The mini-project work undertaken by us involves the design & development of an automatic railway gate control and alarm system using Arduino. It has been noticed that a lot fatalities lives occur everyday due to manually operated rail gates. These happen mainly at places where road passes through city, locality or unmanned gates crossing zones. Currently, gatemen operate on assumption train...

To achieve the automation of blast furnace operation, an automatic control system for hot metal temperature (HMT) was developed. Nonlinear model predictive (NMPC) which predicts up to ten-hour-ahead HMT and calculates appropriate actions pulverized coal rate (PCR) constructed. Simulation validation showed that NMPC algorithm generates similar those by operators can be maintained within ±10 °C s...

Although learning of control policies from demonstrations has been thoroughly investigated in the literature, generalization of policies to new contexts still remains a challenge given that existing approaches exhibit limited performance when generalizing to new tasks. In this article, we propose two policy generalization approaches employed for generalizing motion-based force control policies ...

This paper shows the potential of a Lego© based low-cost commercial robotic platform for learning and testing prototypes in higher education and research. The overall setup aims to explain mobile robotic issues strongly related to several fields such as Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automatic Control theory. The capabilities and limitations of LEGO© robots are studied within two projects. The fir...

The application of a dual relay feedback approach towards the identification of frictional effects in servo-mechanisms will be presented in this paper. The friction model, thus identified, will consist of Coulomb (including possibly directional Coulomb or load bias) and viscous friction components, both of which can be automatically extracted from suitably designed relay experiments. At the sam...

It has been more than 15 years since digital computers were introduced for process control. Digital control systems have evolved from systems such as the IBM 1710 and 1800 to special controllers that use microprocessors. The hardware cost has dropped considerably, yet the cost of installing computer control systems in sensor based applications has remained relatively high. This is partly ...

In this paper, the problem of robust stabilization and robust disturbance attenuation is investigated for systems with linear nominal parts and norm-bounded nonlinear uncertainties on both states and control inputs. It is shown that the type of nonlinear uncertainty sets considered in this paper has an equivalent representation by linear uncertainty sets. Based on this key result and some stand...

The arrival of the era of third-generation (3G) mobile phone will cause earth-shaking changes, as a kind of new communication technologies will play in the fields of estimation. The rapid development of electronic technology and information technology, which had brought about a revolution of control and management of agricultural, mobile 3G era will give the agricultural revolution fueled, and ...