For a bilingual human, every utterance requires a choice about which language to use. This choice is commonly regarded as part of general executive control, engaging prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortices similarly to many types of effortful task switching. However, although language control within artificial switching paradigms has been heavily studied, the neurobiology of natural switchin...

Bilingual language production is widely believed to be a competitive process. Bilinguals may manage this competition by relying on inhibiting one language while speaking in the other. However, it remains unclear if this process relies on domain general inhibitory mechanisms, and, if so, when and where during language production inhibitory control is applied. The current study investigates these...

This paper presents new results on switching control using neural networks. Given a set of candidate controllers, a pair of neural networks is trained to identify the stability region and estimate the closed-loop performance for each controller. The neural network outputs are used in the on-line switching rule to select the controller output to be applied to the system during each control perio...

Reliability is one of the fundamental considerations in the design of industrial control equipment. The microprocessor-based Hybrid Duplex fault-tolerant System (HDS) proposed in this paper has high reliability to meet this demand although its hardware structure is simple. The hardware configuration of HDS and the fault tolerance of this system are described. The switching control strategies in...

We propose a novel switching control law for the posture stabilization of a wheeled mobile robot, that utilizes the (energetic) passivity of the system's open-loop dynamics with non-negligible inertial effects. The proposed passivity-based switching control law ensures that the robot's (x, y)-position enters into an arbitrarily small (as speci ed by user-designed error-bound) level set of a cer...

Abstract: Discrete event systems involving synchronization and delay phenomena can be described by a linear state representation over (max,+) algebra. Some discrete event systems involving choice phenomena could be transformed, under some conditions, into switching max-plus linear systems modeled as automata. The switching between states of these automata is governed by a switching variable. Th...

Multi-mode switching between controllers corresponding to different modes of operation is needed in those cases when the transition from one mode to another results in substantial flight-critical variations in the aircraft dynamics. To address this problem, a general framework for multi-modal flight control is proposed. The framework is based on the Multiple Models, Switching and Tuning (MMST) ...

The problem of robust output-feedback control for a class of uncertain switching fuzzy control systems is investigated. Asymptotic stability of the observer, based on the error equation, is obtained by using the switching technique and the common Lyapunov function method. Switching laws are also designed via using single Lyapunov function method for observer equation such that the closed-loop s...