ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control: Recent submissions

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    • Disturbance Modeling and Prediction of ClosedLoop MicroActuator Stroke Usage in DualStage Hard Disk Drives 

      Chakraborty, Manash;Caverly, Ryan J. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      This letter presents a method to model the disturbance environment of a dualstage hard disk drive (HDD), which is then used to predict the actuator stroke usage (i.e., the range of actuator displacement used) of a closedloop ...

    • Mechanism Design and Control of a Winged Hovering Robot With Flapping Angle Constraint 

      Vejdani, Hamid;Haji, LaRance;Fernandez, Vernon;Jawad, Badih (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      In this paper, we first presented a fourbar linkage mechanism for actuating the wings in a flapping wing flying robot. After that, given the additional constraints imposed by the fourbar linkage, we parameterized the wing ...

    • H2 Performance Analysis of Tractors Traveling on Rough Terrain 

      Izumi, Shinsaku;Hayashida, Riku;Xin, Xin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      This article considers tractors traveling on rough terrain and studies the effects of the road surfaces on their behavior. Clarifying these effects is useful for their stable traveling on rough terrain, which contributes ...

    • Model Predictive Tracking Control With Parameter Estimation for Spin-Stabilized Indirect Fire Symmetric Projectiles 

      Nash, Austin L. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      Impact point prediction, estimation, and control is a critical component of many smart weapons applications. In this work, I propose a method for estimating and controlling impact points of indirect fire launches for a ...

    • Systematic Synthesis of a Class of Smooth Parameter Projection Operators for Stable Adaptive Systems 

      Zhou, Xingyu;Wang, Zejiang;Shen, Heran;Wang, Junmin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      In this letter, a systematic synthesis of a new class of smooth parameter projection operators is presented. To elaborate such an approach, the adaptive control problem for a nth-order, single-input, linearly parametrizable, ...

    • On Prandtl–Ishlinskii Hysteresis Modeling of a Loaded Pneumatic Artificial Muscle 

      Al Saaideh, Mohammad;Al Janaideh, Mohammad (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      Modeling of the hysteresis nonlinearities of the pneumatic artificial muscle (PAM) is critical when it is proposed to drive various high-precision mechatronics applications. This letter aims to characterize the hysteresis ...

    • Row Allocation Negotiation for a Fleet of Strawberry Harvesting Robots 

      Mapes, Madeline;Xu, Yunjun (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      Cooperative small harvesting robots, mimicking a group of human pickers, have the potential to significantly reduce labor dependence in strawberry production. A tri-layered algorithm is investigated to effectively assign ...

    • Robust Control of a Biophysical Model of Burst Suppression 

      Ampleman, Stephen;Ching, ShiNung (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      Burst suppression is a phenomenon in which the electroencephalogram (EEG) of a pharmacologically sedated patient alternates between higher frequency and amplitude bursting to lower frequency and amplitude suppression. The ...

    • Adaptive Design of Experiments for Automotive Engine Applications Using Concurrent Bayesian Optimization 

      Zhu, Ling;Wang, Yan;Pal, Anuj;Zhu, Guoming G. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      Most practical automotive problems require the design of experiments (DoEs) over a number of different operating conditions to deliver optimal calibration parameters. DoE is especially crucial for automotive engine calibration ...

    • Reviewer’s Recognition 

      Unknown author (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      The Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board of the ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing manuscripts in 2021. Serving as reviewers ...

    • Yaw-Rate-Tracking-Based Automated Vehicle Path Following: An MRAC Methodology With a Closed-Loop Reference Model 

      Zhou, Xingyu; Wang, Zejiang; Shen, Heran; Wang, Junmin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Concerning automated vehicles, various path-following controllers have been designed by the model reference adaptive control (MRAC) approach. Through appropriate Lyapunov redesigns, asymptotical stability and signal ...

    • Fisher Identifiability Analysis of Longitudinal Vehicle Dynamics 

      Kandel, Aaron; Wahba, Mohamed; Fathy, Hosam K. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      This article investigates the theoretical Cramér-Rao bounds on estimation accuracy of longitudinal vehicle dynamics parameters. This analysis is motivated by the value of parameter estimation in various applications, ...

    • Multi-Model Structured H-Infinity Design of a Robust and Aggressive Turbofan Jet Engine Controller 

      Authié, Patrick (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Jet engine control comprises tracking either the fan speed or engine pressure ratio setpoints. Further, safe operation entails maintaining several additional parameters, such as high-pressure turbine temperature, combustor ...

    • Balancing Inverted Pendulum Cart on Inclines Using Accelerometers 

      Woods, Cole; Vikas, Vishesh (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      The balance of inverted pendulum on inclined surfaces is the precursor to their control in unstructured environments. Researchers have devised control algorithms with feedback from contact (encoders—placed at the pendulum ...

    • An Efficient Design Procedure for MEMS Electrothermal Microgripper 

      Roy, Ananya; Sarkar, Rajasree; Banerjee, Arunava; un Nabi, Mashuq (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      With the development of miniaturization technology, micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) electrothermal microgrippers have been widely used owing to their compact size, ease of manufacturing, and low production cost. Since ...

    • Speed- and Range-Based Filter Design for Dual-Stage Actuator Control 

      Peyton Jones, J. C.; Mitrovic, A.; Clayton, G. M. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Dual-stage actuators, which combine two actuators with different characteristics, have gained interest due to their large-range, high-resolution positioning capabilities. Control of such systems is challenging because it ...

    • A Novel Concept for Energy-Optimal, Independent-Phase Control of Brushless Motor Drivers 

      Ghorbanpour, Amin; Richter, Hanz (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      In this work, a new drive concept for brushless direct current (BLDC) motors is introduced. Energy regeneration is optimally managed with the aim of improving the energy efficiency of robot motion controls. The proposed ...

    • Oscillations of Air Cavity Under Hull of Accelerating Boat 

      Matveev, Konstantin I. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      Substantial reduction of ship drag is achievable with air cavities arranged on the hull bottom. However, the air cavities can become unstable, particularly in unsteady environments such as sea waves. Oscillations of cavities ...

    • Convolutional Networks for Classification of Mortars 

      Lebbad, Anderson; Clayton, Garrett M.; Nataraj, C. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      The task of classifying unexploded mortars is critical in both humanitarian and military explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) operations. Classification needs to be completed quickly and accurately and is the first step toward ...

    • Equations of Motion of Dynamical Systems From Kinematic Characteristics of the Phase Space 

      Das, Tuhin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      In the analysis of most engineering dynamical systems, relativistic considerations are unnecessary, allowing an absolute time and simultaneity of events to be assumed. In this article, it is first established that this ...