In this paper, improved conditions for the synthesis of static state-feedback controller are derived to stabilize networked control systems (NCSs) subject to actuator saturation. Both of the data packet latency and dropout which deteriorate the performance of the closed-loop system are considered in the NCS model via variable delays. Two different techniques are employed to incorporate actuator...

In this paper, we investigate a closed-loop auditory model and explore its potential as a feature representation for speech recognition. The closed-loop representation consists of an auditory-based, efferent-inspired feedback mechanism that regulates the operating point of a filter bank, thus enabling it to dynamically adapt to changing background noise. With dynamic adaptation, the closed-loop...

The target-controlled infusion (TCI) technique has been successfully and commercially used in clinical general anaesthesia with the intravenous anaesthetic agent propofol. The technique is based on a population pharmacokinetic model and is an open-loop control system. Closed-loop control requires a reliable and consistent signal for feedback utilisation. With all anaesthetic agents the somatose...

The paper studies the problem of nonlinear feedback control design of non-isothermal Continuously Stirred Tank Reactors (CSTR). The objective is to construct a feedback controller such that a desired equilibrium of the closed-loop dynamic is asymptotically stable and such that the closed-loop vector field is a conservative vector field of a particular type, i.e., a gradient system. Properties o...

3 Classical closed-loop control 8 3.1 PID feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2 Transfer functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.3 Closed-loop stability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.4 Gain and phase margins and robustness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5 Sensitivity function and fundamental...

The H∞ control problem for linear discrete-time descriptor systems which are of high index and possibly non-regular is considered. The goal is to compute a descriptor feedback such that the closed loop system is stable, causal, and H∞ norm bounded by a prescibed real number. In a recent solution of this problem, where causality is established by a preliminary feedback and where stability and H∞...

Partial eigensystem assignment with output feedback can lead to an unstable closed-loop system. However, output feedback with passive linear time-invariant systems, such as flexible space structures, is guaranteed to be stable if the controller is dissipative. This paper presents a novel approach for synthesis of dissipative output feedback gain matrices for assigning a selected number of close...

We evaluate the performance of two control architectures applied to atomic force microscopes (AFM). Feedback-only control is a natural solution and has been applied widely. Expanding on that, combining feedback controllers with plant-injection feedforward filters has been shown to greatly improve tracking performance in AFMs. Alternatively, performance can also be improved by the use of a close...

We evaluate the performance of two control architectures applied to atomic force microscopes (AFM). Feedback-only control is a natural solution and has been applied widely. Expanding on that, combining feedback controllers with plant-injection feedforward filters has been shown to greatly improve tracking performance in AFMs. Alternatively, performance can also be improved by the use of a close...