Parrot Mambo mini-drone is a readily available commercial quadrotor platform to understand and analyze the behavior of both in indoor outdoor applications. This study evaluates performance three alternative controllers on an interior environment, including Proportional–Integral–Derivative (PID), Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), Model Predictive Control (MPC). To investigate controllers’ perfor...

This work attempts to achieve motion control along with vibration suppression of flexible systems by developing a sensorless closed loop LQR controller. Vibration suppression is used as a performance index that has to be minimized so that motion control is achieved with zero residual vibration. An estimation algorithm is combined with the regular LQR to develop sensorless motion and vibration c...

The aim of this work is to obtain optimal-order error estimates for the LQR (Linear-quadratic regulator) problem in a strongly damped 1-D wave equation. We consider a finite element discretization of the system dynamics and a control law constant in the spatial dimension, which is studied in both point and distributed case. To solve the LQR problem, we seek a feedback control which depends on t...

The paper presents a fuzzy control based on parallel distributed fuzzy controllers for a heat exchanger. Each subcontroller is LQR designed and provides local optimal solutions. First, a Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy model is employed to represent a system. The stability of the system with the proposed fuzzy controllers is discussed. The simulation results are compared with classical PID control and illu...

Nowadays, the doubly-fed induction generators (DFIGs) based wind turbines (WTs) are the dominant type of WTs connected to grid. Traditionally the back-to-back converters are used to control the DFIGs. In this paper, an Indirect Matrix Converter (IMC) is proposed to control the generator. Compared with back-to-back converters, IMCs have numerous advantages such as: higher level of robustness, re...