Evolvable hardware (EHW) is a technique introduced to automatically design circuits where the circuit configuration is carried out by evolutionary algorithms. This paper shows that the evolutionary approach can discover the concept and learning behavior of the control systems. The system tested is a nonlinear pendulum. Experiments with different processes indicate that the gains obtained with e...

In order to achieve feasible and copacetic low energy consuming building, a robust and efficient air conditioning system is necessary. Since heating ventilation and air conditioning systems are nonlinear and temperature and humidity are coupled, application of conventional control is inappropriate. A multi-input multi-output nonlinear model is presented. The temperature and humidity of thermal ...

This paper presents a control oriented model development for waste heat recovery Rankine based control systems in heavy duty trucks. Waste heat recovery systems, such as Rankine cycle, are promising solutions to improve the fuel efficiency of heavy duty engines. Due to the highly transient operating conditions, improving the control strategy of those systems is an important step to their integr...

This paper considers the problem of a nonlinear H∞ design for a laboratory twin rotor system. This mechanical device features a highly nonlinear strongly coupled dynamics, which constitutes a challenge for many classical linear control techniques. The approach presented in this paper considers a nonlinear H∞ disturbance rejection procedure on the reduced dynamics of the rotors, including integr...

Adaptive robust control schemes are developed for the trajectory tracking control of robot manipulators. The schemes utilize a dynamic sliding mode and achieve a guaranteed transient performance and nal tracking accuracy in the presence of both parametric uncertainties and uncertain nonlinearities. In the absence of uncertain nonlinearities, the schemes also achieve asymptotic tracking. In addi...

This paper proposes a saturated nonlinear PID regulator for industrial robot manipulators. Our controller considers the natural saturation problem given by the output of the control computer, the saturation phenomena of the internal PI velocity controller in the servo driver, and the actuator torque constraints of the robot manipulator. An approach based on the singular perturbations method is ...

Temperature is a universe and significant data in production and scientific experiment, effective measurement and control of the temperature are widely applied in every part of national economy. Therefore, temperature control has great significance; relevant requirements regarding temperature control are also higher and higher. Temperature command system for animal house is a complex system wit...

This study investigates six degrees-of-freedom nonlinear tracking control of rigid spacecraft under external disturbances. We propose two nonlinear tracking controllers having disturbance attenuation ability, namely, a proportionalderivative (PD)-type H∞ state feedback controller and a proportional-integral-derivative (PID)-type H∞ state feedback controller. Both these controllers have positive...

This paper deals with the stability problem of discrete-time and discrete-value (discretized/quantized) control systems in a frequency domain. The discretized (stepwise) nonlinear characteristic on a grid pattern is partitioned into two sections: bounded and sectorial areas. First, by considering a sectorial area over a specified threshold, the robust stability condition for nonlinear discrete-...

Control of liquid level in the interacting nonlinear spherical tank due to the variation in the area of cross section with height is the basic problem in the industries. This paper presents the controlling of nonlinear interacting system using Skogestad PID controller. The system of two tanks is considered to be a second order system. Skogestad Proportional Integral Derivative Controller is bei...