‎Lindley distribution has received considerable attention in the statistical literature due to its simplicity‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we consider the problem of predicting the failure times of experimental units that are censored in a right-censored sample‎‎ when the underlying lifetime is Lindley distributed‎. ‎The maximum likelihood predictor‎, ‎the Bes...

This paper deals with almost sure and moment exponential stability of a class of predictorcorrector methods applied to the stochastic differential equations of Itô-type. Stability criteria for this type of methods are derived. The methods are shown to maintain almost sure and moment exponential stability for all sufficiently small timesteps under appropriate conditions. A numerical experiment f...

The paper proposes a paradigm for control design suitable for poorly modeled plants with signi cant dead time An adaptive dead time compensator is developed which is substantially dif ferent to the standard Smith predictor and more generally applicable in practice A framework is developed for selecting the controller parameters using now stan dard design techniques such as synthesis It is argue...

This research creates a design methodology by synthesizing the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) and cascade control based on Smith predictor. The particleboard glue supplying and dosing system case study defines the problem and the solution using the methodology proposed in the paper. Status difference existing in the gluing dosing process of particleboard production usually causes gl...

In the ice cream industry, the type of final desired product (large cartons (sqrounds) or ice creams on a stick) determine the viscosity at which the ice cream has to be produced. One of the objectives of the ice cream crystallization processes is therefore to produce an ice cream of specified viscosity. In this paper, a nonlinear control strategy is proposed for the control of the viscosity of...

A modified predictor-corrector algorithm is presented. This algorithm obtains a pre-specified point on the primal-dual central-path. It is shown to be suitable for a recently proposed class of receding horizon control laws which include a recentred barrier in the cost function. The significance of these controllers is that hard constraints are replaced by penalty type soft constraints, which ha...

We propose a continuous linear multistep method of order six using interpolation and collocation of power series approximant. The derived implicit scheme was implemented in predictor corrector mode in which the predictors are developed using block method. The basic properties of the derived scheme were investigated. Our method was found to compare favourably with the existing method when tested...

This Paper shows the synthesis of Sliding Mode Controller using model predictive structure of the process. The Smith predictor architecture is combined with the Sliding mode control theory. Two different linear models, with deadtime, are simulated and the performance of the controller is evaluated.

In this paper, we present a Branch Target Buuer (BTB) design for energy savings in set-associative instruction caches. We extend the functionality of a BTB by caching way predictions in addition to branch target addresses. Way prediction and branch target prediction are done in parallel. Instruction cache energy savings are achieved by accessing one cache way if the way prediction for a fetch i...