this paper employs nonlinear disturbance observer (ndo) for robust trajectory-free nonlinear model predictive control (nmpc) of biped robots. the ndo is used to reject the additive disturbances caused by parameter uncertainties, unmodeled dynamics, joints friction, and external slow-varying forces acting on the biped robots. in contrary to the slow-varying disturbances, handling sudden pushing ...

the control of car following is essential due to its safety and its operational efficiency. for this purpose, this paper builds a model of car following behavior based on armax structure from a real traffic dataset and design a model predictive control (mpc) system. based on the relative distance and relative acceleration of each instant, the mpc predicts the future behavior of the leader vehic...

capital asset pricing model (capm) has been among the common models to estimate expected returns rate. since the linearity assumption is considered in the standard version of the capital asset pricing model, estimating beta in nonlinear setting will be inconsistent and bias-oriented. therefore, this study tries to evaluate predictive power of nonlinear capital asset pricing model as well as sta...

conclusions herein we have described the stata package “adpredsurv” for calculation of the nam-d’agostino x2 goodness of fit test as well as cut point-free and cut point-based nri, relative and absolute idi, and survival-based regression analyses. we hope this work encourages the use of novel methods in examining predictive capacity of the emerging plethora of novel biomarkers. background a fun...

an adaptive version of growing and pruning rbf neural network has been used to predict the system output and implement linear model-based predictive controller (lmpc) and non-linear model-based predictive controller (nmpc) strategies. a radial-basis neural network with growing and pruning capabilities is introduced to carry out on-line model identification.an unscented kalman filter (ukf) algor...

wind energy today, has attracted widespread interest from among a variety of sources of renewable energy in the world. owing to the increasing demand for production of electrical energy for electricity networks by using wind power, it is essential that wind power plants are actively incorporated in the network’s performance using an appropriate control system. in general, these wind power plant...