Abstract: Compensators are designed for a plant to optimize its transient response during load disturbances and changes in reference input, and subject to constraints on plant input, peak displacements ...

Abstract: An interactive method for manually performing one-dimensional searches is presented. The user computes the function at selected points and the results at each iteration are graphically displayed. ...

Abstract: A procedure is developed for drawing contours of an objective function and constraints in two dimensions. Polynomial expressions are first obtained for the design objective and the constraints. ...

Abstract: A shock absorber with nth order stiffness and mth order damping is designed for optimum response to a step change in base velocity (an acceleration impulse). The objective of the design is ...