So far, researchers have developed simplified models to control the so called Acurex field, which is a solar power plant situated in Tabernas in Spain, used mainly for research purposes. Most of these simplified models for control have been used in simulation. Some have also been used in control experiments. Usually an advanced model of the plant was used to identify and verify the simplified m...

It is known that at the event scale, evaporation losses of rainfall intercepted by canopy are a few millimeters, which often not much in comparison to other stocks water balance. Nevertheless, yearly number times filled and then depleted can be so large interception flux may become an important fraction rainfall. Many accurate models describe wet have been proposed. However, they require parame...

The suspension footbridges are very flexible due to their geometrical structure; hence they may face severe vibration problems induced mainly by natural forces and pedestrians crossing. By exceeding a certain limit, these vibrations can disturb the serviceability of the bridge as well as health and safety of the structure and pedestrians. Therefore, standard design guidelines are sets of recomm...

Safe control of a physical system requires the ability to both detect and avoid dangerous situations, while striving to achieve performance goals. State-of-the-art controllers still tend to rely heavily on classical control theory with feedback, occasionally with some limited use of associational-reasoning (expert systems) to help detect threatening situations and recall standard recovery proce...