This paper investigates the interaction of fast-scale and slow-scale bifurcations in the boost converter under current-mode control operating in continuous conduction mode. Effects of varying some chosen parameters on the qualitative behaviors of the system are studied in detail. Analysis is performed to identify the different types of bifurcation. Boundaries of stable region, slow-scale bifurc...

To reduce toxicity/treatment time and improve accuracy, intraoperative electron radiotherapy (IOERT) was used as an alternative to electron beam radiation therapy boost. Primary objective was to determine feasibility and acute toxicity. From August 2009 to June 2011, 50 patients (age 32 to 76 years) with in situ or invasive breast cancer (Stage 0 to IIIA) were treated. Toxicity assessed accord...

In this paper, non-integer order control is applied to improve the performance of a buck-boost dc-dc power converter with ultracapacitor based on state feedback techniques. The approach is based on stabilization in the Lyapunov's sense for linear rational-order systems. The ultracapacitor can overcome the classical problems of energy losses due to the use of batteries, giving more accuracy, aut...

DC-DC converters have been applied to industrial applications widely during the past few decades. With rapid development of technology, negative output (N/O) dc-dc converters play an important role in the industrial fields, such as regenerative braking system (RBS) of DC motors for hybrid electric vehicles, signal generator and data transmission interface, neutral point clamping power electroni...

Previous studies show that reading sentences about actions leads to specific motor activity associated with actually performing those actions. We investigate how sign language input may modulate motor activation, using British Sign Language (BSL) materials, some of which explicitly encode direction of motion, vs. written English, where motion is only implied. We find no evidence of action simul...

Robust controller designed by H∞ loop shaping is complicated and its order is much higher than that of the plant. It is not easy to implement this controller in practical engineering applications. To overcome this problem, we propose an algorithm, GA based fixed-structure H∞ loop shaping control, to design a robust controller. Genetic algorithm is used to solve the H∞ loop shaping design proble...