in this research, an apparatus was made and utilized to determine the friction coeffi-cient of chickpea grains on steel surfaces. experiments were carried out on two black and galvanized surfaces and at four sliding velocities of 5, 20, 100 and 500 mm/min, at three moisture content of 7.5%, 15% and 21% wet basis (w.b.) and at three vertical pressure values of 14.28, 100 and 150 kpa. the followi...

Satisfactory results of automatic guidance of farm vehicles have been achieved in previous works as long as vehicles move without sliding, but unfortunately in agricultural applications, sliding always occurs inevitably which causes loss of accuracy. In this paper the problem of path following control of autonomous farm vehicles subject to sliding is addressed. To take sliding effects into acco...

This paper is concerned with sliding mode observer design and observer-based sliding mode controller synthesis for stochastic Itô descriptor systems. A novel integral sliding surface, which involves a product of sliding variable and a negative definite matrix, is constructed for the error system. It is shown that the product term not only has a stabilizing effect on the sliding variable, but al...

In this paper, we extend the sliding mode idea to a class of unmatched uncertain variable structure systems. This method is achieved with introducing a new terminal sliding variable and the finite time stability of proposed method is proved using a new particular finite time condition in both reaching and sliding phases. In reaching phase a new sliding mode controller is derived to guarantee th...

introduction: nose morphology depends on gender, ethnicity, and environmental conditions. it can be used in identification of the race and sex of persons whose identity is unknown. nasal index is a useful tool in anthropometry. methods: in this study, nasal parameters of iranian males and females students were measured (nasal height, nasal width, and nasal index). this study was conducted on 20...

in the present paper, a landslide and its stabilization is studied on a slope of tabriz northern freeway. this landslide is a large scale one, and as the study zone has a sliding potential so that its study is quite necessary. the analysis of landslide has been performed using stabl software. the way of obtaining the critical slope for land slide amongst different sections and determining a suc...

It is well established that the basis for flagellar and ciliary movements is ATP-dependent sliding between adjacent doublet microtubules. However, the mechanism for converting microtubule sliding into flagellar and ciliary movements has long remained unresolved. The author has developed new sperm models that use bull spermatozoa divested of their plasma membrane and midpiece mitochondrial sheat...

In this paper, a sliding mode control system with a predictive proportional-integral-derivative (PPID-SMC) sliding surface is proposed. A robust sliding mode controller is suggested to track the desired trajectory despite uncertainty, set point variations, and external disturbances. The proposed sliding mode controller is chosen to ensure the stability of overall dynamics during the reaching ph...

A high-order sliding mode control algorithm is proposed for nonlinear uncertain systems based on geometric homogeneity and fast terminal sliding mode. Homogeneity approach used to stabilize the nominal system, and fast terminal sliding mode used to reject the uncertainty, are applied to constructing the controller. High-order sliding mode is established by the proposed algorithm, the boundary o...