A closed-loop drug delivery system is constructed in which external negative feedback is used to regulate the dynamics of a time-delayed negative feedback mechanism which regulates hormone concentration. This results in a control system composed of two time-delayed negative feedback loops arranged in parallel. Stability regions in parameter space and the location of steady states are determined...

A hybrid indirect and direct adaptive fuzzy output tracking control schemes are developed for a class of nonlinear multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This hybrid control system consists of observer and other different control components. Using the state observer, it does not require the system states to be available for measurement. Assisted by observer-based state feedback control ...

results providing and receiving peer feedback was easy to do, without interruption in daily workflow. the system can be used among the three hospital locations of the healthcare group. it was easy to retrieve and demonstrate cases for group discussion and analysis. a side effect was that the feedback project helped to demonstrate to external stakeholder that the radiologists are eager to work o...

A small-gain theorem is presented for almost global stability of monotone control systems which are open-loop almost globally stable, when constant inputs are applied. The theorem assumes “negative feedback” interconnections. This typically destroys the monotonicity of the original flow and potentially destabilizes the resulting closed-loop system.

in this paper, control of a non-isothermal continuous stirred tank reactor in which two parallel autocatalytic reactions take place has been addressed. the reactor shows chaotic behavior for a certain set of reactor parameters. in order to control the product concentration, an optimal state feedback controller has been designed. since concentrations of reactor species are not measured, an obser...

An effective wide band active control law through one kind of the Dynamic Vibration Absorber (DVA) is proposed and studied in this paper. With the help of mechanical impedance method, active DVA control law is formulated based on the passive mechanical model. The electrical DVA can generate multi-mode active damping to the structure. The host structure is an aluminum plate and acceleration sign...

A discussion about the different ways of embedding fuzzy logic in control applications is presented. This includes from classical control loops to systems with higher degree of autonomy, from supervision systems to decision and diagnosis. The presentation is accompanied by illustrative examples of applied projects. classical control system, including its main components. The process is the syst...

in this paper, an adaptive fuzzy control scheme is proposed for a class of perturbed strict-feedback nonlinear systems with unknown discrete and distributed time-varying delays, and the proposed design method does not require a priori knowledge of the signs of the control gains.based on the backstepping technique, the adaptive fuzzy controller is constructed. the main contributions of the paper...

a fault-tolerant control (ftc) methodology has been presented for nonlinear processes being imposed by control input constraints. the proposed methodology uses a combination of feedback linearization and model predictive control (flmpc) schemes. the resulting constraints in the transformed process will be dependent on the actual evolving states, making their incorporation in the design context ...