As micro-device application in consumer and commercial products develops, efficient tools are required to simulate device dynamics and assess structural performance. An integrated methodology is developed for studying the dynamics of thin film bifurcating structures. Results are presented for a generic thin film structure, which exhibit classical electro-mechanical hysteresis. Such structures c...

Policies for the joint identification and control of uncertain systems are presented. The discussion focuses on the case of a multiple input, single output linear system, with no dynamics and quadratic cost, and system parameters assumed to have a known Gaussian distribution. Extensions for multiple output, and for finite impulse response systems are straightforward. The policies proposed are h...

Mini and micro robots, which can swim in an underwater environment, have drawn widespread research interests because of their potential applications to the clinical drug delivery, biotechnology, manufacturing, mobile sensor networks, etc. In this paper, a prototype of microrobot based on the motion principle of living microorganisms such as E. Coli Bacteria is presented. The properties of this ...

The project "Econometric Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamic Models with Applications in International Macroeconomics" was an ESRC-funded project (reference number: R00235524) carried out in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge and in the Department of Economics at the University of Leicester over the period 1/09/95 31/08/98. In what follows, we describe the aims of the ...

This paper is concerned with the problem of synchronization for complex dynamic networks with state and coupling time-delays. Therefore, larger class and more complicated complex dynamic networks can be considered for the synchronization problem. Based on the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, a delay-independent criterion is obtained and formulated in the form of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs)...