Uncertainty, Sensitivity and Geostatistical Studies of Flow and Contaminant Transport in Heterogeneous Unsaturated Zone by Feng Pan Dr. Zhongbo Yu, Examination Committee Chair Associate Professor of Hydrology University of Nevada Las Vegas Dr. Jianting Zhu, Examination Committee Co-Chair Associate Professor of Hydrologic Science Desert Research Institute The objectives of this study are: (1) to...

In this work, a Neuro-Sliding mode controller (NSMC) for piezo-positioning mechanism (PEA) was designed. This controller takes into account parameter uncertainties and unknown external disturbances. The LuGre model is used to establish the mathematical model of the system including the mechanical motion dynamics, the hysteresis friction, the load disturbance and parameter uncertainties. Using t...

This paper describes a robust and non-fragile H∞ controller design method for descriptor systems with parameter uncertainties and time delay, as well as a static state feedback controller with multiplicative uncertainty. The controller existence condition, as well as its design method, and the measure of non-fragility in the controller are proposed using linear matrix inequality (LMI) technique...

This paper presents the synchronization of chaotic systems subject to parameter uncertainties. Based on the fuzzy models of chaotic systems, a fuzzy controller is designed to realize chaotic synchronization. A design criterion of the membership functions of fuzzy controller is proposed to facilitate the stability design towards chaotic synchronization when parameter uncertainties are under cons...

This article presents an adaptive control scheme based on position-force architecture to achieve the stability and transparency for teleoperation in unknown or varying environments. Without any knowledge about the parameters of the slave robot and environment dynamics, the proposed scheme guarantees the robustness to the parameter uncertainties of the master robot as well as the stability of th...

The paper addresses the problem of an output feedback guaranteed cost controller design for Networked Control Systems (NCSs) with time-delay and polytopic uncertainties. By constructing a new parameter-dependent Lyapunov functional and applying the free-weighting matrices technique, the parameter-dependent, delay-dependent design method will be obtained to synthesize PID controllers achieving a...

Models based on a power law are prevalent in many areas of study. When regression analysis is performed on data sets modeled by a power law, the traditional model uses a lead coefficient. However, the proposed model replaces the lead coefficient with a scaling parameter and reduces uncertainties in best-fit parameters for data sets with exponents close to 3. This study extends previous work by ...

Quantum parameter estimation is central to many fields such as quantum computation, communications and metrology. Optimal estimation theory has been instrumental in achieving the best accuracy in quantum parameter estimation, which is possible when we have very precise knowledge of and control over the model. However, uncertainties in key parameters underlying the system are unavoidable and may...

The speed tracking control problem of permanent magnet synchronous motors with parameter uncertainties and load torque disturbance is addressed. Fuzzy logic systems are used to approximate nonlinearities, and an adaptive backstepping technique is employed to construct controllers. The proposed controller guarantees the tracking error convergence to a small neighborhood of the origin and achieve...

In a phage λ genetic switch model, bistable dynamical behavior can be destroyed due to the bifurcation caused by inappropriately chosen model parameters. Since the values of many parameters with biological significance often cannot be accurately acquired, it is thus of fundamental importance to analyze how and to which extent the system dynamics is influenced by model parameters, especially tho...