seeks to bridge the two major algorithmic approaches to sparse signal recovery from an incomplete set of linear measurements – L1-minimization methods and iterative methods (Matching Pursuits). We find a simple regularized version of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (ROMP) which has advantages of both approaches: the speed and transparency of OMP and the strong uniform guarantees of L1-mi...

A model of hydrophobic collapse, which is treated as the driving force for protein folding, is presented. This model is the superposition of three models commonly used in protein structure prediction: (1) 'oil-drop' model introduced by Kauzmann, (2) a lattice model introduced to decrease the number of degrees of freedom for structural changes and (3) a model of the formation of hydrophobic core...