In a flight controller, latency can be defined as the time delay between when the sensor data is collected and the corresponding control command is executed. Latency exists in all real world systems. Although its effects can be negligible under certain operating conditions, the time delay in a system can ultimately create an upper limit on the performance of a controller. The latency problem ha...

Heat exchangers are devices whose primary responsibility is the transfer (exchange) of heat, typically from one fluid to another. However, they are not only used in heating applications, such as space heaters, but are also used in cooling applications, such as refrigerators and air conditioners. Heat exchange processes often contain time-delay. This paper deals with design of universal and robu...

In this paper, we present an Adaptive Posicast Controller that deals with parametric uncertainties in linear systems with delays. It is assumed that the plant has no right half plane zeros and the delay is known. The adaptive controller is based on the Smith Predictor and Finite-Spectrum Assignment with time-varying parameters adjusted online. A novel Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is used to s...

A Generalized Minimum Variance control law is derived for the control of nonlinear, possibly time-varying multivariable systems. The solution for the control law is original and was obtained in the time-domain using a simple operator representation of the process. The quadratic cost index involves both error and control signal costing terms. The controller obtained is simple to implement and in...

In this paper a modified Smith predictor for linear delayed haptic interaction is presented. The objective is to design a feedback law which compensates the time delay by its somehow elimination from the characteristic equation of the closed loop system. This method is robust within a certain safe prediction interval. The applicability of Smith predictor in the case of haptic interaction using ...

An approach to control integrating processes with elevated deadtime using a Smith predictor sliding mode controller is presented. A PID sliding surface and an integrating first-order plus deadtime model have been used to synthesize the controller. Since the performance of existing controllers with a Smith predictor decrease in the presence of modeling errors, this paper presents a simple approa...