Journal Papers

Recently, there has been a great interest in the application of Lyapunov exponents for calculation of chaos levels in dynamical systems. Accordingly, this study aims at presenting two new methods for utilizing Lyapunov exponents to evaluate the spatiotemporal chaos in various images. Further, early detection of cancerous tumors could be obtained by measuring the chaotic indices in biomedical images. Unlike the available systems described by partial differential equations, the proposed method employs a number of interactive dynamic variables for image modeling. Since the Lyapunov exponents cannot be applied to such systems, the image model should be modified. The mean Lyapunov exponent is defined as a chaotic index for measuring the contour borders irregularities in images to detect benign or malignant tumors. Moreover, a two-dimensional mean Lyapunov exponent is incorporated to identify irregularities existing in each axis of the targeted images. Experiments on a set of region of interest in breast mammogram images yielded a sensitivity of 95 % and a specificity of 97.3 % and verified the remarkable precision of the proposed methods in classifying of breast lesions obtained from breast mammogram images.

Fault detection in non‐linear system has drawn a lot of attention recently. A typical solution is the generalization of linear methods to include non‐linear dynamics. This study addresses fault detection in non‐linear systems by extending parity relations using Takagi‐Sugeno (T.S) fuzzy models. Parity equations for linear systems are a residual generation method that has appealing capabilities in fault detection. T.S fuzzy systems are also extensively used in modelling of non‐linear systems. In this paper, parity equations are rewritten in the form of non‐linear systems that can be modelled by T.S fuzzy system. An advantage of this approach is that parity vector can be derived from relations explicitly. An algorithm is proposed to show how a residual can be generated in this manner. Simulation results on the fault detection of a mass‐spring‐damper system show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

This paper is concerned with robust identification of processes with time-varying time delays. In reality, the delay values do not simply change randomly, but there is a correlation between consecutive delays. In this paper, the correlation of time delay is modeled by the transition probability of a Markov chain. Furthermore, the measured data are often contaminated by outliers, and therefore, t-distribution is adopted to model the measurement noise. The variational Bayesian (VB) approach is applied to estimate the model parameters along with time delays. Compared with the classical expectation-maximization algorithm, VB approach has the advantage of capturing the uncertainty of the estimated parameter and time delays by providing their full probabilities. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by both a numerical example and a pilot-scale hybrid-tank experiment.

In this paper, a recurrent neural network coupled with Kalman filter is proposed to identify dynamic terms of robotic manipulator. By cooperating some inherent characteristics of robot, this network has the capability to individually identify nonlinear terms using Weighted Augmentation Error (WAE). To present the infrastructure of architecture, an adaptive scheme based on the conventional Back Propagation (BP) is firstly driven using the Gradient Descent (GD) method. Additionally, a stable adaptive updating rule is extracted from the discrete time Lyapunov candidate as an approach for the general nonlinear system identification. Then, this approach is applied to the predefined network. To experimentally validate the computational efficiency and control applicability of the proposed method, Adaptive Neural Network Based Inverse Dynamic Control (ANN-Based-IDC) is employed on a laboratory-scaled twin-rotor CE-150 helicopter. This experiment illustrates enhancement of steady-state performance from 2-to-3 times more in compared with simple PID. Moreover, disturbance rejection and robustness tests admit capability of the method for online dynamic identification in the presence of output and dynamic perturbation.

In this letter, we point out that the asymptotic convergence, claimed in Theorem 2, of the output residual and parameter estimation error after fault occurrence are guaranteed by the performance of the fault diagnosis observer is not quite right. The proof of the asymptotic convergence is contributed by Lemma 1 and negative semidefiniteness of the first difference of Lyapunov candidate function. Here, it is shown that utilizing Lemma 1 yields in some disputed points in the proof of Theorem 2. On the other hand, the proof of Theorem 2 is not mathematically correct. Therefore, the guarantee of the asymptotic convergence mentioned for FD observer in Theorem 2 is not realizable.

This paper investigates the problem of decentralized model reference adaptive control (MRAC) for a class of large-scale systems with time-varying delays in the interconnected terms and state and input delays. The upper bounds of interconnection terms with time- varying delays and external disturbances are assumed to be completely unknown. By integrators inclusion, a dynamic input delay compensator is established for input delay compensation and it is used as a practical method for state calculation x (t+ R). Also, a method is presented for a class of decentralized feedback controllers, which can evolve the closed-loop system error uniformly bounded stable. As a numerical example, the proposed technique is applied to an unstable open-loop system to show the feasibility and effectiveness of the method.

University ranking systems attempt to provide an ordinal gauge to make an expert evaluation of the university’s performance for a general audience. University rankings have always had their pros and cons in the higher education community. Some seriously question the usefulness, accuracy, and lack of consensus in ranking systems and therefore multidimensional ranking systems have been proposed to overcome some shortcomings of the earlier systems. Although the present ranking results may rather be rough, they are the only available sources that illustrate the complex university performance in a tangible format. Their relative accuracy has turned the ranking systems into an essential feature of the academic lifecycle within the foreseeable future. The main concern however, is that the present ranking systems totally neglect the ethical issues involved in university performances. Ethics should be a new dimension added into the university ranking systems, as it is an undisputable right of the public and all the parties involved in higher education to have an ethical evaluation of the university’s achievements. In this paper, to initiate ethical assessment and rankings, the main factors involved in the university performances are reviewed from an ethical perspective. Finally, a basic benchmarking model for university ethical performance is presented.

State estimation for a system with irregular rate and delayed measurements is studied using fusion Kalman filter. Lab data in process plants is usually more accurate compared to other measurements. However, it is often slow rate and subject to variable delay and irregularity in sampling time. Fast rate state estimation can be conducted using fast rate measurement, while the slow rate lab data can be used to improve the accuracy of estimation whenever it is available. For this purpose, two Kalman filters are used to estimate the states based on each type of measurement. The estimates are fused in the next step by considering the correlation between them. An iterative algorithm to obtain the cross-covariance matrix between the estimation errors of the two Kalman filters is presented and employed in the fusion process. The improvement on the accuracy of estimation and comparison with other optimal fusion state estimation techniques are discussed through a simulation example, a pilot-scale experiment and an industrial case study.

This paper considers the H 2 filtering problem for continuous-time descriptor systems by revisiting the H 2 performance and introducing the new formulation. Differing from previous results, recent note provides solvability conditions of the H 2 filtering problem with both the singular and the normal filters. The results are introduced as necessary and sufficient conditions for the singular filters and as sufficient conditions for the normal filters. These conditions are extracted without decomposing the original system matrices and are expressed in terms of strict linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). A numerical example with simulation results is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

A spatially-constrained clustering algorithm is presented in this paper. This algorithm is a distributed clustering approach to fine-tune the optimal distances between agents of the system to strengthen the data passing among them using a set of spatial constraints. In fact, this method will increase interconnectivity among agents and clusters, leading to improvement of the overall communicative functionality of the multi-robot system. This strategy will lead to the establishment of loosely-coupled connections among the clusters. These implicit interconnections will mobilize the clusters to receive and transmit information within the multi-agent system. In other words, this algorithm classifies each agent into the clusters with the lowest cost of local communication with its peers. This research demonstrates that the presented decentralized method will actually boost the communicative agility of the swarm by probabilistic proof of the acquired optimality. Hence, the common assumption regarding the full-knowledge of the agents’ primary locations has been fully relaxed compared to former methods. Consequently, the algorithm’s reliability and efficiency is confirmed. Furthermore, the method’s efficacy in passing information will improve the functionality of higher-level swarm operations, such as task assignment and swarm flocking. Analytical investigations and simulated accomplishments, corresponding to highly-populated swarms, prove the claimed efficiency and coherence.

This paper considers the robust H ∞ filtering problem for uncertain discrete-time descriptor systems. A class of uncertain systems with norm-bounded uncertainties is considered. The necessary and sufficient condition for solvability of the robust full-order H ∞ filtering is introduced which is generally less conservative than those existing sufficient conditions only. Explicit expressions of these filters are given. In addition to the full-order filtering problem, the robust reduced-order H ∞ filtering is also addressed by using slack variables technique in new sufficient conditions. The parameters of reduced-order filters are directly extracted from the solvability conditions. All the above conditions are convex and are expressed in term of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) by using the original system matrices. The results generalize the previously developed H ∞ filter design for standard discretetime systems. A numerical example is presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.

We consider a drift-flux model (DFM) describing multiphase (gas-liquid) flow during drilling. The DFM uses a specific slip law, which allows for transition between single and two phase flows. With this model, we design unscented Kalman filter (UKF) and extended Kalman filter (EKF) for the estimation of unmeasured state, production, and slip parameters using real-time measurements of the bottom-hole pressure, outlet pressure, and outlet flow rate. The OLGA high-fidelity simulator is used to create two scenarios from underbalanced drilling on which the estimators are tested: a pipe connection scenario and a scenario with a changing production index (PI). A performance comparison reveals that both UKF and EKF are capable of identifying the PIs of gas and oil from the reservoir into the well with acceptable accuracy, while the UKF is more accurate than the EKF. Robustness of the UKF and EKF for the pipe connection scenario is studied in case of uncertainties and errors in the reservoir and well parameters of the model. It is found that these methods are very sensitive to errors in the reservoir pore pressure value. However, they are robust in the presence of error in the liquid density value of the model.

The main goal of this paper is modelling attention while using it in efficient path planning of mobile robots. The key challenge in concurrently aiming these two goals is how to make an optimal, or near-optimal, decision in spite of time and processing power limitations, which inherently exist in a typical multi-sensor real-world robotic application. To efficiently recognise the environment under these two limitations, attention of an intelligent agent is controlled by employing the reinforcement learning framework. We propose an estimation method using estimated mixture-of-experts task and attention learning in perceptual space. An agent learns how to employ its sensory resources, and when to stop observing, by estimating its perceptual space. In this paper, static estimation of the state space in a learning task problem, which is examined in the WebotsTM simulator, is performed. Simulation results show that a robot learns how to achieve an optimal policy with a controlled cost by estimating the state space instead of continually updating sensory information.

Control performance assessment techniques are widely studied and many performance assessment indices have been proposed. In this paper, a control performance assessment technique for multi-loop control systems is presented based on the decision fusion strategy. Since decisions based on individual indices can lead to erroneous results, decision fusion of different indices can improve the assessment accuracy, especially in multi- loop control systems in the presence of loop interactions. Performance assessment indices are individually evaluated and decisions based on these indices are fused. The results of simulation and practical implementation on series cascade control structures illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

In this study, a novel fuzzy robust fault estimation scheme is developed for a class of nonlinear systems when both fault and disturbance are considered. The proposed scheme includes component fault with a nonlinear distribution matrix; as a result, the Takagi–Sugeno model is used to create multiple models. While the Takagi–Sugeno model is used for only the nonlinear distribution matrix of the fault signal, a larger category of nonlinear systems will be considered. This paper presents the problem of robust fault estimation based on fuzzy nonlinear observers, the first one is a fuzzy unknown input observer and the other one is a fuzzy sliding mode observer. The approach decoupled the faulty subsystem from the rest of the system through a series of transformations. Then, the objective is to design a fuzzy unknown input observer guaranteeing the asymptotic stability of the error dynamic using the Lyapunov method and completely removing disturbances; meanwhile, a fuzzy sliding mode observer is designed for a faulty subsystem to generate an estimation of fault based on a quadratic Lyapunov function and some matrices inequality convexification techniques. The sliding motion affects only the faulty subsystem through a novel reduced order fuzzy sliding mode observer; meanwhile, all disturbances are completely removed by fuzzy unknown input observer. Sufficient conditions are established in order to guarantee the convergence of the state estimation error and the results are formulated in the form of linear matrix inequalities. Thus, an exact fault estimator is determined on the basis of linear matrix inequality conditions while the estimation fault is completely insensitive to the disturbance. Finally, a simulation study on an electromagnetic suspension system is presented to demonstrate the g performance of the results compared with a pure sliding mode observer.

