farmers are now more interested in application of weed control methods and tools with less environmental side effects. flame weeding using propane gas is an approach with almost no any chemical residue on the soil and plant surfaces or underground water. in this research, a flame weeding machine with the ability of uniform and also discrete flaming was developed and evaluated in laboratory and ...

this paper deals with the problem of forbidden states in discrete event systems modeled by petri net. to avoid the forbidden states, some constraints which are called generalized mutual exclusion constraints can be assigned to them. enforcing these constraints on the system can be performed using control places. however, when the number of these constraints is large, a large number of control p...

Discrete variational mechanics: A formulation of mechanics in discrete-time that is based on a discrete analogue of Hamilton’s principle, which states that the system takes a trajectory for which the action integral is stationary. Geometric integrator: A numerical method for obtaining numerical solutions of differential equations that preserves geometric properties of the continuous flow, such ...

This paper develops numerical methods for optimal control of mechanical systems in the Lagrangian setting. It extends the theory of discrete mechanics to enable the solutions of optimal control problems through the discretization of variational principles. The key point is to solve the optimal control problem as a variational integrator of a specially constructed higher-dimensional system. The ...

Dean of the Graduate College ii PREFACE The methodology of variable structure with sliding mode is proven to be very successful in controlling uncertain continuous-time dynamical systems. When the system is sampled or purely discrete, the invariance property of sliding mode, which is originally a continuous-time concept, no longer hold and the reaching condition has to be modiied to allow a pse...

Successful completion of collaborations is necessary for collaborating participants to achieve their prescribed collaboration purposes. In this paper, we address the problem of successful completion of collaborations under a new model, called collaborative resource model. This model is graph-based, allowing participants to describe different ways to contribute and require resources for collabor...

Supervisory control and fault diagnosis of hybrid systems need to have complete information about the discrete states transitions of the underling system. From this point of view, the hybrid system should be abstracted to a Discrete Trace Transition System (DTTS) and represented by a discrete mode transition graph. In this paper an effective method is proposed for generating discrete mode trans...