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Bus-clamping Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) is an effective method to reduce the switching loss in a three-phase voltage source inverter (VSI). In bus-clamping PWM scheme, the phase legs are switched using high frequency PWM signals for…
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Active feedback stabilization of the dominant resistive wall mode (RWM) for an ITER H-mode scenario at high plasma pressure using infinite-horizon model predictive control (MPC) is presented. The MPC approach is closely-related to…
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This paper addresses the problem of designing an anti-windup like compensator for discrete-time linear control systems with quantized input. The proposed compensator provides a correction signal proportional to the quantization error that…
Robust finite-time feedback controller introduced for the second-order systems in [1] can be seen as a non-overshooting quasi-continuous sliding mode control. The paper proposes a regularization scheme to suppress inherent chattering due to…
We present a mathematical and numerical analysis on a control model for the time evolution of a multi-layered piezoelectric cantilever with tip mass and moment of inertia, as developed by Kugi and Thull [31]. This closed-loop control system…
Online collision-free trajectory generation within a shared workspace is fundamental for most multi-robot applications. However, many widely-used methods based on model predictive control (MPC) lack theoretical guarantees on the feasibility…
Stabilization of a nonlinear single stage inverted pendulum is a complicated control problem, as nonlinearity is present inherently and external factors affect the equilibrium position. In this paper, a PD sliding mode controller is…
Ramp metering, which regulates the flow entering the freeway, is one of the most effective freeway traffic control methods. This paper introduces an output-feedback adaptive approach to ramp metering that combines model predictive control…
In distributed multi-agent navigation without explicit communication, agents can fall into symmetry-induced deadlocks because each agent must autonomously decide how to pass others. To address this problem, we propose WNumMPC, a…
Ratio control for two interacting processes is proposed with a PID feedforward design based on model predictive control (MPC) scheme. At each sampling instant, the MPC control action minimizes a state-dependent performance index associated…
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The proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control law is often overlooked as a computational imitation of the critic control in human decision. This paper provides a formulation to remedy this problem. Further, based on the characteristic…
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This work aims to raise awareness among engineering students from different disciplines on the importance of feedback control. The proposal consists in comparing the performance of different control strategies in a laboratory session,…
We address the problem of verifying closed-loop contraction in nonlinear control systems whose controller and contraction metric are both parameterized by neural networks. By leveraging interval analysis and interval bound propagation, we…