This paper addresses the problem of velocity estimation for a class of uncertain mechanical systems. Using advantages of immersion and invariance technique with input– output filtered transformation, a proper immersion and dynamical auxiliary filter have been constructed in the designed estimator. Uniform global asymptotic convergence of the velocity estimator has been proved for the system with parametric uncertainties. In the presence of perturbations on the input and output, the performance analysis of the estimator has been theoretically investigated and illustrated by simulation results.

Control of hybrid systems faces computational complexity as a main challenging problem. To reduce the computational burden, multi-parametric programming has been proposed to obtain the explicit solution of the optimal control problems for some classes of hybrid systems. This strategy provides the solution as a function of the state variables which can be obtained in an off-line fashion. A shortcoming of this technique is that the complexity of the explicit solution is again prohibitive for large problems. The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of an approximation algorithm for solving a general class of multi-parametric mixed-integer linear programming (mp-MILP) problems. The algorithm selects those binary sequences that make significant improvement in the objective function, if considered. It is shown that significant reduction in computational complexity can be achieved by introducing adjustable level of suboptimality. A family of suboptimal controllers is obtained by the proposed approach for which the level of error and complexity can be adjusted by a tuning parameter. It is shown that no part of the parameter space is disregarded during the approximation. Also it is proved that the error in the achieved approximate solutions is a monotonically increasing function of the tuning parameter. Assuming that the closed-loop stability is ensured by including some constraints in the formulation of hybrid control, it will be preserved by the suboptimal low-complexity controllers. Illustrative examples are presented to demonstrate the achieved complexity reduction.

This paper presents a simple analytical method for tuning the parameters of fractional order PI (FOPI) controllers based on Bode's ideal transfer function. The proposed technique is applicable to stable plants describable by a fractional order counterpart of first order transfer function without time delay. Tuning rules are given in order to improve the robustness of the compensated system in the presence of gain uncertainty in the plant model. Finally, the designed FOPI controller is implemented on a laboratory scale twin rotor helicopter and comparison results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed tuning rules.

In this paper, particle dynamics and stability analysis of gravitational search algorithm (GSA) are investigated. The GSA is a swarm optimization algorithm which is inspired by the Newtonian laws of gravity and motion. Previously, the convergence analysis of the GSA and improved GSA algorithms were presented to demonstrate each particle converges. In this study, the stability of the particle dynamics using Lyapunov stability theorem and the system dynamics concept is analyzed. Sufficient conditions of stability analysis are investigated and utilized for adapting parameters of the GSA. The modified algorithm based on stability analysis is compared with the standard GSA, PSO, RGA, and two methods of improved GSA in terms of average, median, and standard deviation of best-so-far solutions. Simulation results demonstrate the validity and feasibility of the proposed modified GSA. In solving the optimization problem of various nonlinear functions, the high performance is achieved.

This paper presents a modified Independent Component Analysis (ICA)-based Fault Detection Method (FDM). The proposed FDM constructs a set of matrices, revealing the trend of the variable samples and execute ICA algorithm for each set of matrices in contrast to the FDM based on dynamic ICA (DICA) which constructs the high imensional augmented matrix. This paper shows that the proposed FDM decreases the matrix dimensions and as result compensates for some disadvantages of using the high dimensional matrix discussed in previous articles. Furthermore, other advantages of the proposed FDM are the decreases in the running time, computational cost of the algorithm and the orthogonalization estimation errors. Moreover, the proposed method improves the detectability for a class of faults compared to DICA-based FDM. This class of fault occurs when two or more consecutive samples of fault source signal have opposite signs and cancel out each other. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.

Model predictive controller is widely used in industrial plants. Uncertainty is one of the critical issues in real systems. In this paper, the direct adaptive Simplified Model Predictive Control (SMPC) is proposed for unknown or time varying plants with uncertainties. By estimating the plant step response in each sample, the controller is designed and the controller coefficients are directly calculated. The proposed method is validated via simulations for both slow and fast time varying systems. Simulation results indicate the controller ability for tracking references in the presence of plant’s time varying parameters. In addition, an analytical tuning method for adjusting prediction horizon is proposed based on optimization of the objective function. It leads to a simple formula including the model parameters, and an indirect adaptive controller can be designed based on the analytical formula. Simulation results indicate a better performance for the tuned controller. Finally, experimental tests are performed to show the effectiveness of the proposed methodologies.

In this paper a novel method for adaptive predictive control of a launch vehicle is presented. Nonlinear dynamics of these systems cause challenging problems in controller design. Linearizing the system in diverse operating points and designing appropriate controllers for these systems is an interesting idea in industry. The outcome is a linear time varying (LTV) system. Dealing with time varying dynamics is a challenging issue in control theory. Adaptive control approach presents a well-established methodology to address the subject of flight control systems. This paper proposes an indirect adaptive predictive idea to control the pitch channel dynamics of a launch vehicle. For this purpose, a robust estimator and a robustly-tuned generalized predictive controller are incorporated to present a robust adaptive scheme. The proposed technique is applied to pitch channel model of Vanguard missile. A set of test scenarios is conducted to explore the performance of proposed controller in various conditions. The results demonstrate the fidelity of this method to yield high performance in the presence of time-varying parameters under various un-modeled dynamics and external disturbances.

Many industrial processes can be effectively described with first-order plus fractional dead time models. In the case of plants with a large dead time relative to the time constant, approximations in discretizing the time delay can adversely affect the performance and if the sample time is enforced by system requirements, the fractional nature of the delay should be considered. In this paper, an analytical approach to model predictive control tuning for stable and unstable first-order plus dead time models with fractional delay is presented. The existing tuning methods are based on trial and error or numerical optimization approaches and the available closed form equations are limited to plants with integer delays. In this paper, an analytical approach is adopted and the issues of closed loop stability and achievable performance are addressed. Finally, simulation results are used to show the effectiveness of the proposed tuning strategy.

In this paper, control performance assessment for a class of nonlinear systems modelled by autoregressive second-order Volterra series with a general linear additive disturbance is presented. The proposed approach employs the nonlinear generalised minimum variance (NGMV) controller concept. The Volterra series models provide a natural extension of a linear convolution model with the nonlinearity considered in an additive term. The polynomial operator form is used throughout this paper for the description of the system input–output model. The closed form formulation of NGMV controller for autoregressive second-order Volterra series is presented in a polynomial form then a control assessment criterion based on the NGMV control is given. Simulation results and comparison studies are used to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach for a class of nonlinear systems.

The growing availability of high-resolution satellite imagery provides an opportunity for identifying road objects. Most studies associated with road detection are scene-related and also based on the digital number of each pixel. Because images can provide more details (including color, size, shape, and texture), object-based processing is more advantageous. Therefore, in this paper, to handle the existing uncertainty of satellite image pixel values, using type-2 fuzzy set theory in combination with object-based image analysis is proposed. Because the main challenges of the type-2 fuzzy set are parameter tuning and extensive computations, a hybrid genetic algorithm (GA) consisting of Pittsburgh and cooperative-competitive learning schemes is proposed to address these problems. The most prominent feature of our research in this work is to establish a comprehensive object-based type-2 fuzzy logic system that enables us to detect roads in high-resolution satellite images with no training data. The validation assessment of road detection results using the proposed framework for independent images demonstrates the capability and efficiency of our method in identifying road objects. For more evaluation, a type-1 fuzzy logic system with the same structure as type-2 is tuned. Evaluations show that type-1 fuzzy logic system quality in training is very similar to that of the proposed type-2 fuzzy framework. However, in general, its lower accuracy, as inferred by validation assessments, makes the type-1 fuzzy logic system significantly different from the proposed type-2.

A distributed drift-flux model and a low-order lumped model describing a multiphase (gas-liquid) flow in the well during Under-Balanced Drilling (UBD) has been presented. This paper presents a novel nonlinear adaptive observer to estimate the total mass of gas and liquid in the annulus and production constant of gas and liquid from the reservoir into the well during UBD operations. Furthermore, it describes a joint unscented Kalman filter to estimate parameters and states for both the distributed drift-flux and lumped model by using real-time measurements of the choke and the bottom-hole pressures. The performance of the adaptive observers are evaluated for typical drilling scenarios. The results show that all adaptive observers are capable of identifying the production index, although the adaptive observers based on the low-order lumped model achieves better convergence rate than adaptive observer based on the drift-flux model. The results show that the LOL model is sufficient for the purpose of estimating the production parameters.

The problem discussed in this paper is the effect of latency time on the OGY chaos control methodology in multi chaotic systems. The Smith predictor, rhythmic and memory strategies are embedded in the OGY chaos control method to encounter loop latency. A comparison study is provided and the advantages of the Smith predictor approach are clearly evident from the closed loop responses. The complex plants considered are coupled chaotic maps controlled by the extended OGY scheme. Simulation results are used to show the effectiveness of the applied Smith predictor scheme structure in multi chaotic systems.

This paper presents a non-linear generalised minimum variance (NGMV) controller for a second-order Volterra series model with a general linear additive disturbance. The Volterra series models provide a natural extension of a linear convolution model with the nonlinearity considered in an additive term. The design procedure is entirely carried out in the state space framework, which facilitates the application of other analysis and design methods in this framework. First, the non-linear minimum variance (NMV) controller is introduced and then by changing the cost function, NGMV controller is defined as an extended version of the linear cases. The cost function is used in the simplest form and can be easily extended to the general case. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed non-linear method.

A new approach for modeling and monitoring of the multivariate processes in presence of faulty and missing observations is introduced. It is assumed that operating modes of the process can transit to each other following a Markov chain model. Transition probabilities of the Markov chain are time varying as a function of the scheduling variable. Therefore, the transition probabilities will be able to vary adaptively according to different operating modes. In order to handle the problem of missing observations and unknown operating regimes, the expectation maximization algorithm is used to estimate the parameters. The proposed method is tested on two simulations and one industrial case studies. The industrial case study is the abnormal operating condition diagnosis in the primary separation vessel of oil-sand processes. In comparison to the conventional methods, the proposed method shows superior performance in detection of different operating conditions of the process.

The walking beam furnace is one of the most prominent process plants often met in an alloy steel production factory and characterised by high non-linearity, strong coupling, time delay, large time-constant and time variation in its parameter set and structure. From another viewpoint, the walking beam furnace is a distributed- parameter process in which the distribution of temperature is not uniform. Hence, this process plant has complicated non-linear dynamic equations that have not worked out yet. In this paper, we propose one-step non-linear predictive model for a real walking beam furnace using non-linear black-box subsystem identification based on locally linear neuro-fuzzy model. Furthermore, a multi-step predictive model with a precise long prediction horizon (i. e., ninety seconds ahead), developed with application of the sequential one-step predictive models, is also presented for the first time. The locally linear model tree which is a progressive tree-based algorithm trains these models. Comparing the performance of the one-step linear neuro-fuzzy model predictive models with their associated models obtained through least squares error solution proves that all operating zones of the walking beam furnace are of non-linear sub-systems. The recorded data from Iran Alloy Steel factory is utilized for identification and evaluation of the proposed neuro-fuzzy predictive models of the walking beam furnace process.

In this paper, three strategies are analysed and compared for optimal determination of tyre friction forces used for vehicle lateral-plane motion control. The valueability of this determination depends on the feasibility of the solution of a real-time optimisation problem. In strategy (III), the optimisation problem is relaxed from the equality constraints (enforced in strategies (I) and (II)) posed owing to the stabilisation and tracking objectives of the closed loop and instead these objectives are included in the cost function of the optimisation problem. In this way, the problem of the existence of feasible solution encountered in strategy (II) is remedied without infringing the saturation restrictions imposed by the limited physical capability of the tyres and actuators in developing tyre friction forces, which was overlooked in strategy (I). Detailed simulation studies show convincing performance that can be achieved with strategy (III) in physical entire range of operation including mild, moderate and severe manoeuvre conditions.

