a study was performed in hybrid up flow anaerobic sludge blanket (huasb) and anaerobic filter (af) reactors to compare the start-up time and optimum hrt required for the treatment of poultry slaughterhouse wastewater under similar loading conditions. initially, the reactors were started at an olr of 0.77 kg cod/m3.d and hrt of 36 h. loading rates were increased by reducing hrt 24, 16, 12, 10 an...

The backstepping control method provides useful control logic, especially for a cascaded system. Because spacecraft dynamics and kinematics form a cascaded system, the spacecraft slew maneuver problem can be solved using the backstepping control method. However, the simple linear backstepping controller may result in poor design: sluggish motion, trivial nonlinear term cancellation, and excessi...

Abstract: In this brief, a modification of Lagrangian networks given in (Xia Y., 2003) is presented. This modification improves the settling time of the convergence of Lagrangian networks to a stationary point; which is the optimal solution to the nonlinear convex programming problem with linear equality constraints. This is important because, in many real-time applications where Lagrangian net...

Settling behavior of the binary-weighted switched-capacitor digital-to-analog converter output is analyzed and a design method for fast settling is presented. A calibration circuit that effectively reduces settling time beyond the process limit is also proposed and verified with various simulations.

A method for shortening of the settling time in all digital phase-locked loops is proposed. The method utilizes self monitoring to obtain the parameters necessary for feed-forward compensation. Analysis shows that by employing this technique both fast settling and good stability can be achieved simultaneously. Matlab and Verilog-AMS simulation shows that typical settling speed can be reduced to...