A model reference adaptive control of condenser and deaerator of steam power plant is presented. A fuzzy-neural identification is constructed as an integral part of the fuzzy-neural controller. Both forward and inverse identification is presented. In the controller implementation, the indirect controller with propagating the error through the fuzzy-neural identifier based on Back Propagating Th...

This paper presents a new evolutionary computing method for the design of robust PID controller with two degrees of freedom (2DOF PID controller). Since the objective plants have a time-delay element and parametric uncertainties, the design problem is formulated as a multi-objective minimax optimization problem. Therefore the high-performed optimization method is required. The proposed evolutio...

In this paper, we present a high order sliding mode controller of a DC motor drive connected to a multi-cellular converter. More specifically, we design a second order (super twisting) control algorithm for the speed regulation of a DC motor. For this, a switching control for the multi-cellular converter is derived in order to supply the correct reference value for the speed regulation. A pract...

The next stage for robotics development is to introduce autonomy and cooperation with human agents in tasks that require high levels of precision and/or exert considerable physical strain. To guarantee the highest possible safety standards, best approach devise a deterministic automaton performs identically each operation. Clearly, such inevitably fails adapt itself changing environments or dif...

A hierarchical robot navigation system has been developed and implemented on a range of real and simulated mobile robots for two independent research applications. One application is a study on emotion-modulated navigation. The other is an investigation of heterogeneous multi-robot navigation. The navigation framework shared by the various implementations is described. A multi-layered architect...

A digital signal processor (DSP) solution is proposed to control an H-bridge DC-DC isolated output power converter. The multiple mode digital controller is evaluated with an existing Westinghouse 1-kW power stage. The digital controller was developed using the dSPACE [1] rapid prototype development system and MATLAB/Simulink. It is evaluated using a real-time digital control development platfor...

This paper addresses a broadcast control problem of multi-agent systems with quantized measurements, where each agent moves based on the common broadcasted signal and tries to minimize a given quadratic performance index. The problem is solved by introducing dither type random movements to the agents’ action which reduce the degradation caused by quantized measurements. A broadcast controller i...