This paper presents a novel procedure for classification of normal and abnormal operating conditions of a process when multiple noisy observation sequences are available. Continuous time signals are converted to discrete observations using the method of triangular representation. Since there is a large difference in the means and variances of the durations and magnitudes of the triangles at different operating modes, adaptive fuzzy membership functions are applied for discretization. The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is used to obtain parameters of the different modes for the durations and magnitudes assuming that states transit to each other according to a Markov chain model. Applying Hamilton's filter, probability of each state given new duration and magnitude is calculated to weight the membership functions of each mode previously obtained from a fuzzy C-means clustering. After adaptive discretization step, having discrete observations available, the combinatorial method for training hidden Markov models (HMMs) with multiple observations is used for overall classification of the process. Application of the method is studied on both simulation and industrial case studies. The industrial case study is the detection of normal and abnormal process conditions in the primary separation vessel (PSV) of an oil sand industry. The method shows an overall good performance in detecting normal and risky operating conditions.

Multivariable model predictive control is a widely used advanced process control methodology, where handling delays and constraints are its key features. However, successful implementation of model predictive control requires an appropriate tuning of the controller parameters. This paper proposes an analytical tuning approach to multivariable model predictive controllers. The considered multivariable plants are square and consist of first-order plus dead time transfer functions. Most of the existing model predictive control tuning methods are based on trial and error or numerical approaches. In the case of no active constraints, closed loop transfer function matrices are derived and decoupling conditions are addressed. For control horizon of one, analytical tuning equations and achievable performances are obtained. Finally, simulation results are used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed tuning strategy.

Robustness of parameter estimator plays a vital role in adaptive controllers. A modified identification algorithm is proposed based on the augmented UD identification (AUDI) primary version. Augmented UD identification with selective forgetting (AUDSF) method is derived as a robust derivation of AUDI to be integrated with input-output data filtering, relative dead zone, and data normalisation features. AUDSF is incorporated by generalised predictive controller (GPC) strategy to produce an applicable adaptive control method. The comparative performances of the developed approach have been explored on two-mass spring challenging benchmark problem, which demonstrates its excellent behaviour under conducted parameter and disturbance uncertainty scenarios.

This paper presents a variable structure rule-based fuzzy control for trajectory tracking and vibration control of a flexible joint manipulator by using chaotic anti-control. Based on Lyapunov stability theory for variable structure control and fuzzy rules, the nonlinear controller and some generic sufficient conditions for global asymptotic control are attained. The fuzzy rules are directly constructed subject to a Lyapunov function obtained from variable structure surfaces such that the error dynamics of control problem satisfy stability in the Lyapunov sense. Also in this study, the anti-control is applied to reduce the deflection angle of flexible joint system. To achieve this goal, the chaos dynamic must be created in the flexible joint system. So, the flexible joint system has been synchronized to chaotic gyroscope system. In this study, control and anti-control concepts are applied to achieve the high quality performance of flexible joint system. It is tried to design a controller which is capable to satisfy the control and anticontrol aims. The performances of the proposed control are examined in terms of input tracking capability, level of vibration reduction and time response specifications. Finally, the efficacy of the proposed method is validated through experimentation on QUANSER’s flexible-joint manipulator.

In this paper, evolutionary algorithms are proposed to compute the optimal parameters of Gaussian Radial Basis Adaptive Backstepping Control (GRBABC) for chaotic systems. Generally, parameters are chosen arbitrarily, so in several cases this choice can be tedious. Also, stability cannot be achieved when the parameters are inappropriately chosen. The optimal design problems are to introduce optimization algorithms like Genetic Algorithms (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in order to find the optimal parameters which minimize a cost function defined as an error quadratic function. These methods are applied to two chaotic systems; Duffing Oscillator and Lü systems. Simulation results verify that our proposed algorithms can achieve enhanced tracking performance regarding similar methods.

Electro-hydrostatic actuator (EHA) is a kind of hydraulic system in which fluid is routed directly by pump to the actuator. In this study, a novel adaptive fuzzy-PID controller is developed to improve position controlling performance of an EHA. First of all, design and simulation of an EHA by using multidisciplinary modelling method is presented. This model is evaluated by soft validation method. The whole proposed novel control system is composed of a pair of interconnected subsystems, that is, a simple fuzzy-PID controller (SFPID) and a radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) to enhance the tracking performance. The RBFNN fuzzy-PID control (RBFNNF-PID) is applied to EHA. Also, SFPID control, fuzzy-PID control based on extended Kalman filter using grey predictor (FPIDKG) and simple adaptive control (SAC) as significant controls are applied to EHA. The simulation results have shown a significant improvement in transient response and reduction in sum square error (SSE).

This paper presents a new approach for the stability analysis and controller synthesis of discrete-time Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy dynamic systems. In this paper, nonmonotonic Lyapunov function is utilized to relax the monotonic requirement of Lyapunov theorem which renders larger class of functions to provide stability. To this end, three new sufficient conditions are proposed to establish global asymptotic stability. In this regard, the Lyapunov function decreases every few steps; however, it can be increased locally. Moreover, a new method is proposed to design the state feedback controller. It is shown that the Lyapunov function and the state feedback control law can be obtained by solving a set of Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI) or Iterative Linear Matrix Inequalities (ILMI) which are numerically feasible with commercially available softwares. Finally, the exhausted numerical examples manifest the effectiveness of our proposed approach and that it is less conservative compared with the available schemes.

A real-time dynamic hardware-in-loop (HIL) simulator of an RTX real-time subsystem (RTSS) was developed by using LabVIEW (G language). The main idea of this work was to determine the feasibility and accuracy of widely available and highly competitive commercial products, such as personal computers on an RTSS, as an alternative to conventional prohibitive real-time simulators in dynamic studies of power systems. The implemented system is a self-contained heavy-duty gas turbine, governor, synchronous 200-MVA, 15.75-kV machine and a simplified electrical network. The HIL simulator was customized to interact with a 1518-kW static exciter. The role of this HIL simulator is to provide real-time digital and analog signals for static exciter systems (SES) and to simulate the mechanical and electrical components in a closed-loop, fixed-step solver applied by a well-known numerical solution method. This sophisticated yet exceptionally economic HIL simulator provides engineers with a safe environment to analyze the dynamic performance of static exciters and investigate their natural restraints and functionalities. It also provides a safe environment to analyze some naturally destructive tests.

In this paper, a robust second order sliding mode control (SMC) for controlling a quadrotor with uncertain parameters presented based on high order sliding mode control (HOSMC). A controller based on the HOSMC technique is designed for trajectory tracking of a quadrotor helicopter with considering motor dynamics. The main subsystems of quadrotor (i.e. position and attitude) stabilized using HOSMC method. The performance and effectiveness of the proposed controller are tested in a simulation study taking into account external disturbances with consider to motor dynamics. Simulation results show that the proposed controller eliminates the disturbance effect on the position and attitude subsystems efficiency that can be used in real time applications.

In this paper, an adaptive multiple model predictive controller (AMMPC) based on multiple model switching and tuning strategy and dynamic matrix control (DMC) system is presented to construct switching-tuning adaptive multiple model predictive controller (STAMMPC). Disadvantages of non adaptive multiple model predictive control (MMPC) in regulation and disturbance rejection are discussed and new robust adaptive supervisors to improve the decision making procedures are developed. Experimental results on pH neutralization process show that the proposed decentralized control strategy using STAMMPC algorithm has desirable performance and robustness characteristics and is superior to the other MMPC algorithms, especially in the case of the participation with suggested new adaptive disturbance rejection supervisor.

A multiple model structure of a prototype industrial gas turbine system is constructed under normal operation using a systematic method that incorporates non-linearity measure and H-gap metric tools with the multiple models technique. First, two new non-linearity indices for multiple input–multiple output systems are introduced and employed for decomposing the operating space of a gas turbine into some linear and non-linear modes. The non-linear modes may be further partitioned into some linear modes. The input and output data in each of the linear modes are used to construct an initial multiple model structure. In order to avoid the increase of the number of linear local models, the H-gap metric is extended to multiple input–multiple output systems and used to measure the similarity between linear local models and to merge the similar models. As a result, an algorithm is proposed for construction of multiple linear local models. The algorithm is employed for the identification of a single-shaft prototype industrial gas turbine.

One of the most important parts of a cement factory is the cement rotary kiln which plays a key role in quality and quantity of produced cement. In this part of the process, the physical exertion and bilateral movement of air and materials, together with chemical reactions take place. Thus, this system has immensely complex and non-linear dynamic equations. These equations have not completely extracted yet. Even in special cases, however, a large number of the involved parameters were crossed out and an approximation model was presented instead. This issue caused many problems for designing a cement rotary kiln controller. In this paper, we present non-linear predictor and simulator models for a real cement rotary kiln by using non-linear identification technique on the locally linear neuro-fuzzy (LLNF) model. For the first time, a simulator model as well as a predictor one with a precise 15-minute horizon prediction for a cement rotary kiln are presented. These models are trained by LOLIMOT algorithm which is an incremental tree-structure algorithm. At the end, the characteristics of these models are expressed. Furthermore, we present the pros and cons of these models. The data collected from White Saveh Cement Company is used for modelling.

Neural network based controller is used for controlling a mobile robot system. Feedback error learning (FEL) can be regarded as a hybrid control to guarantee stability of control approach. This paper presents simulation of a mobile robot system controlled by a FEL neural network and PD controllers. This feedback error-learning controller benefits from both classic and adaptive controller properties. The simulation results demonstrate that this method is more feasible and effective for mobile robot system control.

This paper studies identification of a process in both frequent and infrequent operating points to design a nonlinear model predictive controller. Although, many of industrial processes normally work around an operating point, however they should seldom work in some infrequent points as well. In this case, due to low ratio of data points, identification of the processes based on all data set results in poor identification of the infrequent operating points. To resolve this problem, in this paper, at the first step, a data clustering strategy is used to group the data in different operating points. Since the ratio of infrequent to frequent data points is extremely low, the strategy used is the fuzzy Gath-Geva clustering methodology. Then, at the second step, a new approach has been proposed to compromise performance of identification of the nonlinear model for frequent and infrequent operating points. It is shown that if the ratio of data associated with frequent operating point to data of infrequent operating point is appropriately selected, the performance of the model remains satisfactory in the frequent operating point while the performance in the infrequent operating point is significantly improved as well. The proposed method gives an interval for appropriate ratio of data set in the highly nonlinear pH neutralization process.

In this study, a new adaptive controller is proposed for position control of pneumatic systems. Difficulties associated with the mathematical model of the system in addition to the instability caused by Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) in the learning-based controllers using gradient descent, motivate the development of a new approach for PWM pneumatics. In this study, two modified Feedback Error Learning (FEL) methods are suggested and the their effectiveness are validated by experimental tracking data. The first one is a combination of PD (Proportionalâ Derivative) and RBF (Radial Basis Function) and in the second one RBF is replaced by ANFIS (Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System). The robustness to varying mass is also examined. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithms, especially with ANFIS, are able to give good performance regardless of any uncertainties.

In a physical system several targets are normally being considered in which each one of nominal and robust performance has their own strengths and weaknesses. In nominal performance case, system operation without uncertainty has decisive effect on the operation of system, whereas in robust performance one, operation with uncertainty will be considered. The purpose of this paper is a balance between nominal and robust performance of the state feedback. The new approach of present paper is the combination of two controllers of μ and H2/H∞. The controller for robust stability status, nominal performance, robust performance and noise rejection are designed simultaneously. The controller will be achieved by solving constraint optimization problem. The paper uses a simultaneous H2/H∞/µ robust multivariable controller design over an X-29 Single Person aircraft. This model has three inputs and three outputs, where the state space equations of the system correspond to an unstable one. Simulation results show the effectiveness and benefits of the method.

