In environmental flood management, an essential task is to improve channel conveyance using environmentally preferable methods, which aim to preserve natural morphological and hydraulic characteristics of a river. This requires a reliable channel design method that accounts for complex hydraulics, i.e. two-stage channel or considerable bank vegetation. Hydraulic field measurements were carried ...

This paper presents the design of a model-based supervision and diagnosis system for hydraulic and future electro-hydraulic passenger car braking systems. A state space model of the braking system has been derived, which allows calculation of the individual wheel brake cylinder pressures as well as the amount of brake fluid consumed due to faults in the braking system. Based on this model, a re...

| This paper addresses the control problem of hydraulic robot manipulators. The backstepping design methodology is adopted to develop a novel nonlinear position tracking controller. The tracking errors are shown to be exponentially stable under the proposed control law. The controller is further augmentedwith adaptation laws to compensate for parametric uncertainties in the system dynamics. Acc...

This paper presents a summary of the design and implementation of a force-reflecting controller for conventional heavy duty hydraulic machines. The unsuitability of direct force feedback with rate control has been shown analytically and confirmed on a simulator of a typical hydraulic machine. A novel stiffness control scheme was developed to circumvent this problem and was used successfully in ...

abstract rockfill dams are a type of hydraulic control structures used to protect river bed in cases where a considerable reservoir volume is available behind these structures; it could mitigate the floods and provide a gradual depletion of incoming volume of water so that the discharge passing downstream is decreased. one of the main issues on utilizing rockfill dams is to keep its permeabilit...

1. Abstract Near real-time continuous monitoring systems have been proposed as a promising approach for helping drinking water utilities detect and respond quickly to threats related to the normal operation of the water network. Water quality sensors may detect contamination events that pose a growing threat to public health, while pressure and flow sensors are used for estimating the hydraulic...

Trapezoidal labyrinth weirs offer significant flow magnification for the available width of approach channel and that of the downstream chute. These types of weirs may find great utility and hence will have to be designed and provided for river linking projects. There are many factors such as head to crest height ratio, angle of side walls, vertical aspect ratio, apex width and approach and con...

Dicotyledons have evolved a strategy to compensate for the increase in hydraulic resistance to water transport with height growth by widening xylem conduits downwards. In monocots, the accumulation of hydraulic resistance with height should be similar, but the absence of secondary growth represents a strong limitation for the maintenance of xylem hydraulic efficiency during ontogeny. The hydrau...

ABSTRACT: To develop an unmanned automatic excavator system the control performance of hydraulic actuators should be guaranteed. However, hydraulic actuators with single rod cylinder have inherently severe nonlinearities that significantly affect to the command following performance of end-effect. PID control system widely used in industries is not proper to compensate the nonlinearities and it...

This work presents an expert system prototype that integrates concepts from Design Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Object-Oriented Modeling and Hydraulic System Design, developed as a research project using CLIPS, the project had intensive validation by industrial and academic experts. The development applied INTERNET technologies for knowledge harvesting and user interface. The paper dis...