homogenous charge compression ignition (hcci) engines hold promise of high fuel efficiency and low emission levels for future green vehicles. but in contrast to gasoline and diesel engines, hcci engines suffer from lack of having direct means to initiate combustion. a combustion timing controller with robust tracking performance is the key requirement to leverage hcci application in production ...

in this paper, we investigated the necessity and effects of optimal control methods in the stability and performance of a micro-grid that operates in islanded mode. the micro-gird is consisted of a combine heat and power (chp), a capacitor bank (cb), photovoltaic panel (pv) as power generation sources. in addition, battery and the building electricity and thermal load are placed on the load sid...

the aim of this paper is to introduce a new approach for obtaining the numerical solution of singulary perturbed boundary value problems based on an optimal control technique. in the proposed method, first the mentioned equations are converted to an optimal control problem. then, control and state variables are approximated by chebychev series. therefore, the optimal control problem is reduced ...

economists were interested in economic stabilization policies as early as the 1930’s but the formal applications of stability theory from the classical control theory to economic analysis appeared in the early 1950’s when a number of control engineers actively collaborated with economists on economic stability and feedback mechanisms. the theory of optimal control resulting from the contributio...

abstract the use of water sources has increased due to extend of agricultural activity for answering food needs of increasing population. while because of exploitation and consumption of water, the use of this restricted resource is not appropriate. consequently in many districts of country the head level of ground water aquifers have been fallen and water level is negative. so, application of ...

this paper concerns a study on the optimal control for nonlinear systems. an appropriate alternative in order to alleviate the nonlinearity of a system is the exact linearization approach. in this fashion, the nonlinear system has been linearized using input-output feedback linearization (iofl). then, by utilizing the well developed optimal control theory of linear systems, the compensated nonl...

magnetorheological (mr) dampers have the advantage of being tuned by low voltages. this has attracted many researchers to develop semi-active control of structures in theory and practice. most of the control strategies first obtain the desired forces of dampers without taking their dynamics into consideration and then determine the input voltages according to those forces. as a result, these st...

this paper deals with optimal operation of a three-product dividing-wall column (dwc). the main idea is to design a control structure, through a systematic procedure for plantwide control, with an objective to achieve desired product purities with the minimum use of energy. exact local method is used to find the best controlled variables as single measurement or combination of measurements base...