Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control: Recent submissions
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Optimization-Driven Controller Design for a High-Performance Electro-Hydrostatic Asymmetric Actuator Operating in All Quadrants
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents an optimization-driven controller design for smooth and accurate position control of a single-rod electrohydrostatic actuator. The design approach uses logically guided iterative runs of the electrohydrostatic ... -
A Probabilistic Approach for Contact Stability and Contact Safety Analysis of Robotic Intracardiac Catheter
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The disturbances caused by the blood flow and tissue surface motions are major concerns during the motion planning of an intracardiac robotic catheter. Maintaining a stable and safe contact on the desired ablation point ... -
Model-Based Predictive Control and Dithering Control for an Integrated Gasoline Engine and Three-Way Catalytic Converter System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Controls of integrated gasoline engine and aftertreatment systems are critical for fuel efficiency improvement and emission regulation. This paper aims to develop novel model-based three-way catalytic converter (TWC) ... -
Novel Integrated Active and Passive Control of Fluid-Borne Noise in Hydraulic Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Fluid-borne noise (FBN) is a major contributor to structure-borne noise (SBN) and air-borne noise (ABN) in hydraulic fluid power systems and could lead to increased fatigue in system components. FBN is caused by the unsteady ... -
Measurement and Evaluation of the Stiffness Characteristics of Precision Spring Tubes in Hydraulic Servovalves
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The spring tube is the core component of the hydraulic servovalve, and its stiffness characteristics determine the sensitivity of the servovalve. For the difficulty in measuring and ensuring the stiffness of spring tube ... -
Vision-Based Uncertainty-Aware Lane Keeping Strategy Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Recent deep learning techniques promise high hopes for self-driving cars while there are still many issues to be addressed such as uncertainties (e.g., extreme weather conditions) in learned models. In this work, for the ... -
Upper Bound of Power Harvested by an On-Off Electrical Damping in a State Space System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents the theoretical upper bound of the harvested power, which is amplified by a generalized electrical damping switching controller in a linear time invariant system. The upper bound is found by maximizing ... -
Consistent Approximation of Fractional Order Operators
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Fractional order controllers become increasingly popular due to their versatility and superiority in various performances. However, the bottleneck in deploying these tools in practice is related to their analog or numerical ... -
Predictive Force-Centric Emergency Collision Avoidance
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)A controller for critical vehicle maneuvering is proposed that avoids obstacles and keeps the vehicle on the road while achieving heavy braking. It operates at the limit of friction and is structured in two main steps: a ... -
Experimental Validation of a Bio-Inspired Thruster
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Bio-inspired solutions have been deeply investigated in the last two decades as a source of propulsive improvement for autonomous underwater vehicles. Despite the efforts made to pursue the substantial potential payoffs ... -
Nonlinear Feedback Control of the Inductrack System Based on a Transient Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)As a new strategy for magnetic levitation envisioned in the 1990s, the Inductrack system with Halbach arrays of permanent magnets has been intensively researched. The previous investigations discovered that an uncontrolled ... -
On Using a Low-Density Flash Lidar for Road Vehicle Tracking
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This study uses a low-density solid-state flash lidar for estimating the trajectories of road vehicles in vehicle collision avoidance applications. Low-density flash lidars are inexpensive compared to the commonly used ... -
Simultaneous Fault Detection and Control for Continuous-Time Switched Takagi–Sugeno Fuzzy Systems With State Jumps
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This article addresses the simultaneous fault detection and control (SFDC) issue for switched Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy systems with state jumps. The main objective is to design robust detection filters and observer-based ... -
A Hybrid Contact Model With Experimental Validation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This brief paper emphasizes on the experimental study of a hybrid contact model combining a traditional physical-based contact model and a data-driven error model in order to provide a more accurate description of a contact ... -
A Robust Impedance Controller for Improved Safety in Human–Robot Interaction
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents a novel impedance controller modified with a switching strategy for the purpose of improving safety in human–robot interactions. Under normal operating conditions, an impedance controller is enabled ... -
Transverse Vibration of Geared-Rotor Integrated With Active Magnetic Bearings in Identification of Multiple Faults
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents a novel concept of the modeling, active control of transverse vibration responses, and identification of fault parameters in a geared-rotor system integrated with active magnetic bearings (AMBs). The ... -
An Optimal Control Approach for Consensus of General Linear Time-Invariant Multi-Agent Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this paper, the consensus problem for general linear time-invariant (LTI) multi-agent systems (MASs) with a single input is studied in a new optimal control framework. The optimal cooperative control law is designed ... -
Robustification Through Minimax Dynamic Programing and Its Implication for Hybrid Vehicle Energy Management Strategies
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) control strategies are often designed around specific driving conditions. However, when driving conditions differ from the designed conditions, HEV performance can suffer. This paper develops ... -
Plant and Controller Optimization for Power and Energy Systems With Model Predictive Control
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This article explores the optimization of plant characteristics and controller parameters for electrified mobility. Electrification of mobile transportation systems, such as automobiles and aircraft, presents the ability ... -
Leader-Following Consensus Over Acyclic Switching Digraphs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The existing results on the leader-following consensus problem for linear continuous-time multi-agent systems over jointly connected switching digraphs rely on the assumption that the system matrices do not have eigenvalues ...