Information signal from real case and natural complex dynamical systems such as traffic flow are usually specified by irregular motions. Chaotic nonlinear dynamics approach is now the most powerful tool for scientists to deal with complexities in real cases, and neural networks and neuro-fuzzy models are widely used for their capabilities in nonlinear modeling of chaotic systems more than the traditional methods. As mentioned, the traffic flow conditions caused the forecasting values of traffic flow to lack robustness and accuracy. In this paper, the traffic flow forecasting is analyzed with emotional concepts and multi-agent systems (MASs) points of view as a new method in this field. The findings enabled the researchers to develop a newly object-oriented method of forecasting traffic flow. Its architecture is based on a temporal difference (TD) Q-learning with a neuro-fuzzy structure, which is the nonparametric approach. The performance of TD Q-learning is improved by emotional learning. The proposed method on the present conditions and the action of the system according to the criteria could forecast traffic signals so that the objectives are reached in minimum time. The ability of presented learning algorithm to prospect gains from future actions and obtain rewards from its past experiences allows emotional TD Q-learning algorithm to improve its decisions for the best possible actions. In addition, to study in a more practical situation, the neuro-fuzzy behaviors could be modeled by MAS. The proposed method (intelligent/nonparametric approach) is compared by parametric approach, autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) method, which is implemented by multi-layer perceptron neural networks and called ARIMANN. Here, the ARIMANN is updated by backpropagation and temporal difference backpropagation for the first time. The simulation results revealed that the studied forecaster could discover the optimal forecasting by means of the Q-learning algorithm. Difficult to handle through parametric and classic methods, the real traffic flow signals used for fitting the algorithms is obtained from a two-lane street I-494 in Minnesota City.

This brief proposes modified projective synchronization (MPS) methods for underactuated unknown heavy symmetric chaotic gyroscope systems via optimal Gaussian radial basis adaptive variable structure control. Chaotic gyroscope systems are considered as underactuated systems where a control input is designed to synchronize the two degree of freedoms interactions. Until now, no investigation of this subject with one control input has been presented. The importance of obtaining synchronization objectives is specified when the dynamics of gyroscope system are unknown. In this brief, using the neural variable structure control technique, a control law is established that guarantees the MPS of underactuated unknown chaotic gyros. In the neural variable structure control, Gaussian radial basis functions are utilized to estimate online the system dynamic functions. Adaptation laws of the online estimator are derived in the sense of the Lyapunov function. Moreover, online and offline optimizers are applied to optimize the energy of the control signal. The proposed solution is generalized to chaos control of the mentioned gyroscopes. Numerical simulations are presented to verify the proposed synchronization methods.

Nowadays, genetic disorders, like cancer and birth defects, are a great threat to human life. Since the first noticing of these types of diseases, many efforts have been made and researches performed in order to recognize them and find a cure for them. These disorders affect genes and they appear as abnormal traits in a genetic organism. In order to recognize abnormal genes, we need to predict splice sites in a DNA signal; then, we can process the genetic codes between two continuous splice sites and analyze the trait that it represents. In addition to abnormal genes and their consequent disorders, we can also identify other normal human traits like physical and mental features. So the primary issue here is to estimate splice sites precisely. In this paper, we have introduced two new methods in using neuro-fuzzy network and clustering for DNA splice site prediction. In this method, instead of using raw data and nucleotide sequence as an input to neural network, a survey on the first bunch of the nucleotide sequence of true and false categories of the input is carried out and training of the neuro-fuzzy network is achieved based on the similarities and dissimilarities of the selected sequences. In addition, sequences of the large input data are clustered into smaller categories to improve the prediction as they are really spliced based on different mechanisms. Experimental results show that these improvements have increased the recognition rate of the splice sites.

This paper proposes a novel approach for bilateral teleoperation systems with a multi degrees-of-freedom (DOF) nonlinear robotic system on the master and slave side with constant time delay in a communication channel. We extend the passivity based architecture to improve position and force tracking and consequently transparency in the face of offset in initial conditions, environmental contacts and unknown parameters such as friction coefficients. The proposed controller employs a stable neural network on each side to approximate unknown nonlinear functions in the robot dynamics, thereby overcoming some limitations of conventional controllers such as PD or adaptive controllers and guaranteeing good tracking performance. Moreover, we show that this new neural network controller preserves the control passivity of the system. Simulation results show that NN controller tracking performance is superior to that of conventional controllers.

Despite active research and significant progress in the last three decades on control of human eye movements, it remains challenging issue due to its applications in prosthetic eyes and robotics. Till now, no considerable investigation of this subject is presented in the interdisciplinary sciences. The goal of this paper is to present a distinguished survey of existing literature on the intelligent control of the human eye movements system applied in a huggable pet-type robot as a biomechatronic system. In this study, the basic knowledge of human eye movements control is explained to show how the neural networks in the brainstem control the human eye movements. The geometry and model of human eye movements system are investigated and this system is considered as a nonlinear control system. The specified model may only be an academic exercise. It can have scientific importance in understanding of the human movement system in general. Also, it can be useful for robotics. Intelligent methods such as artificial neural networks and fuzzy neural networks are proposed to control the human eye movements and numerical simulations are presented. It is discussed that the intelligent controls applied to control of human eye movements system are emulated from the neural controls in biological system.

This paper presents a novel teleoperation controller for a nonlinear master–slave robotic system with constant time delay in communication channel. The proposed controller enables the teleoperation system to compensate human and environmental disturbances, while achieving master and slave position coordination in both free motion and contact situation. The current work basically extends the passivity based architecture upon the earlier work of Lee and Spong (2006) [14] to improve position tracking and consequently transparency in the face of disturbances and environmental contacts. The proposed controller employs a PID controller in each side to overcome some limitations of a PD controller and guarantee an improved performance. Moreover, by using Fourier transform and Parseval’s identity in the frequency domain, we demonstrate that this new PID controller preserves the passivity of the system. Simulation and semi-experimental results show that the PID controller tracking performance is superior to that of the PD controller tracking performance in slave/environmental contacts.

This paper proposes the chaos control and the generalized projective synchronization methods for heavy symmetric gyroscope systems via Gaussian radial basis adaptive variable structure control. Because of the nonlinear terms of the gyroscope system, the system exhibits chaotic motions. Occasionally, the extreme sensitivity to initial states in a system operating in chaotic mode can be very destructive to the system because of unpredictable behavior. In order to improve the performance of a dynamic system or avoid the chaotic phenomena, it is necessary to control a chaotic system with a periodic motion beneficial for working with a particular condition. As chaotic signals are usually broadband and noise like, synchronized chaotic systems can be used as cipher generators for secure communication. This paper presents chaos synchronization of two identical chaotic motions of symmetric gyroscopes. In this paper, the switching surfaces are adopted to ensure the stability of the error dynamics in variable structure control. Using the neural variable structure control technique, control laws are established which guarantees the chaos control and the generalized projective synchronization of unknown gyroscope systems. In the neural variable structure control, Gaussian radial basis functions are utilized to on-line estimate the system dynamic functions. Also, the adaptation laws of the on-line estimator are derived in the sense of Lyapunov function. Thus, the unknown gyro systems can be guaranteed to be asymptotically stable. Also, the proposed method can achieve the control objectives. Numerical simulations are presented to verify the proposed control and synchronization methods. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed methods is discussed.

This paper proposes mixed eigenstructure assignment with H∞ constraint when the states are not measurable. In this case, full state feedback is not permissible. So eigenstructure assignment by output feedback is considered. According to enhanced linear matrix inequality (LMI) and parametric eigenstructure assignment, we propose a method in terms of linear matrix inequality (LMI). This LMI can be easily solved by the Yalmip or LMI toolbox.

In this paper, the design of decentralized switching control for uncertain multivariable plants is considered. In the proposed strategy, the uncertainty region is divided into smaller regions with a nominal model and specific control structure. The underlying design is based on the quantitative feedback theory (QFT). It is assumed that a MIMO-QFT controller exists for robust stability and performance of the individual uncertain sets. The proposed control structure is made up by these local decentralized controllers, which commute among themselves in accordance with the decision of a high level decision maker called the supervisor. The supervisor makes the decision by comparing the local models’ behaviors with the one of the plant and selects the controller corresponding to the best fitted model. A hysteresis switching logic is used to slow down the switching to guarantee the overall closed loop stability. It is shown that this strategy provides a stable and robust adaptive controller to deal with complex multivariable plants with input–output pairing changes during the plant operation, which can facilitate the development of a reconfigurable decentralized control. Also, the multirealization technique is used to implement a family of controllers to achieve bumpless transfer. Simulation results are employed to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

A helicopter has nonlinear dynamics and it'sa multivariable system. A helicopter is an unstable plant with high level of interaction between some of its variables. Therefore, controlling a helicopter is very difficult and to control it we must use special strategies. A fuzzy controller is a kind of nonlinear controller. It can control a plant without a mathematical model or a poor model. In this paper, we designed a fuzzy controller for an unmanned helicopter with finite degree of freedom. The fuzzy controller is designed based on optimal controller strategies. The proposed method has a better performance than state feedback optimal controller.

When the process is highly uncertain, even linear minimum phase systems must sacrifice desirable feedback control benefits to avoid an excessive ‘cost of feedback’, while preserving the robust stability. In this paper, the control structure of supervisory based switching Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT) control is proposed to control highly uncertain plants. According to this strategy, the uncertainty region is suitably divided into smaller regions. It is assumed that a QFT controller-prefilter exits for robust stability and robust performance of the individual uncertain sets. The proposed control architecture is made up by these local controllers, which commute among themselves in accordance with the decision of a high level decision maker called the supervisor. The supervisor makes the decision by comparing the candidate local model behavior with the one of the plant and selects the controller corresponding to the best fitted model. A hysteresis switching logic is used to slow down switching for stability reasons. Besides, each controller is designed to be stable in the whole uncertainty domain, and as accurate in command tracking as desired in its uncertainty subset to preserve the robust stability from any failure in the switching.

Development of a fault detection scheme for nonlinear systems is often difficult due to complexity of the system. In this study a new method, based on parity relations for linear systems, is proposed to detect faults in nonlinear systems that can be modeled by Takagi- Sugeno (TS) fuzzy system. This method is an intuitive generalization of parity relations, because TS fuzzy system uses local linear models. Results of simulation and implementation on a rotary inverted pendulum show that faults can be detected very well.

In this paper, fault tolerant synchronization of chaotic gyroscope systems versus external disturbances via Lyapunov rule-based fuzzy control is investigated. Taking the general nature of faults in the slave system into account, a new synchronization scheme, namely, fault tolerant synchronization, is proposed, by which the synchronization can be achieved no matter whether the faults and disturbances occur or not. By making use of a slave observer and a Lyapunov rule-based fuzzy control, fault tolerant synchronization can be achieved. Two techniques are considered as control methods: classic Lyapunov-based control and Lyapunov rule-based fuzzy control. On the basis of Lyapunov stability theory and fuzzy rules, the nonlinear controller and some generic sufficient conditions for global asymptotic synchronization are obtained. The fuzzy rules are directly constructed subject to a common Lyapunov function such that the error dynamics of two identical chaotic motions of symmetric gyros satisfy stability in the Lyapunov sense. Two proposed methods are compared. The Lyapunov rule-based fuzzy control can compensate for the actuator faults and disturbances occurring in the slave system. Numerical simulation results demonstrate the validity and feasibility of the proposed method for fault tolerant synchronization.

Rotary kiln is the central and the most complex component of cement production process. It is used to convert calcineous raw meal into cement clinkers, which plays a key role in quality and quantity of the final produced cement. This system has complex nonlinear dynamic equations that have not been completely worked out yet. In conventional modeling procedure, a large number of the involved parameters are crossed out and an approximation model is presented instead. Therefore, the performance of the obtained model is very important and an inaccurate model may cause many problems for designing a controller. This study presents hierarchical wavelet TS-type fuzzy inference system (HWFIS) for identification of cement rotary kiln. In the proposed method, wavelet fuzzy inference system (WFIS) with two input variables is used as sub-model in a hierarchical structure and gradient descent (GD) algorithm is chosen for training parameters of antecedent and conclusion parts of sub-models. The results show that the proposed method has higher performance in comparison with the other models. The data collected from Saveh White Cement Company is used in our simulations.

