Abstract: It is shown that a linear strictly unstable system with actuation limits cannot be stabilized globally, regardless of whatever control methodology is applied. This has important implications for ...

Abstract: It is shown that a special zero phase control (ZPC) system introduced by Tomizuka is L ∞ stable against a large class of common nonlinearities. However, it still suffers from the generic ...

Abstract: A direct adaptive rapid tracking methodology for tracking complex trajectories in short-duration, linear, possibly slowly varying, and/or imprecisely known, industrial processes is proposed. The ...

Abstract: Internal waves produced by a ship traveling faster than the fastest internal waves (supersonic case) were investigated experimentally in our laboratory in a wide tank using averaging conductivity ...

Abstract: The tube-to-tubesheet joint analysis can be greatly simplified by considering a single tube surrounded by an annular sleeve representing the tubesheet. One of the problems is how to choose the ...

Abstract: An automatic trajectory optimization scheme, which takes the system dynamics into account, is presented in this paper. It is developed for use in conjunction with the rapid-tracking learning ...