Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control: Recent submissions
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An Economic Model Predictive Control Approach for Wind Power Smoothing and Tower Load Mitigation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Wind power intermittency represents one of the major challenges facing the future growth of grid-connected wind energy projects. The integration of wind turbines and energy storage systems (ESS) provides a viable approach ... -
Experimental Investigation on the Lumped Model of Nonlinear Rocker–Rocker Mechanism With Flexible Coupler
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The nonlinear and flexible effects on the continuum dynamics of rocker–rocker flexible mechanism are investigated. An experimental rocker–rocker mechanism with flexible coupler was first established. The flexible mechanism ... -
Symbolic Time Series Analysis for Anomaly Detection in Measure-Invariant Ergodic Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents a novel framework of symbolic time series analysis (STSA) for anomaly detection in dynamical systems. The core concept is built upon a property of measure-preserving transformation (MPT) sequence, acting ... -
Methodological and Technical Aspects of a Two-Degrees-of-Freedom Hardware-In-the-Loop Setup for Wind Tunnel Tests of Floating Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This paper presents the methodological and technical aspects of the implementation of a hardware-in-the-loop experimental setup, suitable to simulate the dynamics of a floating system in wind tunnel experiments. The presented ... -
Distributed Temperature Control in Laser-Based Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Temperature control is essential for regulating material properties in laser-based manufacturing. Motion and power of the scanning laser affect local temperature evolution, which in turn determines the a posteriori ... -
Erratum: “Motion Equations for the Ball and Beam and the Ball and Arc Systems” [ASME J. Dyn. Sys., Meas., Control., 2019, 141(12), p. 121006; DOI: 10.1115/1.4044619]
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)In the original publication, Fig. 4 should state the references used were Refs. [7] and [8]. The caption of the paper is correct.On page 121006-7, under the subsection, “Comparison to Common Ball and Beam Models,” a ... -
Robust Adaptive Control of PEMFC Air Supply System Based on Radical Basis Function Neural Network
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This technical brief emphasizes on the control of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) air supply system. The control objective is to improve the net power output through adjusting the oxygen excess ratio within ... -
Extended State Observer Based Robust Friction Compensation for Tracking Control of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents an extended state observer (ESO) based robust friction compensation scheme for trajectory tracking control of a three-wheeled omnidirectional mobile robot. The proposed approach is practical in ... -
On the High-Temperature Free Vibration Analysis of Elastically Supported Functionally Graded Material Plates Under Mechanical In-Plane
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In this article, the effect of Pasternak foundation on free axisymmetric vibration of functionally graded circular plates subjected to mechanical in-plane force and a nonlinear temperature distribution (NTD) along the ... -
Enhancing the Performance of a Safe Controller Via Supervised Learning for Truck Lateral Control
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Correct-by-construction techniques, such as control barrier functions (CBFs), can be used to guarantee closed-loop safety by acting as a supervisor of an existing legacy controller. However, supervisory-control intervention ... -
Hidden Markov Modeling-Based Decision-Making Using Short-Length Sensor Time Series
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Real-time decision-making (e.g., monitoring and active control of dynamical systems) often requires feature extraction and pattern classification from short-length time series of sensor data. An example is thermoacoustic ... -
Dynamic Modeling and Adaptive Control of a Single Degree-of-Freedom Flexible Cable-Driven Parallel Robot
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper investigates the dynamic modeling and adaptive control of a single degree-of-freedom flexible cable-driven parallel robot (CDPR). A Rayleigh–Ritz cable model is developed that takes into account the changes in ... -
Wind Turbine Participation in Primary Frequency Control
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Wind energy is a clean and desirable power source, but wind turbines can potentially operate to the detriment of grid stability. As wind turbine penetration increases, concerns grow regarding power intermittency and frequency ... -
Multimodal Tuning of an Axisymmetric Resonator
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper reports an approach for the simultaneous elimination of the modal frequency differences within two pairs of modes in an axisymmetric resonator. Fabricated devices exhibit frequency detuning, which can be eliminated ... -
System Identification Based on Output-Only Decomposition and Subspace Appropriation
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Output-only identification methods have been developed on a stochastic framework, but for the first time, a subspace-based approach is proposed without using geometric and statistical tools. This aids the computational ... -
Simulation Studies Comparing Feedback Predictive Control to Model Predictive Control for Unmeasured Disturbances in the Artificial Pancreas Application
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The artificial pancreas (AP) is an electro-mechanical device to control glucose (G) levels in the blood for people with diabetes using mathematical modeling and control system technology. There are many variables not ... -
Robust Output Regulation of a Class of Nonlinear Systems Via Disturbance Observer in the Presence of Matched and Unmatched Uncertainties
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The purpose of this paper is to propose a controller for nonlinear systems to achieve robust asymptotic tracking of a class of reference signals, in the presence of matched and unmatched disturbances and model uncertainties. ... -
Robust Functional Interval Observer for Multivariable Linear Systems
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The study of a continuous-time multivariable linear system may not need the knowledge of the entire internal state vector, but only of a linear function of it. In this case, instead of designing a complete observer, only ... -
Unscented MPSP for Optimal Control of a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear Dynamic Systems
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)A new computationally efficient nonlinear optimal control synthesis technique, named as unscented model predictive static programming (U-MPSP), is presented in this paper that is applicable to a class of problems with ... -
Weight-Free Multi-Objective Predictive Cruise Control of Autonomous Vehicles in Integrated Perturbation Analysis and Sequential Quadratic Programming Optimization Framework
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Adaptive cruise control of autonomous vehicles can be posed as a multi-objective optimization problem where several conflicting criteria, e.g., fuel economy, tracking capability, ride comfort, and safety, need to be satisfied ...