This paper is concerned with the robustness of the predictor feedback control of linear systems with input delays. By applying certain equivalent transformations on the characteristic equation associated with the closed-loop system, we first transform the robustness problem of a predictor feedback control system into the stability problem of a neutral time-delay system containing an integral op...

The conversion from discrete-time to continuous-time models is sometimes quite troublesome. This paper answers related pending questions concerning z-domain poles at the origin, and relating them to s-domain models with time delay. Special attention is devoted to the tradeoff between fractional delay and direct feed-through. The paper places these questions into a general framework of model map...

S AbstractWe analyze the robust stability of Inverse LQ regulators for single-input linear systems with uncertain input delay. Unlike the usual LQ regulator, the Inverse LQ regulator has a gain tuning parameter that can be chosen freely to some extent without losing its LQ optimality. Utilizing this freedom we seek the range of tuning parameter that ensures the robust stability against the unce...

PURPOSE To assess objective and subjective methods to measure accommodation in a young human population. SETTING Research laboratory, University of Houston, College of Optometry, Houston, Texas, USA. METHODS Accommodation was measured in the right eye of 15 young subjects (9 women and 6 men) whose ages ranged from 23 to 28 years and 1 36-year-old subject. The mean age of all subjects was 26...

Aims: Impaired gastric accommodation is a major pathophysiological mechanism in functional dyspepsia. The aim of the present work was to assess a satiety drinking test in the evaluation of accommodation in health and dyspepsia. Methods: Twenty five controls and 37 severely dyspeptic patients seen at a tertiary care centre completed a dyspepsia questionnaire, and gastric emptying and gastric bar...

Sliding Mode Control (SMC) in the presence of small, unavoidable input delay as may be present in controller implementation is studied. Linear systems with bounded matched disturbances and uncertain systemmatrices are considered,where input delay in the SMCwill produce oscillations or potentially even unbounded solutions.Without a priori knowledge of the bounds on the state-dependent terms as r...

We recently introduced a design methodology for the stabilization of nonlinear systems with input and state delays that depend on the current state of the plant. In the present paper we consider nonlinear horizon and the delay depend on the state of the plant, the key design challenges are how to compute the predictor state and the delay (since the delay needs to be available in order to comput...

ÐThis paper presents a design methodology for high-speed Booth encoded parallel multiplier. For partial product generation, we propose a new modified Booth encoding (MBE) scheme to improve the performance of traditional MBE schemes. For final addition, a new algorithm is developed to construct multiple-level conditional-sum adder (MLCSMA). The proposed algorithm can optimize final adder accordi...

The private tourism accommodation concept has not been largely represented in the scientific research. It started appearing on the margins of the actual research in the past ten years, namely with a hotel as the most analyzed form of tourism accommodation. In the structure of tourism accommodation in Croatia in 2011 private accommodation participated with 465 000 beds which represents 49,8 perc...

We report results of lexical accommodation studies involving three different interpretation settings: human-human monolingual; human-interpreted bilingual; and machine-interpreted bilingual. We found significant accommodation in all three conversational settings, with the highest rate in the human-interpreted setting. There is evidence for longrange mutual accommodation in that setting, as comp...