Reconfigurable Manufacturing System (RMS) justifies the need of hour by combining the high throughput of dedicated manufacturing system with the flexibility of flexible manufacturing systems. At the heart of RMS lies the Reconfigurable Machine Tools which are capable of performing multiple operations in its existing configurations and can further be reconfigured into more configurations which m...

Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSNs), a novel technique in industry control, can greatly reduce the cost of measurement and control and improve productive efficiency. Different from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in non-industrial applications, the communication reliability of IWSNs has to be guaranteed as the real-time field data need to be transmitted to the control system through IWS...

Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm (AFSA) is a kind of swarm intelligence algorithms which usually employs in optimization problems. There are many parameters to adjust in AFSA like visual and step. Through constant initializing of visual and step parameters, algorithm is only able to do local searching or global searching. In this paper, two new adaptive methods based on fuzzy systems are propose...

This paper presents a set of robust PI tuning formulae for a first order plus dead time process using particle swarm optimization. Also, tuning formulae for an integrating process with dead time, which is a special case of a first order plus dead time process, is given. The design problem considers three essential requirements of control problems, namely load disturbance rejection, setpoint reg...

Extended-range electric vehicle is considered to be the ideal transition type for electric vehicle. The optimal operation curve control strategy was proposed for a 12 meter-long range extended electric bus. With exponential function inertia weight adjustment and local chaos substitution, an improved chaotic particle swarm optimization algorithm was applied to optimize the key parameters of ener...

PID controller is the most widely used controller in industry for control applications due to its simple structure and easy parameter adjusting.But increase in complexity of control systems has introduced many modified PID controllers.The recent advancement in fractional order calculus has introduced fractional order PID controller and it has recieved a great attention for researchers.Fractiona...

In the last decade, swarm robotics gathered much attention in the research community. By drawing inspiration from social insects and other self-organising systems, it focuses on large robot groups featuring distributed control, adaptation, high robustness and flexibility. Various reasons lay behind this interest in similar multi-robot systems. Above all, inspiration comes from the observation o...

Traditional control approaches fall well short of the necessary flexibility and efficiency needed to meet the commercial and military demands placed upon UAV swarms. Effective coordination of these swarms requires development of control strategies based on emergent behavior. We have developed a rule-based, decentralized control algorithm that relies on constrained randomized behavior and respec...

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has shown to be an efficient, robust and simple optimization algorithm. Most of the PSO studies are empirical, with only a few theoretical analyses that concentrate on understanding particle trajectories. This paper overviews current theoretical studies, and extend these studies to applications in mechatronic systems, such as identification, control gains and o...

This paper presents a modification of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) technique based on cooperative behavior of swarms and learning ability of an automaton. The approach is called Cooperative Particle Swarm Optimization based on Learning Automata (CPSOLA). The CPSOLA algorithm utilizes three layers of cooperation which are intra swarm, inter swarm and inter population. There are two active p...