Access to online experiments permitted by the current technology offers more flexibility than local presence. However, it also presents new challenges, such as which information should be transfered from the process to the remote user to describe with sufficient details the progress of the experimentation, and from the user to the process to control it and to test interesting working conditions...

Databases have been proposed as the chosen platform to develop automated control systems for environments where the state of the system changes rapidly, and actions need to be taken with timing constraints, such as stock trading, air tra c control, network management and process control to name a few. The workload in such systems consist primarily of two types: (a) updates, which report the sta...

The paper analyzes some of Tesla's works and his most remarkable views concerning the problem of formulating theoretical bases of automatic control. As a tribute to Tesla's work on remote control of automated systems, as well to his (at the time) far-seeing visions, special attention is paid to solving complex problem of control and feedback application. A more detailed discussion of the way an...

In this paper the effect on energy consumption and pollution of fuzzy automatic control of a rotary kiln is investigated. The computer-based fuzzy control system is installed at the Larko ferronickel plant in Larymna, Greece, by the Danish firm F .L. Smidth & Co. A/S. Operation characteristics for the manual operation against automatic control are defined and compared. Preliminary results show ...

Gain and time-constant factors shift the inverse process relative to its feedback controller. A new robustness plot cross-graphs these shift factors that take the loop to the stability boundary as a function of frequency.

The estimation of the perceived tempo is required in many MIR applications. However, automatic tempo estimation itself is still an open problem due to the insufficient understanding of the inherent mechanisms of the tempo perception. Published methods only use the information of rhythm pattern, so they may meet the half/double tempo error problem. To solve this problem, We propose to use statis...

In this paper, we have developed the scoring system that scores short answers based on the score table updated by average scores of non-existing answers. The accuracy and the consistency are very important, because the score influences a life. Automatic mark systems have consistency but need more accuracy. In the paper and pencil, a consistency is difficult to maintain. To achieve accuracy and ...

Biped robots form a subclass of legged or walking robots. The study of mechanical legged motion has been motivated by its potential use as a means of locomotion in rough terrain, as well as its potential benefits to prothesis development and testing. This paper concentrates on issues related to the automatic control of biped robots. More precisely, its primary goal is to contribute a means to p...

This paper deals with the stabilization of a rotating body-beam system with torque control. The system we consider is the one studied by Baillieul and Levi in [1]. In [12] it has been proved by Xu and Baillieul that, for any constant angular velocity smaller than a critical one, this system can be stabilized by means of a feedback torque control law if there is damping. We prove that this resul...