Abstract: A generalized procedure has been advanced for path identification in complex multiloop interconnected directed networks. Reference to transportation networks has been made for the sake of specificity ...

Abstract: A systematic synthesis procedure is developed for ensuring an absence of limit cycles in nonlinear systems. Compensator parameter plots, subject to specified constraints, are generated in parameter ...

Abstract: The general framework of interactions between technology and individual human beings, and between technology and society, is discussed. The principles underlying the process of technology assessment ...

Abstract: A systematic design procedure is presented for suboptimal nonlinear controller synthesis. Such a control yields faster response characteristics than are normally possible with a linear controller. ...

Abstract: Compensator design results are compared for the circle and Popov criteria, both of which are sufficiency conditions for absolute stability of nonlinear control systems. Analog simulation studies ...

Abstract: This paper presents a two-degree-of-freedom model for magnetically levitated finite-length vehicles incorporating sway and yaw dynamics. Aerodynamic lateral forces and yawing moments on the vehicle ...

Abstract: A nonlinear analytical model for the dominant low-frequency dynamic behavior of flexible-skirt air cushion suspensions is developed using bond graph notation. The model includes nonlinear fluid ...