Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control: Recent submissions
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Virtual Model Development of the Load Application System of a Wind Turbine Nacelle Test Bench for Hybrid Test Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)The existing nacelle testing methods require continuous improvements to satisfy the ever-increasing demands for testing modern wind turbines. One way to achieve this goal is to use advanced simulation techniques to undertake ... -
Motion Tracking of a High-Speed Multilink System Using Dynamic Measurements Fusion
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)This paper presents a technique for tracking the high-speed motion of a multilink system using inertial measurement units (IMUs) in a new sensor arrangement, an approach which is referred to as dynamic measurements fusion. ... -
Exergy Management Strategies for Hybrid Electric Ground Vehicles: A Dynamic Programming Solution
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In this work, exergy management strategies (ExMSs) for hybrid electric ground vehicles (HEVs) are developed. The main advantage of using the exergetic framework is the possibility of pursuing unconventional optimization ... -
A Differential Error-Based Self-Triggered Model Predictive Control With Adaptive Prediction Horizon for Discrete Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)For discrete time nonlinear networked control systems, a novel self-triggered adaptive model predictive control (MPC) strategy is developed. Different from the existing self-triggered MPC methods that determine the triggering ... -
Event-Triggered Model-Free Adaptive Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot With Time Delay and External Disturbance Based on Discrete-Time Extended State Observer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2023)In this paper, an improved model-free adaptive control strategy is proposed for the trajectory tracking problem of the wheeled mobile robot (WMR) with time-delay and bounded disturbance. Firstly, the original nonlinear ... -
Model Predictive Control of a Multi-Mode Suspension System Using Preview Information and Weight Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 4/24/2023 )This study examines the effectiveness of a model predictive controller (MPC) on the multimode active suspension concept to reduce driver absorbed power. A multimode suspension uses additional degrees-of-freedom beyond a ... -
On the Benefits and Limitations of Modulated Damping With Passive Motor Control
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/15/2023 )Conventional emulated damping, in which velocity feedback is employed in combination with motor current control to emulate damping, is used in a number of mechatronic applications. As known in the field, although such ... -
Control Oriented Modeling, Experimentation, and Stability Analysis of an Autorotating Samara
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/15/2023 )This paper presents a control-oriented model for describing the steady-state and dynamic behavior of a single-winged samara seed-pod in autorotative descent. A negligible lateral center of mass motion and constant, prescribed ... -
Model-Free H∞ Output Feedback Control of Road Sensing in Vehicle Active Suspension Based on Reinforcement Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 5/2/2023 1)An active suspension system ensures the controllability of a vehicle in the vertical direction, which greatly enhances the control redundancy and safety of an intelligent driven vehicle. However, many calibrated model ... -
Rotorcraft Robotic Landing Gear With Locking Mechanisms
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 4/26/2023 )Robotic landing gear (RLG) for rotorcraft improves performance in landing on sloped uneven terrain, unprepared areas, and ship decks. The interaction between the feet of the RLG and the landing surface are pivotal to a ... -
Differential Flatness of Slider–Pusher Systems for Constrained Time Optimal Collision Free Path Planning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 4/26/2023 )In this work, we show that the differential kinematics of slider–pusher systems are differentially flat assuming quasi-static behavior and frictionless contact. Second, we demonstrate that the state trajectories are invariant ... -
Koopman Model Predictive Control of an Integrated Thermal Management System for Electric Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 4/13/2023 )This paper is concerned with energy efficient operation of an integral thermal management system (ITMS) for electric vehicles using a nonlinear model predictive control (MPC). Driven by a heat pump (HP), this ITMS can ... -
Hybrid Kinematic-Dynamic Sideslip and Friction Estimation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 4/3/2023 1)Vehicle sideslip and tyre/road friction are crucial variables for advanced vehicle stability control systems. Estimation is required since direct measurement through sensors is costly and unreliable. In this paper, we ... -
Discrete Robust Control of Robot Manipulators Using an Uncertainty and Disturbance Estimator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 3/20/2023 )This article presents the design of a robust observer based on the discrete-time (DT) formulation of uncertainty and disturbance estimator (UDE), a well-known robust control technique, for the purpose of controlling robot ... -
Self-Triggered Model Predictive Control With Sample-and-Hold Fashion for Constrained Continuous-Time Linear Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 1/11/2023 )A novel self-triggered model predictive control (STMPC) strategy for linear constrained systems with additive disturbance is presented in this paper. The actuator adopts the control input from the controller by sample-and-hold ... -
Synthesis of Recursive Control Barrier Functions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 12/9/2022 )This paper deals with the enforcement of safety constraints using control barrier functions (CBFs). We focus on dynamic systems that have high relative degree and where the output needs to be differentiated multiple times ... -
Inverse Optimal Control for Maximizing Harvested Energy From Dynamical Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 11/11/2022)This paper formulates and solves a new problem of inverse optimal control to maximize harvested energy from dynamical systems induced by external excitations. An inverse optimal control law is designed to minimize a cost ... -
Performance Prediction of an Axial Piston Pump With Increasing Severity of Leakage Fault in Single and Multiple Cylinders
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 11/11/2022)As axial piston pumps (APP) become increasingly compact to meet the size, weight, and performance demands (high pressure ratings), they are prone to wear, and hence the leakage between the sliding parts, which run under ... -
Control Design for a Marine Hydrokinetic Cycloturbine Vehicle
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 10/28/2022)Marine Hydrokinetic (MHK) cycloturbines generate sustainable power by exploiting tidal currents. By powering the turbines and using pitching foils for control, a vehicle comprised of MHK cycloturbines also has the ability ... -
An Adaptive Decoupling Register Control Method for Roll-to-Roll Printing Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 8/25/2023 )Model-based decoupling control methods have been widely used in the register control of Roll-to-Roll (R2R) printing systems due to their advantage in dealing with couplings. While they achieve a certain decoupling effect, ...