Abstract: A switched feedback control law is derived for an autonomous pursuing agent that attempts to intercept an evading agent whose dynamics are initially unknown. The model of the pursuer’s dynamics ...

Abstract: While piezoelectric (PZT) actuators exhibit only mild nonlinear response at low voltage levels, it is well known that the response can be profoundly nonlinear at high field strengths. Moreover, the use of mechanical linkages ...

Abstract: This paper defines a modal scheduling method for obtaining reduced order systems. In contrast to most order reduction schemes for linear structural systems, the methodology in this paper introduces a switched system to ...

Abstract: While the potential for the use of synthetic jet actuators to achieve flow control has been noted for some time, most of such flow control studies have been empirical or experimental in ...