A condition based preventive and corrective maintenance policy is proposed for a continuously operating system. The condition of the system is assumed to deteriorate with time. The model incorporates both deterioration as well as random common cause failures. The deterioration stages are modeled as discrete state processes. The system is put to random inspection to know the condition. The mean ...

A discrete-time, discrete-frequency Wigner distribution is derived using a group-theoretic approach. It is based upon a study of the Heisenberg group generated by the integers mod N , which represents the group of discrete-time and discrete-frequency shifts. The resulting Wigner distribution satis es several desired properties. An example demonstrates that it is a full-band time-frequency repre...

this paper presents a delay compensator fuzzy control for trajectory tracking of omni-directional mobile robots. fuzzy logic control (flc) of the robots is a suitable strategy for dealing with model uncertainties, nonlinearities and disturbances.  on the other hand, in many robotic applications such as mobile robots, delay phenomenon is able to substantially deteriorate the behavior of system's...

the arc costs are assumed to be online parameters of the network and decisions should be made while the costs of arcs are not known. the policies determine the permitted nodes and arcs to traverse and they are generally defined according to the departure nodes of the current policy nodes. in on-line created tours arc costs are not available for decision makers. the on-line traversed nodes are f...

We construct a controller to solve robust output tracking problem for a stable linear continuous-time periodic system on a finite-dimensional space. We begin by transforming the time-dependent plant to a time-invariant discrete-time system using the “lifting technique”. The controller is then designed to achieve robust output tracking for the lifted system. We show that an exact solution to the...

banking and financial services are important parts of the service industry. quality of service in the banking industry has a close relationship with customer satisfaction service system. banks could create competitive advantage by increasing customer satisfaction and reduce costs in today's competitive environment. this paper presents a decision-making model to obtain optimum tasks assigne...

In this paper, a probabilistic approach for estimating time and space-variant parameters of a system, based on sequentially received discrete-time signal values, is presented. The system description is the solution of a linear partial differential equation (PDE). The PDE describes for example the wave propagation of an acoustic wave in a localization system. The solution of the PDE is given by ...

A complete stability analysis is performed on a planar discrete-time system of the form ( +1) = sat( ( )), where is a Schur stable matrix and sat is the saturation function. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the system to be globally asymptotically stable are given. In the process of establishing these conditions, the behaviors of the trajectories are examined in detail.