In this paper, we study the robustness of a groupdelay-based method for determining the instants of significant excitation in speech signals. These instants correspond to the instants of glottal closure for voiced speech. The method uses the properties of the global phase characteristics of minimum phase signals. Robustness of the method against noise and distortion is due to the fact that the ...

This paper deals with a design problem of a continuous-time anti-windup generalized predictive control system using coprime factorization approach for nonminimum phase processes with input constraints. Based on the proposed design scheme, a condition for stability of the closed-loop system with input constraints and a straightforward method t.o improve the output response of the system with inp...

This paper describes the fundamental principles of launch vehicle flight control analysis and design. In particular, the classical concept of “drift-minimum” and “load-minimum” control principles is re-examined and its performance and stability robustness with respect to modeling uncertainties and a gimbal angle constraint is discussed. It is shown that an additional feedback of angle-of-attack...

In this paper, we investigate the spatial distribution of solar flares in the northern and southern hemisphere of the Sun that occurred during the period 1996 to 2003. This period of investigation includes the ascending phase, the maximum and part of descending phase of solar cycle 23. It is revealed that the flare activity during this cycle is low compared to previous solar cycle, indicating t...

This paper presents an Internal Model Control (IMC) structure designed for a class of continuous linear underactuated systems. The study treats the case of Minimum Phase (MP) systems and those whose zero dynamics are not necessarily stable. The proposed IMC structure is based on a specific controller which is obtained by the realization of an approximate inverse of the model plant. It is shown ...

The paper discusses State Space Blind Source Recovery (BSR) for minimum phase and non-minimum phase mixtures of gaussian and non-gaussian distributions. The State Space Natural Gradient approach results in compact iterative update laws for BSR. Two separate state space algorithms for minimum phase and non-minimum phase mixing environments are presented. The advantages and disadvantages of both ...

In the following paper we investigate two algorithms for blind signal deconvolution that has been proposed in the literature. We derive a clear interpretation of the information theoretic objective function in terms of signal processing and show that only one is appropriate to solve the deconvolution problem, while the other will only work if the unknown filter is constrained to be minimum phas...