In this study, an adaptive fuzzy sliding-mode control (AFSMC) system is adopted to control the position of an induction servo motor. The AFSMC system comprises the fuzzy control design and the robust control design. In the fuzzy control design a fuzzy controller is designed to mimic an ideal control law. In the robust control design a robust controller is designed to compensate the approximatio...

A method of sliding mode control based on a fuzzy model identified through input output data is presented. In this approach the advantages of the sliding mode control technique are maintained, however parametric uncertainty and unmatched disturbance are acknowledged as limiting factors of controller performance and their effects are sought to be minirnised. Controller performance is compared wi...

Due to computational burden and dynamic uncertainty, the classical model-based control approaches are hard to be implemented in the multivariable robotic systems. In this paper, a model-free fuzzy sliding mode control based on neural network is proposed. In classical sliding mode controllers, system dynamics and system parameters are required to compute the equivalent control. In Radial Basis F...

To detect a ramp and guide a tracked robot to complete the ramp-climbing task in an unknown environment, four tracked robot control modes are proposed in this paper. The modes are the exploration mode, aligning mode, calculating the tilt angle mode, and climbing mode. This self-made tracked robot only equips with a Kinect depth sensor; unfortunately, the sensing depth data, in general, incorpor...

This paper presents a hybrid neuro-fuzzy methodology to identify appropriate global logistics (GL) operational modes used for global supply chain management. The proposed methodological framework includes three main developmental phases: (1) establishment of a GL strategic hierarchy, (2) formulation of GL-mode identification rules, and (3) development of a GL-mode choice model. By integrating a...

Recently, interest in microgrids, which are composed of distributed generation (DG), distributed storage (DS), and loads, has been growing as a potentially effective clean energy system to mitigate against climate change. The microgrid is operated in the grid-connected mode and the islanded mode according to the conditions of the upstream power grid. The role of the energy storage system (ESS) ...