A new switching mechanism for multiple model adaptive controllers (MMAC) is suggested in this paper. The proposed method gives superior performance in comparison to the widely used method of switching based on performance function and hysteresis function in systems which experience high levels of measurement noise. This method acts as a complementary condition within the switching mechanism which checks the existence of excitation in system at every instant. The new method is evaluated by simulation studies on a nonlinear model of a pH neutralization plant.

This study presents fault tolerant control of inverted pendulum via on-line fuzzy backstepping and anti-control of chaos. The inverted pendulum, as a mechatronics system, is used frequently in robotic applications and can be found in different forms. Based on Lyapunov stability theory for backstepping design, the nonlinear controller and some generic sufficient conditions for asymptotic control are attained. Also in this study, anti-control of chaos is applied to increase the fault tolerant of inverted pendulum. To achieve this goal, the chaos dynamic must be created in the inverted pendulum system. So, the inverted pendulum system has been synchronized to chaotic gyroscope system. In this study, control and anti-control concepts are applied to achieve the high quality performance of inverted pendulum system. It is tried to design a controller which is capable to satisfy the control and anti- control aims. The performances of the proposed control are examined in terms of fault tolerant capability. Finally the efficacy of the proposed methods are illustrated by simulations.

This study proposes a model-based robust fault detection and isolation (RFDI) method with hybrid structure. Robust detection and isolation of the realistic faults of an industrial gas turbine in steady-state conditions is mainly considered. For residual generation, a bank of time-delay multilayer perceptron (MLP) models is used, and in fault detection step, a passive approach based on model error modelling is employed to achieve threshold adaptation. To do so, local linear neuro-fuzzy (LLNF) modelling is utilised for constructing error-model to generate uncertainty interval upon the system output in order to make decision whether a fault occurred or not. This model is trained using local linear model tree (LOLIMOT) which is a progressive tree-construction algorithm. Simple thresholding is also used along with adaptive thresholding in fault detection phase for comparative purposes. Besides, another MLP neural network is utilised to isolate the faults. In order to show the effectiveness of proposed RFDI method, it was tested on a single-shaft industrial gas turbine prototype model and has been evaluated based on the gas turbine data. A brief comparative study with the related works done on this gas turbine benchmark is also provided to show the pros and cons of the presented RFDI method.

Minimal stopping distance, guaranteed steering ability and stability are the three most important purposes in Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) realm. The ABS system is a nonlinear, time variant and multivariable system with some uncertainties. Some research work has been carried out on ABS control systems using intricate methods, which are expensive to implement. In this paper at the first step, the system interference is decreased via decoupling matrix and the ABS is controlled with a robust diagonal controller. In fact, a decentralized control technique is used for our ABS control mechanism. At the second step, we exploit a multivariable technique in linear control to attack the problem. This is the Designed Linear Control with Multivariable Technique. The Optimal Eigenstructure assignment with the Genetic Algorithm (GA) method is also applied. Simulation and comparison studies are used to show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

This paper presents a proposal for multiobjective Invasive Weed Optimization (IWO) based on nondominated sorting of the solutions. IWO is an ecologically inspired stochastic optimization algorithm which has shown successful results for global optimization. In the present work, performance of the proposed nondominated sorting IWO (NSIWO) algorithm is evaluated through a number of well-known benchmarks for multiobjective optimization. The simulation results of the test problems show that this algorithm is comparable with other multiobjective evolutionary algorithms and is also capable of finding better spread of solutions in some cases. Next, the proposed algorithm is employed to study the Pareto improvement model in two complex electricity markets. First, the Pareto improvement solution set is obtained for a three-player oligopolistic electricity market with a nonlinear demand function. Then, the IEEE 30-bus power system with transmission constraints is considered, and the Pareto improvement solutions are found for the model with deterministic cost functions. In addition, NSIWO algorithm is used to analyze this system with stochastic cost data in a risk management problem which maximizes the expected total profit but minimizes the profit risk in the market.

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In this paper, a new practical robust water level control system for the U-tube steam generator (UTSG) using the quantitative feedback theory (QFT) is proposed. The steam generator is a nonlinear uncertain plant. However, the steam generator behaves as a linear uncertain and nonminimum phase plant at its different operating points, which makes its control a challenging problem. The control problem is to design controllers such that the closed-loop plant satisfies the robust stability, disturbance rejection, and robust tracking specifications that are derived from a desired steam generator performance. In the QFT design methodology, these specifications are satisfied by generating the plant templates, the composite bounds, and a nominal plant loop shaping procedure to satisfy these bounds. Simulation results reveal that the designed QFT water level controllers will ensure all the designers’ closed-loop specifications. Also, comparison results are provided that show the effectiveness of the robust QFT controllers with respect to the previously employed internal model-based controller.

The paper presents a new frequency-domain methodology to explicitly address the robustness margins for analysis and tuning of generalized predictive control (GPC). The GPC is formulated in two-degree-of-freedom configuration to allow for simultaneous execution of robustness analysis and frequency characteristic shaping. The underlying idea is to present a robust tuning scheme for GPC scheme by synthesizing some sensitivity functions in discrete-time domain, quantifying the relevant cause-and-effect perturbations, in order to shape them so that the effects of influences can be reduced in a specific frequency range. Several frequency-domain templates have been introduced to practically demonstrate usefulness of output, noise, and input sensitivity functions as complementing analysis tools for robust tuning of GPC. The proposed method ensures robust adjustments of the non-trivial tuning of GPC free parameter knobs through simultaneous realization of robustness analysis and frequency characteristic shaping. The method can hence be utilized as a powerful method for tuning of GPC for a wide range of single-input single-output (SISO) linear systems. Illustrative simulation examples have been conducted to explore the effectiveness of the proposed method.

This paper presents the stabilization problem of a linear time invariant fractional order (LTI-FO) switched system with order 1< q< 2 by a single Lyapunov function whose derivative is negative and bounded by a quadratic function within the activation regions of each subsystem. The switching law is extracted based on the variable structure control with a sliding sector. First, a sufficient condition for the stability of an LTI-FO switched system with order 1< q< 2 based on the convex analysis and linear matrix inequality (LMI) is presented and proved. Then a single Lyapunov function, whose derivative is negative, is constructed based on the extremum seeking method. A sliding sector is designed for each subsystem of the LTI-FO switched system so that each state in the state space is inside at least one sliding sector with its corresponding subsystem, where the Lyapunov function found by the extremum seeking control is decreasing. Finally, a switching control law is designed to switch the LTI-FO switched system among subsystems to ensure the decrease of the Lyapunov function in the state space. Simulation results are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed VS controller.

Input-Output data modeling using multi layer perceptron networks (MLP) for a laboratory helicopter is presented in this paper. The behavior of the two degree-of-freedom platform exemplifies a high order unstable, nonlinear system with significant cross-coupling between pitch and yaw directional motions. This paper develops a practical algorithm for identifying nonlinear autoregressive model with exogenous inputs (NARX) and nonlinear output error model (NOE) through closed loop identification. In order to collect input-output identifier pairs, a cascade state feedback (CSF) controller is introduced to stabilize the helicopter and after that the procedure of system identification is proposed. The estimated models can be utilized for nonlinear flight simulation and control and fault detection studies.

In this paper we address the pursuing or target tracking problem where an autonomous robotic vehicle is required to move towards a maneuvering target using range-only measurements. A new switched based control strategy is proposed to solve the pursuing problem that can be described as comprising a continuous cycle of two distinct phases: i) the determination of the bearing, and ii) following the direction computed in the previous step while the range is decreasing. We provide conditions under which the switched closed-loop system achieves convergence of the relative distance error to a small neighborhood around zero. Simulation results are presented and discussed.

In the petroleum industry perforating is a method of making holes through the casing opposite the production formation to allow the oil or gas to flow into the well. In the current explosive shaped charge perforation method there arc some serious problems, such as producing debris. uncontrollable hole size and shape, compaction of rock formation in the area next to the tunnel and decreasing permeability. Recent advances in high power laser technology provide a new alternative to replace the current perforating gun. Due to the nature of oil and gas reservoirs, one of the challenges in laser perforation is the laser beam-fluid interaction that results in laser power loss (LPL), In this paper, feed-forward network with back-propagation and generalized regression neural networks have been developed to predict LPL in the laser beam-fluid interaction during laser perforation. Effective parameters in the laser-fluid interaction such as laser power, fluid viscosity and fluid thickness which arc related to laboratory tests done by ytterbium-doped multi-clad fibre laser are the inputs and LPL is the output of the neural networks. The developed neural networks have shown high correlation coefficients with low error and the LPL for the laser beam-fluid interaction during laser perforation was predicted with high accuracy.

The main purpose of this paper is a study of the efficiency of different nonlinearity detection methods based on time-series data from a dynamic process as a part of system identification. A very useful concept in measuring the nonlinearity is the definition of a suitable index to measure any deviation from linearity. To analyze the properties of such an index, the observed time series is assumed to be the output of Volterra series driven by a Gaussian input. After reviewing these methods, some modifications and new indices are proposed, and a benchmark simulation study is made. Correlation analysis, harmonic analysis and higher order spectrum analysis are selected methods to be investigated in our simulations. Each method has been validated with its own advantages and disadvantages.

In this paper, we introduce a vector which is able to describe the Niederlinski Index (NI), Relative Gain array (RGA), and the characteristic equation of the relative error matrix. The spectral radius and the structured singular value of the relative error matrix are investigated. The cases where the perfect result of the Relative Gain Array, equal to the identity matrix, coincides with the least interaction in a plant are pointed out. Then, the Jury Algorithm is adopted to get some insight into interaction analysis of multivariable plants. In particular, for interaction analysis of 3×3 plants, simple yet promising conditions in terms of the Relative Gain Array and the NiederLinski Index are derived. Several examples are also discussed to illustrate the main points.

Switching control is employed in many adaptive control strategies to overcome difficulties encountered in the control design problems that cannot be routinely solved by conventional robust and adaptive control architectures. A key stage in switching control design is the switching logic. This paper proposes a new switching scheme based on the control performance index (CPI) concepts. The performance assessment index is primarily calculated using the Markov parameters of the closed loop transfer function to assess the closed loop performance of the regulatory and tracking control systems. It is shown that employing CPI can lead to proper switching between different controllers. Finally, simulation results are provided show the main points of the paper.

Breast cancer Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has emerged as a powerful diagnostic tool for breast cancer detection due to its high sensitivity and has established a role where findings from conventional mammography techniques are equivocal[1]. In the clinical setting, the ANN has been widely applied in breast cancer diagnosis using a subjective impression of different features based on defined criteria. In this study, feature selection and classification methods based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) are applied to classify breast cancer on dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The database including benign and malignant lesions is specified to select the features and classify with proposed methods. It was collected from 2004 to 2006. A forward selection method is applied to find the best features for classification. Moreover, several neural networks classifiers like MLP, PNN, GRNN and RBF has been presented on a total of 112 histopathologically verified breast lesions to classify into benign and malignant groups. Also support vector machine have been considered as classifiers. Training and recalling classifiers are obtained with considering four-fold cross validation.

In this paper, a robust water level control system for the horizontal steam generator (SG) using the quantitative feedback theory (QFT) method is presented. To design a robust QFT controller for the nonlinear uncertain SG, control oriented linear models are identified. Then, the nonlinear system is modeled as an uncertain linear time invariant (LTI) system. The robust designed controller is applied to the nonlinear plant model. This nonlinear model is based on a locally linear neuro-fuzzy (LLNF) model. This model is trained using the locally linear model tree (LOLIMOT) algorithm. Finally, simulation results are employed to show the effectiveness of the designed QFT level controller. It is shown that it will ensure the entire designer’s water level closed loop specifications.

This article considers an improvement in dead zone modification scheme for robust model-reference adaptive control of SISO and TITO systems, described by input-output uncertain linear models with actuator faults. In the conventional approach, adaptation of the controller parameters is ceased in the dead zone, which leads to steady state tracking error. This problem is resolved by tuning specific controller parameters inside the dead zone. The stability of the closed loop system and tracking of step commands are verified analytically. A comparative numerical simulation is performed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in control of an engine-dynamometer system.

