ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control: Recent submissions
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Resilient Flocking Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles With Cyber-Attack Threats
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)To improve the cybersecurity of flocking control for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), this paper proposes a novel resilient flocking control by specifically considering cyber-attack threats on vehicle tracking ... -
New Hammerstein Modeling and Analysis for Controlling Melt Pool Width in Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Despite the advantages and emerging applications, broader adoption of powder bed fusion (PBF) additive manufacturing is challenged by insufficient reliability and in-process variations. Finite element modeling and ... -
Investigating Trajectory-Based Combustion Control Using a Controlled Trajectory Rapid Compression and Expansion Machine
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This study presents a systematic framework for the real-time implementation of a new combustion control strategy—trajectory-based combustion control—for the operation of free piston engines (FPEs). The free piston engine ... -
A Traveling Wave Thermoacoustic Engine—Design and Test
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The demand for clean, sustainable, and cost-effective energy continues to increase due to global population growth and the corresponding use of consumer products. The provision of heat to a thermoacoustic prime mover results ... -
Bending Detection of Li-Ion Pouch Cells Using Impedance Spectra
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Li-ion batteries are the preferred choice of energy storage in many applications. However, the potential for fire and explosion due to mechanical damage remains a safety concern. Currently, there are no criteria for the ... -
Analytical Model for Enhanced Eigen-Mode Sensitivities in a Coupled Micro-Resonator Array for Ultra-Sensitive Mass Measurement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Resonant sensors using coupled micro-cantilever array have applications in a wide range of areas including ultrasensitive mass detection of bio-molecules and chemical analytes. A target mass deposited on one of the cantilevers ... -
Hierarchical Robust Energy Management of Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)This article proposes a hierarchical energy management strategy for power-split hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) in presence of driving cycle uncertainty. The proposed hierarchical controller exploits long-term and short-term ... -
Application of Mobile Robots to Linear Control Theory Education
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)The knowledge of control engineering for mechanical engineers seems to become more important with the continuous development of automated technologies. To cultivate this knowledge, many experimental devices have been ... -
Comparison of Response Amplitude Operator Curve Generation Methods for Scaled Floating Renewable Energy Platforms in Ocean Wave Basin
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Response amplitude operator (RAO) curves are commonly employed to assess the dynamic behavior of floating offshore structures in the frequency domain. There are multiple methods used to obtain RAOs for numerical models, ... -
A Predictive Frontal and Oblique Collision Mitigation System for Autonomous Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents a collision mitigation system for an unavoidable collision with an arbitrary oncoming obstacle vehicle. A set of candidate trajectories are generated by a model-based method and a hierarchical efficient ... -
Fast Data-Driven Model Predictive Control Strategy for Connected and Automated Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)We present a fast data-driven model predictive control (MPC) strategy for connected and automated vehicles, which can ensure collision avoidance in the presence of uncertainty in shared/predicted trajectory of preceding ... -
On the Zeros of an Undamped Three Degrees-of-Freedom Flexible System
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents an investigation of zeros in the SISO dynamics of an undamped three degrees-of-freedom (3DOF) linear time invariant (LTI) flexible system. Of particular interest are non-minimum phase zeros, which ... -
Multi Observer-Based Sliding Mode Load Frequency Control With Input Delay Estimation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)The letter proposes frequency stability in power systems with input delay. A closed loop system can be oscillatory or even unstable without the exact knowledge of delay. Therefore, it is desirable to design a control scheme ... -
Characterization and Synthesis of Duty Cycles for Battery Energy Storage Used in Peak Shaving Dispatch
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Energy storage systems (ESSs), such as lithium-ion batteries, are being used today in renewable grid systems to provide the capacity, power, and quick response required for operation in grid applications, including peak ... -
Band Gap and Stiffness Tuning of a Sandwich Plate by Magnetostrictive Materials
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)In this research, a novel method is developed to manipulate smart structures' natural frequencies to eliminate or alleviate the detrimental effects caused by vibrating close to the natural frequencies. To this end, this ... -
A Receding-Horizon Framework for Co-Optimizing the Velocity and Power-Split of Automated Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)This paper presents a control framework to co-optimize the velocity and power-split operation of a plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) online in the presence of traffic constraints. The principal challenge in its online ... -
Application of Goertzel Algorithm to Piezoresistive Pressure Sensing Fabric for Custom Fitting of Wheelchair Cushions
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2020)Pressure sores are a costly, painful problem for wheelchair users, caused by prolonged periods of mechanical loading. A common location of pressure sores in wheelchair users is the tissue between the ischial tuberosities ... -
Adaptive Parameter Estimation With Convergence Analysis for the Prandtl–Ishlinskii Hysteresis Operator
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Hysteresis is a nonlinear characteristic ubiquitously exhibited by smart material sensors and actuators, such as piezoelectric actuators and shape memory alloys. The Prandtl–Ishlinskii (PI) operator is widely used to ... -
An Inconspicuous, Integrated Electronic Travel Aid for Visual Impairment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)With a globally aging population, visual impairment is an increasingly pressing problem for our society. Visual disability drastically reduces quality of life and constitutes a large cost to the health care system. Mobility ... -
Early Detection of Fatigue Crack Damage in Ductile Materials: A Projection-Based Probabilistic Finite State Automata Approach
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)Fatigue failure occurs ubiquitously in mechanical structures when they are subjected to cyclic loading well below the material’s yield stress. The tell-tale sign of a fatigue failure is the emergence of cracks at the ...