This work proposes a neural-fuzzy sliding mode control scheme for a hydro-turbine speed governor system. Considering the assumption of elastic water hammer, a nonlinear mode of the hydro-turbine governor system is established. By linearizing this mode, a sliding mode controller is designed. The linearized mode is subject to uncertainties. The uncertainties are generated in the process of linear...

This article presents a fuzzy sliding-mode control scheme for a class of Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy which are subject to norm-bounded uncertainties in each subsystem. The proposed stabilization method can be adopted to explore T-S uncertain fuzzy systems (TSUFS) with various local control inputs. Firstly, a new design is proposed to transform TSUFS into sliding-mode dynamic systems.In addi...

The subloading-friction model is capable of describing static friction, the smooth transition from static to kinetic friction and the recovery to static friction after sliding stops or sliding velocity decreases. This causes a negative rate sensitivity (i.e. a decrease in friction resistance with increasing sliding velocity). A generalized subloading-friction model is formulated in this article...

OBJECTIVES Injury prevention is an important reason for the development of performance standards in football. Currently, there is no objective method available to classify sliding induced skin injuries, which includes the perceived sliding friendliness of football pitches. The purpose of this study was to develop a non-invasive method for quantification of the observed sliding induced skin dama...

The friction and wear properties of polyamide 66 (PA66), polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) sliding against hemselves under dry sliding and oil-lubricated conditions were studied by using a pin-on-disc tribometer. The effect of applied load and sliding peed on tribological behaviors of the polymer–polymer sliding combinations under dry sliding and oil-lubricated cond...

This paper presents the dynamic modeling and fuzzy sliding mode control for rigid-flexible multibody systems. To investigate the dynamic stiffening of rigid-flexible systems, a firstorder approximate model of a flexible spacecraft system is formulated by using Hamilton’s principles and assumed mode method, taking into account the second-order term of the coupling deformation field. For highly f...

The advent of highly efficient and superior digital devices and fast microprocessors for control application has opened the field of discrete time controller design. This paper presents an exciting application of magnetic levitation system using discrete sliding mode control. There is a limited volume of literature available for discrete sliding mode control as applied to magnetic levitation sy...

We present a formula that computes the output of an R-controllable, regular, single-input linear timeinvariant implicit system in such a way that it has prescribed relative degree and zeros. The formula is inspired on different generalizations of Ackermann’s formula. A possible application is in the context of sliding-mode control of implicit systems where, as the first step, one can use the pr...

The paper proposes a framework for engineering a coherent society-oriented system using the concept of sliding-mode control from systems theory. The agents are coordinated through local control laws using a switching logic related to the sliding manifolds. The sliding manifolds stand for sub-plans and therefore they are updated every time a change in planning is required. The agents have the ab...

The purpose of this paper is to apply adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control for structurally controlling buildings with sliding bearing isolation. Combining fuzzy control and robust control such as sliding mode control, reduces fuzzy rule bases complexity and ensures stability and robustness. We use Lyapunov theory to develop a self-tuning law. Stiffness uncertainty and time delay is used to demo...