The pull-in instability places substantial restrictions on the performance of electrostatically driven MEMS devices by limiting their range of travel. Our objective is to present a systematic method of carrying out optimal design of novel types of electrostatic beams that have enhanced travel ranges. In this paper, we implement a shape optimization methodology using simulated annealing to maximize the static pull-in ranges of electrostatically actuated micro-cantilever beams. We use the Rayleigh-Ritz potential energy minimization technique to compute the pull-in displacement and voltage of each micro cantilever beam. A versatile parametric width function is used to characterize non-prismatic micro-cantilever geometries and the pull-in displacement of the cantilever is maximized with respect to the parameters of the proposed width function. Geometric constraints encountered in typical MEMS applications are incorporated into the optimization scheme using a penalty method. The simulated annealing algorithm uses different cooling schedules with the same number of objective function computations. We consider a matrix of several test cases in order to successfully demonstrate the utility of the proposed methodology. Our results indicate that an increase in the pull-in displacement of as much as 20% can be obtained by using our optimization approach. We have also compared our results with those obtained using traditional optimization approaches. We find the results are fairly independent of the cooling schedule used which demonstrates the usefulness and flexibility of this method to carry out optimal design of structural elements under electrostatic loading.

In this paper, the stabilization of linear time-invariant systems with fractional derivatives using a limited number of available state feedback gains, none of which is individually capable of system stabilization, is studied. In order to solve this problem in fractional order systems, the linear matrix inequality (LMI) approach has been used for fractional order systems. A shadow integer order system for each fractional order system is defined, which has a behavior similar to the fractional order system only from the stabilization point of view. This facilitates the use of Lyapunov function and convex analysis in systems with fractional order 1

Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC) is well known in the MPC family and has been implemented in many industrial processes. In all the MPC methods, tuning of controller parameters is a key step in successful control system performance. An analytical tuning expression for DMC is derived using the analysis of variance (ANOVA) methodology and nonlinear regression. It is assumed that the plants under consideration can be modeled by a First Order plus Dead Time (FOPDT) linear model. This facilitates the derivation of a closed form formulae for the tuning procedure. The proposed method is tested via simulations and experimental work. The plant chosen for practical implementation of the proposed tuning strategy is a nonlinear laboratory scale pH plant. Also, comparison results are provided to show the effectiveness of this method.

The reliability of an intelligent self tuning controller called the brain emotional learning based intelligent controller (BELBIC) to attitude control of a nonlinear launch vehicle (LV) simulation with hardware-in-the loop simulation (HILS) is studied. To set up the HIL system of the LV a six-degree of freedom simulation of the LV and a hydraulic actuator, which was used for the pitch channel thrust vector control (TVC) actuator of the LV, is performed. The results of the BELBIC controller with a fuzzy controller (FC) and a PID controller in this HILS of the LV to control the pitch channel of the LV have been compared.

In this paper, logistic map is offered as a model for cardiac arrhythmia. In order to control cardiac chaos, a controller based on Delayed Feedback Control methodology is presented. This controller imposes the desired fixed-points on the map via an adaptive control law. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed method. Finally advantages of the controller are mentioned.

Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC) is a widely used model predictive controller (MPC) in industrial plants. The successful implementation of DMC in practical applications requires a proper tuning of the controller. The available tuning procedures are mainly based on experience and empirical results. This paper develops an analytical tool for DMC tuning. It is based on the application of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and nonlinear regression analysis for First Order plus Dead Time (FOPDT) process models. It leads to a simple formula which involves the model parameters. The proposed method is validated via simulations as well as experimental results. A nonlinear pH neutralization model is used for the simulation studied. It is further implemented on a laboratory scale control level plant. A robustness analysis is performed based on the simulation results. Finally, comparison results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.

In this paper convergence speed of Least Mean Square (LMS) and Multi Stage Least Mean Square (MSLMS) in the active noise control systems have been studied and compared. The results show that MSLMS algorithm convergence rate is more efficient than LMS algorithm. Moreover; using of the above algorithms in the active noise control systems have been simulated. The simulation results show capability of the MLSM algorithm utilization in the active noise control systems.

This paper investigates the use of anL1adaptive controller direct approach to solve the attitude control problem of a launch vehicle (LV) during its atmospheric phase of flight. One of the most important difficulties in designing a controller for launch vehicles (LVs) is the widely changing system parameters during launch. Aerospace systems such as aircraft or missiles are subject to environmental and dynamical uncertainties. These uncertainties can alter the performance and stability of these systems. Unknown variations in thrust and atmospheric properties, eccentricities of nozzles, and other unknown conditions cause changes in a system. The L1 adaptive controller ensures uniformly bound transient and asymptotic tracking for the system’s signals – input and output – simultaneously. This adaptive control technique quickly compensates for large changes in the LV dynamics. The effect of feedback gain selection and robustness of this approach against system uncertainties and actuator disturbances are also discussed. The adaptive control method is then simulated with representative LV longitudinal motion. The effectiveness of the proposed control schemes is demonstrated through hardware-in-the- loop simulation.

Abstract The multiple modeling and controlapproach is a proper method for modeling and controlof nonlinear systems which their dynamics changesrapidly at different operating conditions. The dynamicof the twin rotor helicopter in vertical direction isnonlinear and changes instantaneously with respect tochange of the elevation angle, and it can be used forimplementation of multiple modeling and controlapproach. In this paper the performance of multiplemodeling and control approach by simulation andimplementation has been investigated.

Objective: The implementation of family psychoeducation at the service delivery level is not without difficulty. Few mental health professionals receive special training to work with families especially in Iran. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of training health professionals in terms of their adherence to protocol. Method: Eight professionals (general practitioners, nurses and social workers) participated in a training program for health professionals as part of the Roozbeh First-Episode Psychosis Program (RooF) to conduct family psychoeducation. Training included a 3-day- workshop and 12 supervision sessions during the course of the implementation of the psychoeducation program. The family psychoeducation sessions (multiple-family group or single-family home-based) were tape-recorded. Transcripts of the audiotaped sessions were analyzed based on the content of the manual and were scored accordingly. Results: Twenty-four recorded sessions were analyzed in terms of the adherence to protocol, the number of questions and the time for each session. The overall rating showed a 72% adherence to the protocol. Multiple-family group sessions had a higher rate compared to the single-family home-based family psychoeducation sessions (79% to 69%) as well as the time spent and questions asked. The rate of adherence to the protocol of conducting the family psychoeducation sessions had not changed over time. Conclusion: Considering the amount of time taken for training and supervision, the level of adherence to the protocol was satisfactory. Tape recording sessions and regular supervision would be beneficial following specialized training. Further research is needed to tailor the amount of training and supervision required for professionals to conduct family psychoeducation programs in different settings.

In this paper, we use system identification methods for abnormal condition detection in a cement rotary kiln. After selecting proper inputs and output, an input–output model is identified for the plant’s normal conditions. A novel approach is used in order to estimate the delays of the input channels of the kiln before identification part. This method eases the identification since with determining the input channels delays, the dimension of search space in the identification part reduces. Afterward, to identify the kiln’s model, Locally Linear Neuro-Fuzzy (LLNF) model is used. This model is trained by LOcally LInear MOdel Tree (LOLIMOT) algorithm which is an incremental tree-structure algorithm. Finally, with the model for normal condition of the kiln, the incident of abnormalities in output are detected based on the length of duration and magnitude of difference between the real output and model’s output. We distinguished three abnormal conditions in the kiln, two of which are known as common abnormal conditions and another one which was not characteristically known for cement experts either.

This paper presents an adaptive nonlinear control scheme aimed at the improvement of the handling properties of vehicles. The control inputs for steering intervention are the steering angle and wheel torque for each wheel, i.e., two control inputs for each wheel. The control laws are obtained from a nonlinear 7-degree-of-freedom (DOF) vehicle model. A main loop and eight cascade loops are the basic components of the integrated control system. In the main loop, tire friction forces are manipulated with the aim of canceling the nonlinearities in a way that the error dynamics of the feedback linearized system has sufficient degrees of exponential stability; meanwhile, the saturation limits of tires and the bandwidth of the actuators in the inner loops are taken into account. A modified inverse tire model is constructed to transform the desired tire friction forces to the desired wheel slip and sideslip angle. In the next step, these desired values, which are considered as setpoints, are tackled through the use of the inner loops with guaranteed tracking performance. The vehicle mass and mass moment of inertia, as unknown parameters, are estimated through parameter adaptation laws. The stability and error convergence of the integrated control system in the presence of the uncertain parameters, which is a very essential feature for the active safety means, is guaranteed by utilizing a Lyapunov function. Computer simulations, using a nonlinear 14-DOF vehicle model, are provided to demonstrate the desired tracking performance of the proposed control approach.

This paper investigates chaos control for scalar delayed chaotic systems using sliding mode control strategy. Sliding surface design is based on delayed feedback controller. It is shown that the proposed controller can achieve stability for an arbitrary unstable fixed point (UPF) or unstable periodic orbit (UPO) with arbitrary period. The chaotic system used in this study to illustrate the theoretical concepts is the well known Mackey–Glass model. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the designed nonlinear sliding mode controller.

A multiple-model adaptive controller is developed using the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) neural network. The considered controller which we name it as Multiple Controller via SOM (MCSOM) is evaluated on the pH neutralization plant. In MCSOM multiple models are identified using an SOM to cluster the model space. An improved switching algorithm based on excitation level of plant has also been suggested for systems with noisy environments. Identification of pH plant using SOM is discussed and performance of the multiple-model controller is compared to the Self Tuning Regulator (STR).

This paper proposes the generalized projective synchronization for chaotic systems via Gaussian Radial Basis Adaptive Backstepping Control. In the neural backstepping controller, a Gaussian radial basis function is utilized to on-line estimate the system dynamic function. The adaptation laws of the control system are derived in the sense of Lyapunov function, thus the system can be guaranteed to be asymptotically stable. The proposed method allows us to arbitrarily adjust the desired scaling by controlling the slave system. It is not necessary to calculate the Lyapunov exponents and the eigen values of the Jacobian matrix, which makes it simple and convenient. Also, it is a systematic procedure for generalized projective synchronization of chaotic systems and it can be applied to a variety of chaotic systems no matter whether it contains external excitation or not. Note that it needs only one controller to realize generalized projective synchronization no matter how much dimensions the chaotic system contains and the controller is easy to be implemented. The proposed method is applied to three chaotic systems: Genesio system, Rössler system, and Duffing system.

This paper suggests novel hybrid learning algorithm with stable learning laws for adaptive network based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) as a system identifier and studies the stability of this algorithm. The new hybrid learning algorithm is based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) for training the antecedent part and gradient descent (GD) for training the conclusion part. Lyapunov stability theory is used to study the stability of the proposed algorithm. This paper, studies the stability of PSO as an optimizer in training the identifier, for the first time. Stable learning algorithms for the antecedent and consequent parts of fuzzy rules are proposed. Some constraints are obtained and simulation results are given to validate the results. It is shown that instability will not occur for the leaning rate and PSO factors in the presence of constraints. The learning rate can be calculated on-line and will provide an adaptive learning rate for the ANFIS structure. This new learning scheme employs adaptive learning rate that is determined by input–output data.

This paper provides an extended pairing criterion based on the effective relative gain array. The extension is achieved in two steps. First, an energy based compromise between steady state gain and bandwidth information of the plant is proposed. Then, it is argued that the best pairing may depend on the closed-loop specifications. Thus, to make this extension practical and precise, a simple solution to take into account the bandwidth of the desired closed-loop plant is introduced. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, several examples are discussed. These examples include the cases where the conventional ERGA leads to an appropriate result and is in agreement with the proposed pairing criterion. They also include the cases where the original ERGA leads to an improper pairing while the proposed method achieves the acceptable pairs.

