A finite-time attitude compensation control scheme is developed for an over-activated rigid spacecraft subject to actuator faults, misalignment, external disturbances and uncertain inertia parameters. The controller is synthesised based on the sliding mode control theory, and guarantees the finite-time reachability of the system states. A sufficient condition for the controller to accommodate m...

A method is proposed for calibrating the radius of a rotating coil sensor by relaxing the metrological constraints on alignment and field errors of the reference quadrupole. A coil radius calibration considering a roll-angle misalignment of the measurement bench, the magnet, and the motor-drive unit is analyzed. Then, the error arising from higher-order harmonic field imperfections in the refer...

Three word-spotting experiments assessed the role of syllable onsets and offsets in lexical segmentation. Participants detected CVC words embedded initially or finally in bisyllabic nonwords with aligned (CVC.CVC) or misaligned (CV.CCVC) syllabic structure. A misalignment between word and syllable onsets (Experiment 1) produced a greater perceptual cost than a misalignment between word and syll...

Electrostatic actuation is a promising approach to compensate for misalignment of bonded, multi-layered microsystem devices. The present work discusses the performance of electrostatic actuators used for in-plane misalignment compensation in an atom chip comprising an optical cavity. Experimental investigation revealed that the central frame suspending the mirrors can be moved between 3-5 m in ...

The strong inter-channel cross correlation between stereo received signals creates a problem of non-unique solutions for stereo echo cancellation. To avoid this problem, the addition of inaudible non-linearly filtered received signals to themselves was proposed. However, the convergence of misalignment is still slow even when the affine projection algorithm is used, since strong inter-channel c...