Pulse-width modulated (PWM) adjustable frequency drives (AFDs) are extensively used in industries for control of induction motors. It has led to significant advantages in terms of the performance, size, and efficiency but the output voltage waveform no longer remains sinusoidal. Hence, overshoots, high rate of rise, harmonics and transients are observed in the voltage wave. They increase voltag...

This paper is concerned with the problem of design and implementation a robust adaptive control strategy for flexible joint electrically driven robots (FJEDR), while considering to the constraints on the actuator voltage input. The control design procedure is based on function approximation technique, to avoid saturation besides being robust against both structured and unstructured uncertaintie...

An important problem to be addressed within Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) is how to correctly and efficiently capture and process the event/action-based logic. This paper endeavors to bridge the gap between the Knowledge Representation (KR) approaches based on durable events/actions and such formalisms as event calculus, on one hand, and event-condition-action (ECA) reaction rules extending t...

The applications of time series modeling and statistical similarity methods to structural health monitoring (SHM) provide promising and capable approaches to structural damage detection. The main aim of this article is to propose an efficient univariate similarity method named as Kullback similarity (KS) for identifying the location of damage and estimating the level of damage severity. An impr...

An extension of the Adaboost algorithm is proposed for obtaining fuzzy rule based classifiers from imprecisely perceived data. Isolated fuzzy rules are regarded as weak learners, and knowledge bases as ensembles. Rules are iteratively added to a base, and the search of the best rule at each iteration is carried out by a genetic algorithm driven by a fuzzy fitness function. The successive weight...

The growth of biomedical databases has seen a demand for data mining techniques to efficiently and effectively analyse the data contained within. One important consideration is the need to include expert’s opinions within the knowledge discovery process. However, this can be difficult to accomplish when such heuristics are presented in loosely defined, fuzzy terms. We present the use of an Adap...