A new approach to adaptive control of chaos in a class of nonlinear discrete-time-varying systems, using a delayed state feedback scheme, is presented. It is discussed that such systems can show chaotic behavior as their parameters change. A strategy is employed for on-line calculation of the Lyapunov exponents that will be used within an adaptive scheme that decides on the control effort to suppress the chaotic behavior once detected. The scheme is further augmented with a nonlinear observer for estimation of the states that are required by the controller but are hard to measure. Simulation results for chaotic control problem of Jin map are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

Bioprocesses are involved in producing different pharmaceutical products. Complicated dynamics, nonlinearity and non-stationarity make controlling them a very delicate task. The main control goal is to get a pure product with a high concentration, which commonly is achieved by regulating temperature or pH at certain levels. This paper discusses model predictive control (MPC) based on a detailed unstructured model for penicillin production in a fed-batch fermentor. The novel approach used here is to use the inverse of penicillin concentration as a cost function instead of a common quadratic regulating one in an optimization block. The result of applying the obtained controller has been displayed and compared with the results of an auto-tuned PID controller used in previous works. Moreover, to avoid high computational cost, the nonlinear model is substituted with neuro-fuzzy piecewise linear models obtained from a method called locally linear model tree (LoLiMoT).

Due to uncertainties in system modeling as well as system parameters, current excitation systems are unable to perform quite satisfactorily over a wide range of operating conditions. In this paper a QFT-based excitation robust control is proposed which the above mentioned uncertainties are, somehow, considered. The Horowitz second method is employed in the design of the nonlinear QFT controller.

In this study, a new adaptive controller based on modified feedback error learning (FEL) approaches is proposed for load frequency control (LFC) problem. The FEL strategy consists of intelligent and conventional controllers in feedforward and feedback paths, respectively. In this strategy, a conventional feedback controller (CFC), i.e. proportional, integral and derivative (PID) controller, is essential to guarantee global asymptotic stability of the overall system; and an intelligent feedforward controller (INFC) is adopted to learn the inverse of the controlled system. Therefore, when the INFC learns the inverse of controlled system, the tracking of reference signal is done properly. Generally, the CFC is designed at nominal operating conditions of the system and, therefore, fails to provide the best control performance as well as global stability over a wide range of changes in the operating conditions of the system. So, in this study a supervised controller (SC), a lookup table based controller, is addressed for tuning of the CFC. During abrupt changes of the power system parameters, the SC adjusts the PID parameters according to these operating conditions. Moreover, for improving the performance of overall system, a recurrent fuzzy neural network (RFNN) is adopted in INFC instead of the conventional neural network, which was used in past studies. The proposed FEL controller has been compared with the conventional feedback error learning controller (CFEL) and the PID controller through some performance indices.

Current developments in the aerospace flight devices have led to a control system being designed in the presence of elastic behaviour. However, there are several ways to reduce the destructive effects of vibration in flexible systems. In this paper, a practical approach called ‘rigid model reference’ is extended to two vibration modes based on the gradient method. Furthermore, the existence of two dominant bending vibration modes in the output of measurement devices leads to a redesign of the control system. Robust stability of the new algorithm is investigated by using Kharitonov theorem. Simulation results illustrate considerable reduction of vibration effects on the output of measurement system considering the first and the second bending vibration modes.

In this paper, two types of multiple-model adaptive controllers are practically evaluated on a laboratory-scale pH neutralization process. The first one is supervisory switching multiple-model adaptive controller (SMMAC) whose model bank is fixed and selected a priori, and another one is a controller based on multiple models, switching, and tuning strategy (MMST) which uses the possibility of model bank tuning. In addition to investigation of the effect of tuning, the advantage of a disturbance rejection supervisor is studied. Various experiments and exhaustive numerical analyses are provided to assess the abilities of the proposed algorithms.

In this paper, after defining pure proportional navigation guidance in the 3-dimensional state from a new point of view, range estimation for passive homing missiles is explained. Modeling has been performed by using line of sight coordinates with a particular definition. To obtain convergent estimates of those state variables involved particularly in range channel and unavailable from IR trackers, nonlinear filters such as sequential U-D extended Kalman filter and Unscented Kalman filter in modified spherical coordinate combined with a modified proportional navigation guidance law are proposed. Simulation results indicate that the proposed tracking filters in conjunction with the dual guidance law are able to provide the convergence of the range estimate for both maneuvering and nonmaneuvering targets.

In this study, a new approach to solve the Sylvester equation, AX+ XA=-ВС is derived. The calculated cross-Gramian matrix, which results from the Sylvester equation, proposes a new input-output pairing analysis for stable multivariable plants. This new approach is based on the cross-Gramian matrix of SISO elementary subsystems built from the original MIMO plant and the main advantage of the method is its simplicity to choose the best input-output pair, though, it considers the plant dynamic properties.

This paper presents the adaptive control of chaotic systems, which are nonlinear in parameters (NLP). A method based on Lagrangian of an objective functional is used to identify the parameters of the system. Also this method is improved to result in better rate of convergence of the estimated parameters. Estimation results are used to calculate the Lyapunov exponents adaptively. Finally, the Lyapunov exponents placement method is used to assign the desired Lyapunov exponents of the closed loop system. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the results.

This Letter is concerned with bifurcation and chaos control in scalar delayed differential equations with delay parameter τ. By linear stability analysis, the conditions under which a sequence of Hopf bifurcation occurs at the equilibrium points are obtained. The delayed feedback controller is used to stabilize unstable periodic orbits. To find the controller delay, it is chosen such that the Hopf bifurcation remains unchanged. Also, the controller feedback gain is determined such that the corresponding unstable periodic orbit becomes stable. Numerical simulations are used to verify the analytical results.

In the present research, a non-linear controller is designed for the control of an active suspension system for a half-model vehicle, using a Fuzzy Neural Network (FNN) along with Feedback error learning. The purpose in a vehicle suspension system is reduction of transmittance of vibrational effects from the road to the vehicle chassis, hence providing ride comfort. This requires a minimum reduction in road contact along rough roads. In addition, the role of the suspension system in vehicle control along a curved route and in accelerating and braking is quite evident. To accomplish this, one can first design a PD controller for the suspension system, using a classic control method and use it to train a fuzzy controller. This controller can be trained using the PD controller output error on an online manner. Once trained, the PD controller is removed from the control loop and the neuro-fuzzy controller takes on. In case of a change in the parameters of the system under control, the PD controller enters the control loop again and the neural network gets trained again for the new condition. Important characteristics of the proposed controller is that no mathematical model is needed for the system components, such as the non-linear actuator, spring, or shock absorber, and that no system Jacobian is needed. The performance of the proposed FNN controller is compared with that of the PD controller through simulations. The results show that the proposed controller is indeed capable of meeting the stated control requirements.

The MMSOM identification method, which had been presented by the authors, is improved to the multiple modeling by the irregular self-organizing map (MMISOM) using the irregular SOM (ISOM). Inputs to the neural networks are parameters of the instantaneous model computed adaptively at every instant. The neural network learns these models. The reference vectors of its output nodes are estimation of the parameters of the local models. At every instant, the model with closest output to the plant output is selected as the model of the plant. ISOM used in this paper is a graph of all the nodes and some of the weighted links between them to make a minimum spanning tree graph. It is shown in this paper that it is possible to add new models if the number of models is initially less than the appropriate one. The MMISOM shows more flexibility to cover the linear model space of the plant when the space is concave.

In this paper, we use system identification methods for abnormal condition detection of a cement rotary kiln. After selecting proper inputs and output, an input-output model is identified for the plant. A novel approach is used in order to estimate the delays of the input channel of the kiln. By means of that, the identification task gets easier and the results are more accurate. To identify the kiln, Locally Linear Neuro-Fuzzy (LLNF) model is used. This model is trained by LOLIMOT algorithm which is an incremental tree-structure algorithm. Finally, a model for the healthy mode of the kiln is obtained through which it is possible to detect abnormal conditions in the process. We distinguished two common abnormal conditions in kiln and another one which was not characteristically known for cement experts as well.

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In this study, designing of multi-objective (MO) proportional, integral and derivative (PID) controller for load frequency control (LFC) based on adaptive weighted particle swarm optimization (AWPSO) has been proposed. Unlike single objective optimizations methods, MO optimization can find different solutions in a single run and we can select appropriate and desirable solution based on valuation to the objects. In this study for PID controller design, overshoot/undershoot and settling time are used as objective functions for MO optimization in LFC problem. So that various solutions with different overshoot/undershoot and settling time obtained. From these different PID parameters, one can select a single solution based on valuation to objects and as well as system constraints, reliability etc. The proposed method is used for designing of PID parameters for two area interconnected power system. From the simulation results, efficiency of proposed controller design can be seen.

In the present paper, an adaptive control approach for a flexible launch vehicle is proposed. This approach makes use of gain scheduling and model reference adaptive filter methods to control the flexible behaviours of the launch vehicle structure, which can lead to control system stability degradation. Applying this adaptive controller to an eight-degrees-of-freedom flexible launch vehicle, gives stable and desired responses. Because the designed adaptive controller adjusts only one single parameter and is designed based on the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) rule, it is simpler and faster than the other approaches. Therefore, this newly designed algorithm is less central processing unit-intensive, which makes it easier to implement in real-time applications.

Brain emotional learning based intelligent controller (BELBIC) is based on computational model of limbic system in the mammalian brain. In recent years, this model was applied in many linear and nonlinear control applications. Previous studies show that this controller has fast response, simple implementation and robustness with respect to disturbances. It is also possible to define emotional signal based on control application objectives. But in the previous studies, internal instability of this controller was not considered and control task were done in limited time period. In this article mathematical description of BELBIC is investigated and improved to avoid internal instability. Simulation and implementation of improved model was done on level plant. The obtained results showed that instability of model has been solved in the new model without loss of performance by using Integral Anti Windup (IAW).

Objective: To assess the validity of diagnoses obtained with the Iranian version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-I).Methods: This study was undertaken in two stages: (a) translation of SCID-I into Persian (Iranian language), (b) assessing the validity of the Persian version in a sample of Iranian patients. We recruited 299 psychiatric patients- including inpatients and ambulatory cases- from 3 teaching hospitals. A trained SCID interviewer administered the SCID and then two psychiatrists developed a consensus diagnosis, using data from multiple sources. Results: The degree of agreement between SCID interviews and psychiatrists' diagnosis ranged from "moderate" for obsessive-compulsive and major depressive disorders to "good" for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. With the psychiatrists’ diagnosis used as the gold standard, the SCID-based diagnosis showed high specificity and moderate to high sensitivity for most psychiatric diseases. Conclusion: The results of this study indicate that the Iranian version of the SCID is a valid instrument for diagnosis in clinical settings.

Balanced realization has the advantage of producing some valuable information on controllability and observability (C/O) of the plant. This specification was used in pairing of MIMO plants to some SISO subplants. Using balanced realization, the pairs with better C/O are selected. In this paper the problem of pairing based on balanced realization is interpreted as an assignment problem. Therefore the Hungarian algorithm can utilize to solve the pairing problem. The algorithm is fully systematic and may be utilize in online and adaptive pairing. The pairing algorithm is also developed to reject any undesired pair like uncontrollable and/or unobservable pairs. With some modification, it is also applied to nonsquare plants.

In this correspondence paper, a theorem is given based on the main results of Kariwala et al. 1 for input-output pairing analysis for uncertain multivariable systems. A method to compute the relative gains' variation bound of RGA to inputoutput pairing analysis is provided. The results can decrease the computational load in large-scale uncertain systems, solve the sensitivity analysis problem, and propose the appropriate pair, when there is no sign change for relative gains.

Decentralized control is a well established approach to control the multivariable processes. In this approach, control structure design and in particular input-output pairing is a vital stage in the design procedure. There are several powerful methods to select the appropriate input-output pair in linear multivariable systems. However, despite the fact that most practical processes are nonlinear, there is no general method to select the appropriate input-output pair for nonlinear multivariable systems. In this study, a new general approach to input-output pairing for linear and nonlinear multivariable systems is proposed. Simulation results are employed to show the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.

Voltage stability may be improved by various control functions. In this paper, it is shown that how High Side Voltage Control (HIVC) may be employed for this purpose. Two test systems, namely a 22-bus and IEEE U8-bus systems are used to demonstrate the proposed tuning strategy for HSVC control parameters.

