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Composite adaptive control (CAC) that integrates direct and indirect adaptive control techniques can achieve smaller tracking errors and faster parameter convergence compared with direct and indirect adaptive control techniques. However,…

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an iterative identification process that serves to minimize the misfit of model-based simulated and experimentally measured wave field data, with the goal of identifying a field of parameters for a given…

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Iterative Learning Control (ILC) is useful in spacecraft application for repeated high precision scanning maneuvers. Repetitive Control (RC) produces effective active vibration isolation based on frequency response. This paper considers ILC…

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