Certain frequency-shaped standard linear quadratic (LQ) controllers involving state feedback have attractive loop robustness properties. These robustness properties may vanish in passing to an output feedback scheme, as when state estimates are used instead of states. The known exception to date is when the plants are minimum phase and state estimation with loop recovery is used, as in LQG/LTR ...

BACKGROUND: Lovastatin is known to inhibit its own synthesis in the fungus Aspergillus terreus. Therefore, the use of a fermentation strategy that continuously removes some of the lovastatin produced from the bioreactor can enhance its productivity. This paper reports on the effects of dilution rate and the composition of the feed medium on lovastatin production by A. terreus. RESULTS: The feed...

Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras gain depth information by emitting amplitude-modulated near-infrared light and measuring the phase shift between the emitted and the reflected signal. The phase shift is proportional to the object’s distance modulo the wavelength of the modulation frequency. This results in a distance ambiguity. Distances larger than the wavelength are wrapped into the sensor’s non-...

Vahabi S1, Ghafarzade M2, Lorzade N2, Moradkhani MR1, Frazan B1, Geranghadr P3 1. Assistant professor, Department of anesthesiology, Faculty of medicine, Lorestan University of medical sciences 2. Assistant professor, Department of gynecology, Faculty of medicine, Lorestan University of medical sciences 3. General practitioner Abstract Background: Postoperative nausea, vomiting (P...

We show that an adaptive input/output feedback linearization control scheme for minimum phase nonlinear systems is robust with respect to unstructured plant uncertainties that include such as unmodeled dynamics and disturbances, provided the adaptive law is modiied in the same fashion as for linear systems, and the plant nonlinearities satisses some growth constraints. In the analysis we utiliz...

If there was a first-order phase transition in the early universe, there should be an associated stochastic background of gravitational waves. In this paper, we point out that the characteristic frequency of the spectrum due to phase transitions which took place in the temperature range 100 GeV–107 GeV is precisely in the window that will be probed by the second generation of space-based interf...

The automatic binarization of grey level images or the automatic determination of optimum threshold value that separates objects from their background is still a difficult and challenging problem in many applications in the area of digital image processing. A new algorithm is proposed for the optimum automatic thresholding of digital images. The algorithm is based on determining the best thresh...

In this paper, we classify a type of abstract groups by the central products of dihedral groups and quaternion groups. We recognize them as abstract error groups which are often not isomorphic to the Pauli groups in the literature. We show the corresponding nice error bases equivalent to the Pauli error bases modulo phase factors. The extension of these abstract groups by the symmetric group ar...

A two-part control system is designed for flight path angle command tracking that includes an adaptive control component to reduce maneuver load. The primary controller is nonadaptive and facilitates the tracking goal. The secondary controller is adaptive and is tasked only with reducing the maneuver load resulting from the tracking objective. It is designed to function in addition to the prima...

Guannan Liu, ∗ Adam Patch, ∗ Fatmagül Bahar, ∗ David Yllanes, 4, ∗ Roy D. Welch, M. Cristina Marchetti, Shashi Thutupalli, † and Joshua W. Shaevitz ‡ Joseph Henry Laboratories of Physics and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Department of Physics and Soft Matter Program, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA Department of Biol...