An automatic steering controller was installed on a Case-IH Model 7220 tractor. The primary posture sensor was a kinematic differential GPS. Open loop and closed loop frequency response tests were conducted to evaluate the steering controller dynamics. A double integrator transfer function adequately related vehicle lateral deviation to steering angle within the frequency range of 0.04 Hz to 0....

The consolidation of multiple workloads and servers enables the efficient use of server and power resources in shared resource pools. We employ a trace-based workload placement controller that uses historical information to periodically and proactively reassign workloads to servers subject to their quality of service objectives. A reactive migration controller is introduced that detects server ...

We present a technique that enables existing middleware to fairly manage mixed workloads: batch jobs and transactional applications. The technique leverages a generic application placement controller, which dynamically allocates compute resources to application instances. The controller works towards a fairness goal while also trying to maximize individual workload performance. We use relative ...

The consolidation of multiple workloads and servers enables the efficient use of server and power resources in shared resource pools. We employ a trace-based workload placement controller that uses historical information to periodically and proactively reassign workloads to servers subject to their quality of service objectives. A reactive migration controller is introduced that detects server ...

Two controllers which extend the PD+I fuzzy logic controller to deal with the plant having time varying nonlinear dynamics are proposed. The adaptation ability of the first self tuning PD+I fuzzy logic controller (STPD+I_31) is achieved by adjusting the output scaling factor automatically thereby contributing to significant improvement in performance. Second controller (STPD+I_9) is the simplif...

The paper presents the derivation of a new robust multivariable adaptive controller, which minimises a cost function, incorporating system input, system output and set point. It provides an adaptive mechanism which ensures that both the closed-loop poles and zeros are placed at their pre-specified positions. The proposed design overcomes the shortcomings of other pole placement designs by combi...

Paper deals with implementation of self-tuning digital PID controller on general-purpose 8-bit Freescale 68HC908GB60 microcontroller which is a part of development board M68EVB908GB60 by Axiom Manufacturing. The process is identified using modified recursive least squares method with adaptive directional forgetting resulting in δ-model representation of controlled plant. This representation was...

In this paper, the synthesis of an Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI)-based stable fuzzy control system with pole-placement constraint is presented. The requirements of stability and pole-placement region are formulated based on the Lyapunov direct method. By recasting these constraints into LMIs, we formulate an LMI feasibility problem for the design of the fuzzy state feedback control system that...

In this paper a new approach is proposed to design locally optimal robust output-feedback controllers. It is iterative by nature, and starting from any initial feasible controller it performs local optimization over a suitably defined non-convex function at each iteration. The approach features the properties of computational efficiency, guaranteed convergence to a local optimum, and applicabil...

This paper compares the control performance of a distributed control system with variable sampling to actuation delay when using two different control solutions. The first one is a pole-placement controller with a fuzzy delay compensator and the second one an adaptive pole-placement with fractional dead-time modelling. The delay compensator is added to an existing controller that does not take ...