Advanced high side voltage control (HSVC) regulation presents an attractive proposition for power system control. By proper tuning of its parameters, it can improve the voltage profile of the system. In this paper, we show how it can also enhance the loadability of a multimachine system. The genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to tune the parameters. Two test systems, a 21 bus and the IEEE 118 bus, are used to check the capability of the proposed algorithm.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the concept of 'Nonaffective Acute Remitting Psychosis' (NARP) in a group of first episode psychotic patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Tehran, Iran.Materials and Methods: The data are from a 24-month follow-up study of 54 first-episode non-organic psychotic patients admitted consecutively to an acute care academic hospital in Tehran, Iran. Patients were followed for two years at the time of discharge, as well as 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24-month intervals. At the end of follow-up, consensus judgments were made on the fulfillment of the NARP criteria as well as the course of illness and treatment. NARP was defined as a psychotic illness with acute onset (developed within 1 week), short duration (remission within 6 months since the onset), and the absence of prominent mood symptoms.Results: Five patients were lost to follow-up. Of remaining 49, 15 patients had NARP (9 women, 6 men) that constituted 30.6% of the sample and accounted for 60% of the patients with non-affective psychosis. Of these, 10 remained relapse free throughout the 24-month follow-up, four had a very short-lived relapse, and only one patient developed a chronic illness. Duration of the index episodes was under three months in all cases. In the course of follow-up, the patients with NARP received less months of treatment than did the patients with other non-affective psychoses.Conclusion: The strikingly high proportion of NARP diagnosis among patients with first episode psychosis, and the favorable course is in keeping with previous studies in developing countries.

One of the most important problems of delayed and nonlinear systems is to fulfill multiple goals simultaneously and in the best conditions. This paper presents a method for controlling systems with multiple goals. The method is based on context and has a neuro-fuzzy structure with capability of temporal difference learning. The proposed method, regarding the current status, prior system conditions, and current control goals, would be capable of controlling the system in a way that these goals are achieved in the best way and the least time. In order to clarify the issue and prove the capabilities of the proposed method two well-known control problems, achieving the multiple goals of which, in the best way and the least time, would be very difficult through manipulating other control methods, would be faced using the proposed method.

In this paper, different approaches to solve the forward kinematics of a three DOF actuator redundant hydraulic parallel manipulator are presented. On the contrary to series manipulators, the forward kinematic map of parallel manipulators involves highly coupled nonlinear equations, which are almost impossible to solve analytically. The proposed methods are using neural networks identification with different structures to solve the problem. The accuracy of the results of each method is analyzed in detail and the advantages and the disadvantages of them in computing the forward kinematic map of the given mechanism is discussed in detail. It is concluded that ANFIS presents the best performance compared to MLP, RBF and PNN networks in this particular application.

Time series processes can be classified to three models, linear models, stochastic models and chaotic models. Based on these classification the linear models are forecastable, the stochastic models are unforecastable and the chaotic models are semi forecastaable. The previouse researches in the modeling and forecasting of the stock price usually try to prove that, the fluctuations of the share prices in Tehran Stock Exchange are not random walks in spite of the existance similarity to the random walks. Indeed the market has a chaotic behavior. This means that, the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is failed. Therefore by using a complex and powerfull models such as artificial neural networks, one can forecast stock prices in tehran stock merket. This paper proposed another approach to modeling and forecasting of the share price. This approach is based on the Stochastic Differential Equations. The modeling is based on the Black- Scholes pricing model. Comparison the simulation result with the linear ARIMA model, indicates that the proposed structrure, provides an accurate next step and the long term share prices and daily returns forecasting.

One of the most important issues that we face in controlling delayed systems and non-minimum phase systems is to fulfill objective orientations simultaneously and in the best way possible. In this paper proposing a new method, an objective orientation is presented for controlling multi-objective systems. The principles of this method is based an emotional temporal difference learning, and has a neuro-fuzzy structure. The proposal method, regarding the present conditions, the system action in the part and the controlling aims, can control the system in a way that these objectives are attain in the least amount of time and the best way. To clarify the issue and verify the proposed the method, three well known control examples which are hard to handle through classic methods are handled by means of the proposed method.

In this paper, a method for estimating an attractor embedding dimension based on polynomial models and its application in investigating the dimension of Bremen climatic dynamics are presented. The attractor embedding dimension provides the primary knowledge for analyzing the invariant characteristics of the attractor and determines the number of necessary variables to model the dynamics. Therefore, the optimality of this dimension has an important role in computational efforts, analysis of the Lyapunov exponents, and efficiency of modeling and prediction. The smoothness property of the reconstructed map implies that, there is no self-intersection in the reconstructed attractor. The method of this paper relies on testing this property by locally fitting a general polynomial autoregressive model to the given data and evaluating the normalized one step ahead prediction error. The corresponding algorithms are developed in uni/multivariate form and some probable advantages of using information from other time series are discussed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown by simulation results of its application to some well-known chaotic benchmark systems. Finally, the proposed methodology is applied to two major dynamic components of the climate data of the Bremen city to estimate the related minimum attractor embedding dimension.

This paper presents a modified method for approximating systems by a sequence of ‎linear time varying systems. The convergence proof is outlined and the potential of ‎this methodology is discussed. Simulation results are used to show the effectiveness ‎of the proposed method‏.‏

The problem of Lyapunov Exponents (LEs) estimation from chaotic data based on Jacobian approach by polynomial models is considered. The optimum embedding dimension of reconstructed attractor is interpreted as suitable order of model. Therefore, based on global polynomial mode ling of system, a novel criterion for selecting the embedding dimension is presented. By considering this dimension as the model order, the best nonlinearity degree of polynomial is estimated. The selected structure is used for local estimating of Jacobians to calculate the LEs. This suitable structure of polynomial model leads to better results and avoids of sporious LEs. Simulation results show the effectiveness of proposed methodology.

Among the search engines, Google is one of the most powerful. It uses an accurate ranking algorithm to order web pages in search results. In this paper, it is shown that a simple linear model can approximately model the dynamics overning the behavior of Google. Least Squares is used for the system identification procedure. Identification results are provided to show the effectiveness of the identified system.

This paper presents a modified method for approximating nonlinear systems by a sequence of linear time varying systems. The convergence proof is outlined and the potential of this methodology is discussed. Simulation results are used to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

In this paper, the problem of achieving robust stability for linear large-scale systems by decentralized feedback is considered. Sufficient conditions for stability of closed-loop system are introduced. By appropriately assigning the eigenstructure of each isolated subsystem via output feedback or state feedback, these conditions are satisfied. Based on the eigenstructure assignment result and the matrix eigenvalue sensitivity theory, a method for decentralized robust stabilization is presented.

This paper considers the problem of achieving stability and certain performance for a large-scale system by a decentralised control feedback law. For a given large-scale system an equivalent descriptor system in input-output decentralised form is defined. For solving the performance problem which is formulated as the standard weighted mixed sensitivity H∞problem, modification of the original weighting functions is proposed. Some sufficient conditions are proposed when satisfied the overall stability and performance of the large-scale system is guaranteed.

In this paper a new method for robust decentralised control of large-scale systems using quantitative feedback theory (QFT) is suggested. For a given large-scale system an equivalent descriptor system is defined. Using this representation, closed-loop diagonal dominance sufficient conditions over the uncertainty space are derived. It is shown by appropriately choosing output disturbance rejection model in designing QFT controller for each isolated subsystem, these conditions are achieved. Then a single-loop quantitative feedback design scheme is applied to solve the resulting series of individual loops to guarantee the satisfaction of predefined MIMO quantitative specifications.

In this article a high-gain decentralized controller is designed for a large-scale system. The effects of the interactions between the subsystems are cosidered as uncertainty for the large-scale system. A bound on the high-gain factor is computed to nullify the effects of the interactions and also to ensure the overall closed-loop stability. In order to avoid saturation, the anti-windup integrator method is used in designing high-gain controller. Due to high-gain feedback, the closed-loop system is robust with respect to outputdisturbances and uncertainties.

This paper presents the application of neural networks for the adaptive leveling and gyrocompassing of stable platforms. The stable platform is a three input and two output nonlinear plant, and the control of its error dynamics (leveling) is of vital importance for the proper operation of the inertial navigation systems of aircraft. Also, another important preflight step in the inertial navigation system using the stable platform is gyrocompassing. Gyrocompassing provides the navigation system with the wander angle, which is the angle between the Y-axis of the stable platform and true north.In this paper, neural networks are employed to identify the dynamics of the platform and to level it, based on the identified neural model; gyrocompassing is also performed using an inverse neural identification of the stable platform. In order to show the effectiveness of the proposed neural adaptive controller for platform leveling and gyrocompassing, the results of practical leveling tests performed on an inertial navigation unit of a fighter aircraft and simulation results for gyrocompassing are presented.

Quantitative design of robust control systems proposes a transparent and practical controller design methodology for uncertain single-input single-output and multivariable plants. There are several steps involved in the design of such controllers. The main steps involved in the design are template generation, loop shaping and pre-filter design. In the case of multivariable uncertain plants, manipulation of tolerance bounds within the available freedom, for both sequential and non-sequential designs, consideration of template size of next step in sequential design, and the appropriate selection of the nominal transfer function matrices in the equivalent disturbance attenuation design are also crucial steps. In all the quantitative designs, a time-consuming trial-and-error procedure is adapted and a successful compromise between various design requirements is very much dependent on the designer experience and expertise. In this paper, these steps are reformulated in terms of different cost functions, and it is shown that the optimization of these cost functions leads to an optimal design of quantitative controllers, for both single input single output and multivariable plants. This proposes a nonlinear constrained optimization problem that can be easily solved using any of the random optimization techniques. Simulation results are used to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

This paper deals with the design and implementation of a robust controller for the static VAR compensator (SVC) in remote industrial power system, to enhance the voltage profile for three phase single cage induction motor (SCIM) loads. The controller design is based on μ-synthesis method to deal with uncertainties arising in industrial network modeling. The performance of the controller has been evaluated extensively by non-linear time domain simulation. It is concluded that the robust controller enhances the voltage profile for SCIM loads compared with conventional SVC type (CSVC), which consist of voltage and current feedback loops.

Singular perturbation methods are used to demonstrate that the step-response matrices of linear multivariable systems containing small ‘parasitic” elements have a distinctive structure which guarantees the robustness of both non-adaptive and adaptive controllers for such systems incorporating step-response matrices. The significance of these results in relation to the modelling of multivariable plants with ‘fast” actuators and sensors is illustrated, and their validity is demonstrated by considering a typical gas-turbine jet engine.

Since many industrial processes are essentially linear multivariable type-one plants (i.e. linear multivariable plants with unbounded step-response matrices but with bounded impulse-response matrices), the methodologies of Porter and Jones (1986) for linear multivariable type-zero plants are extended to embrace such linear multivariable type-one plants. It is shown that the proportional and derivative controller matrices in the resulting PD controllers can be directly determined from open-loop impulse-response tests performed on linear multivariable type-one plants. The disturbance-rejection properties of these controllers are fully developed by modifying the digital PD controller by the inclusion of an outer PID loop. The robustness propertcs of these PD-PID controllers are assessed by characterizing, in terms of the steady-state impulse-response matrices of nominal and actual plants, the admissible plant perturbations that can be tolerated. The effectiveness of this design methodology is illustrated by designing a tunable digital set-point tracking PD-PID controller for a steel mill.

It is shown that, by incorporating on-line recursive identifiers to provide updated steady-state plant transfer function matrices for inclusion in digital proportional-plus-integral control laws, highly robust adaptive digital set-point tracking PI controllers can be readily designed for nonminiraum-phase multivariable plants. The effectiveness of this methodology in the absence of precise a priori information concerning plant order is illustrated by designing an adaptive digital set-point tracking PI controller for a distillation column with nonminimum-phase characteristics using both exactly parametrised and grossly underparametrised models.