Abstract: The optimal method of preventing occupational illnesses, injuries, and fatalities is to

Abstract: Rubber is an amorphous elastomer of high entropy that is normally treated by statistical thermodynamics instead of molecular modeling. A pseudo-amorphous model is introduced that is useful in ...

Abstract: A nonlinear variable structure control strategy is combined with the reaction invariant to control pH in a mixing tank with process delay. A nonlinear predictor is utilized to estimate the ...

Abstract: Westinghouse experience in burning heavy residual fuels in gas turbines dates back 25 years when such fuels were burned in a 2000 hp turbine powering a locomotive. In this paper we present ...

Abstract: The methods of Gaussian linearization along with a new Gaussian Criterion used in the prediction of the stationary output variances of stable nonlinear oscillators subjected to both stochastic ...

Abstract: A design methodology capable of dealing with nonlinear systems containing parameter uncertainty is presented. A generalized sensitivity analysis is incorporated which utilizes sampling of the ...

Abstract: A sub-optimal nonlinear controller which is synthesized by using the external linearization approach is applied to the optimal control of stochastic parametrically and externally excited nonlinear ...

Abstract: The Lagrangian dynamic equation and statistical linearization for an n-dimensional manipulator subjected to both stochastic base and external excitations and geometric constraints in states are ...

Abstract: This paper presents a method for identification of parameters and delays of a linear system in the presence of noise. The estimation procedure is based on transforming the input-output data ...

Abstract: The design of sliding observers is discussed in the paper. The sliding observer is shown to have a simple structure and to be robust with respect to bounded nonlinearities and uncertainties. ...