The emergence of DTN as an option for sustaining communication in environments with high delay/frequent disruption have rendered existing access control mechanisms inappropriate hence the need for a new concept in DTN access control. This is primarily due to contradicting assumptions like low delay and constant connectivity on which the existing mechanisms are built. This paper discusses the se...

This paper presents an automatic error tolerance specification system to control the performance of hierarchical volume rendering. Rather than requiring the user to provide an explicit error tolerance numerically, we let the user to specify only the target rendering speed. Our system can then calculate an appropriate error tolerance adaptively to satisfy the user’s performance goal. The system ...

In this paper a theoretical framework of robust fault-tolerant control (FTC) for a class of nonlinear nonaffine-in-control systems is developed. In the framework, an observer-like auxiliary system is designed via adaptive and sliding mode techniques, which is only required to ensure that the output of the auxiliary system asymptotic tracking plant output. Based on the auxiliary system, a reconf...

Abstract The paper describes the choice of a technical solution for implementation fault-tolerant real-time control system under external control. main idea method is to introduce an block that includes watchdog and backup decision-making algorithm. This was supposed be executed on FPGA-based block. CPU. proposes variant creating entire single FPGA. It implements both processor cores operation ...

In this paper the problem of active fault tolerant control design for noisy systems described by Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models is studied. The proposed control strategy is based on the known of the fault estimated and the error between the faulty system state and a reference system state. The considered systems are affected by actuator and sensor faults and have the weighting functions depending o...

In this paper, a new actuator fault tolerant control strategy is proposed for nonlinear Takagi-Sugeno systems. The proposed control law uses the estimated fault and the error between the faulty system state and a reference system state. A proportional integral observer with unknown inputs is conceived in order to estimate simultaneously states and actuator faults. The problem of design of obser...

An adaptive robust approach for actuator fault-tolerant control of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems is proposed. The two chief ways in which the system performance can degrade following an actuator-fault are undesirable transients and unacceptably large steady-state tracking errors. Adaptive control based schemes can achieve good final tracking accuracy in spite of change in system parame...

BACKGROUND Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common thyroid malignancy and its differential diagnosis includes follicular adenoma (FA) and adenomatous goiter (AG). Several ancillary markers have been suggested to aid in the diagnosis of FTC, but the successful use of these methods still needs to be validated. METHODS In the present study, we verified the immunoexpression o...