MEMS gyroscopes are used to detect rotation rates and have enabled a variety of motionbased technologies in a range of industries. They are composed of micro-machined polysilicon structures that resonate and deflect when a rotation is experienced. The topic of this thesis surrounds a system architecture to optimize the performance of a gyroscope. The MEMS gyroscope contains a resonator and an a...

Sliding mode controller is applied to an ABS system in this paper. A mathematical model is used for controller design and evaluation. Finally, the proposed control action is compared with that of a bang-bang controller. Simulation results reveal the effectiveness of the proposed sliding mode controller. Key-Words: sliding mode control, ABS, slip, bang –bang control.

Nuclear spins support long lived quantum coherence due to weak coupling to the environment, but are difficult to rapidly control using nuclear magnetic resonance as a result of the small nuclear magnetic moment. We demonstrate a fast ∼500  ns nuclear spin phase gate on a (14)N nuclear spin qubit intrinsic to a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond. The phase gate is enabled by the hyperfine intera...

We consider Euler discretizations to a class of linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Assuming that the discrete controls are of bang-bang type and define switching functions with a uniform structure independent of the discretization we show, that the discrete controls converge to a bang-bang control, which is a solution of the original problem.

In this paper we give sufficient conditions for a bang-bang regular extremal to be a strong local optimum for a control problem in the Mayer form; strong means that we consider the C0 topology in the state space. The controls appear linearly and take values in a polyhedron, and the state space and the end point constraints are finite-dimensional smooth manifolds. In the case of bang-bang extrem...

To date there have been great advances in the legged robotics community. However, these platforms are extremely costly to develop and require complex controllers perform agile motion, limiting their research well funded institutions, or purely simulation based studies. This focuses on an low cost robotic monopod platform that consists of a high powered servo motor as pneumatic actuator. Due on/...

A large collection of financial contracts offering guaranteed minimum benefits are often posed as control prob4 lems, in which at any point in the solution domain, a control is able to take any one of an uncountable number of 5 values from the admissible set. Often, such contracts specify that the holder exerts control at a finite number of 6 deterministic times. The existence of an optimal ban...