Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control: Recent submissions
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Experimental Study and Model Predictive Control of a Lean-Burn Gasoline Engine Coupled With a Passive Selective Catalytic Reduction System
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Lean-burn gasoline engines have demonstrated 10–20% engine efficiency gain over stoichiometric engines and are widely considered as a promising technology for meeting the 54.5 miles-per-gallon (mpg) corporate average fuel ... -
An Efficient Approach for Stability Analysis and Parameter Tuning in Delayed Feedback Control of a Flying Robot Carrying a Suspended Load
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents an accurate and computationally efficient time-domain design method for the stability region determination and optimal parameter tuning of delayed feedback control of a flying robot carrying a suspended ... -
A New Calibration Method for Piezoelectric Testing System Based on Orthogonal Calibration Method
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The accuracy of piezoelectric test system has a direct influence on the accuracy of the vector force detection. Piezoelectric sensor parameters are obtained by calibration system calibrated through orthogonal calibration ... -
Optimize Energy Efficiency of Quadrotors Via Arm Rotation
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Quadrotors have been used in many areas such as cargo transportation, agriculture, and search and rescue. The low energy density of power sources and the low energy efficiency of quadrotors have prevented quadrotors from ... -
Health Monitoring of Centrifugal Pumps Using Digital Models
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The area of predictive maintenance (PM) has received growing research interest in the past few years. Diagnostic capabilities of PM technologies have increased due to advances made in sensor technologies, signal processing ... -
In-Ground-Effect Modeling and Nonlinear-Disturbance Observer for Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Control
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper focuses on modeling and control of in-ground-effect (IGE) on multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). As the vehicle flies and hovers over, around, or underneath obstacles, such as the ground, ceiling, and ... -
Combined Plant and Controller Design Using Batch Bayesian Optimization: A Case Study in Airborne Wind Energy Systems
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents a novel data-driven nested optimization framework that addresses the problem of coupling between plant and controller optimization. This optimization strategy is tailored toward instances where a ... -
Multimodal Fusion Object Detection System for Autonomous Vehicles
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In order for autonomous vehicles to safely navigate the road ways, accurate object detection must take place before safe path planning can occur. Currently, general purpose object detection convolutional neural network ... -
A Comparative Study of Different Objectives Functions for the Minimal Fuel Drive Cycle Optimization in Autonomous Vehicles
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)With the advent of self-driving autonomous vehicles, vehicle controllers are free to drive their own velocities. This feature can be exploited to drive an optimal velocity trajectory that minimizes fuel consumption. Two ... -
Distributed Detect-and-Avoid for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in National Air Space
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to revolutionize various applications in civilian domain such as disaster management, search and rescue operations, law enforcement, precision agriculture, and package ... -
Control and Powertrain Management for Multi-Autonomous Hybrid Vehicles
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The need for less fuel consumption and the trend of higher level of autonomy together urge the power optimization in multihybrid autonomous vehicles. Both the multivehicle coordination control and the hybrid powertrain ... -
Mobility Enhancement of Heavy-Duty Tracked Vehicles Under Load Using Real-Time Terrain Characterization, Traction Control, and a Towing Winch
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper presents a generalized, multibody dynamics model for a tracked vehicle equipped with a towing winch and control strategies that enhance vehicle mobility by regulating track slip based on real-time terrain ... -
A New Result on Fractional Differential Inequality and Applications to Control of Dynamical Systems
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In this work, we establish a new estimate result for fractional differential inequality, and this inequality is used to derive a robust sliding mode control law for the fractional-order (FO) dynamic systems. The sliding ... -
Robust Kalman-Type Filter for Non-Gaussian Noise: Performance Analysis With Unknown Noise Covariances
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)The Kalman filter (KF) is optimal with respect to minimum mean square error (MMSE) if the process noise and measurement noise are Gaussian. However, the KF is suboptimal in the presence of non-Gaussian noise. The maximum ... -
Controller Design, Analysis, and Experimental Validation of a Robotic Serpentine Tail to Maneuver and Stabilize a Quadrupedal Robot
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper analyzes how a multisegment, articulated serpentine tail can enhance the maneuvering and stability of a quadrupedal robot. A persistent challenge in legged robots is the need to account for propulsion, maneuvering, ... -
Optimal Control for Partially Observed Nonlinear Interval Systems
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In this paper, we consider the optimal control problem for a class of systems governed by nonlinear time-varying partially observed interval differential equations. The control process is assumed to be governed by linear ... -
Fault-Tolerant Attitude Controller Design for Deep Space Probe Via Adaptive Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)For deep space probe subject to uncertain time-varying inertia matrix, unknown external disturbances, actuator faults, and misalignment, a fault-tolerant attitude controller is designed in this paper, which is based on ... -
Fault Estimation and Fault-Tolerant Control Via a Novel Proportional–Integral Observer in Singular Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper deals with the fault observer and fault-tolerant controller design for singular Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy systems subject to actuator faults. First, a novel proportional-integral observer is constructed to ... -
Tracking of Periodic Trajectories for Switched Systems Under Time-Varying Asynchronous Switching
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)In this technical brief, we provide an asynchronous modified repetitive controller design to address the periodic trajectory tracking problem for switched systems with time-varying switching delays between plant modes and ... -
Data-Driven Backstepping Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2019)This paper studies control problems of underactuated mechanical systems with model uncertainties. The control is designed with the method of backstepping. The first-order low-pass filters are used to estimate the unknown ...