In recent years, there have been two parallel research paths for developing advanced traffic signal systems. Real-time traffic adaptive system research, supported largely by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and smaller scale closed loop systems developed primarily by traffic signal system vendors. Simulation models have been developed for evaluating USDOT supported project...

Recovery of used products is receiving much attention recently due to growing environmental concerns.In this paper, we address the carbon footprint basedon problem arising in closed-loop supply chain where returned products are collected from customers. These returned products can either be disposed or be remanufactured to be sold as new ones again. Here, we formulate a comprehensive closed-loo...

This paper is concerned with the problem of designing discrete-time control systems with closed-loop eigenvalues in a prescribed region of stability. First, we obtain a state feedback matrix which assigns all the eigenvalues to zero, and then by elementary similarity operations we find a state feedback which assigns the eigenvalues inside a circle with center   and radius. This new algorithm ca...

high-precision three-axis attitude control scheme is vitally important to deal with the overactuated spacecraft, as long as the overall performance through rapid response can be in general acquired. due to the fact that the rigid-flexible spacecraft is somehow applicable, in so many academic and real environments, there is a consensus among experts of this field that the new insights in develop...

remanufacturing is an industrial process that makes used products reusable. remanufacturing is a way to establish a closed-loop supply chain. one of the important aspects in both reverse logistics and remanufacturing is pricing of returned and remanufactured products (called cores) that it has been noticed in this paper. in addition, in this paper the researchers have tried to present a mathema...

In this paper, a new analytical method to find a near-optimal high gain controller for the non-minimum phase affine nonlinear systems is introduced. This controller is derived based on the closed form solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation associated with the cheap control problem. This methodology employs an algebraic equation with parametric coefficients for the systems with s...

This paper uses prediction error identification to distinguish control-relevant system changes in closed-loop operation from variations in disturbance characteristics. The approach consists of a hypothesis test to verify whether an identified model of the true system lies in a set containing all models that exhibit adequate closed-loop performance. To increase the detection probability, i.e. th...

The recently-proposed method for iterative correlation-based controller tuning is considered in this paper for the tuning of multivariable Linear Time Invariant (LTI) controllers. The parameters of the controller are updated directly using the data acquired in closed-loop operation. This approach allows one to tune some elements of the controller transfer function matrix to satisfy the desired ...

The design of bug-free and safe medical device software is challenging, especially in complex implantable devices that control and actuate organs in unanticipated contexts. Safety recalls of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators between 1990 and 2000 affected over 600,000 devices. Of these, 200,000 or 41%, were due to firmware issues and their effect continues to increase in fr...