Usually probabilistic methods are used in the conventional reliability assessment of power system. From an applied point of view, dealing with uncertainties of some parameters such as mean time to failure or repair and forecasted load, using probabilistic methods would be difficult; because acquisition of adequate historical data related to different parts of system to extract an appropriate pr...

Flexibility is recognized as an important feature in manufacturing. This paper suggests a knowledge-based methodology for the measurement of manufacturing flexibility. We claim that flexibility is an inherently vague notion and an essential requirement in its measurement is the involvement of human perception and belief. Nine different flexibility types are measured, while the overall flexibili...

This paper studies the H∞ control problem for a class of Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy neutral systems with time-varying delays and actuator saturation, where the delay in neutral-type term includes a fast-varying case (i.e., the derivative of delay is more than 1), which is never considered in current literature for this systems. The new LMI-based delaydependent H∞ control results for this systems...

conclusions although our patient had ckd stage 4, but his condition has not deteriorated and remained constant and stable for several years only by control of blood pressure and usual treatment which prescribed for patients at this stage case presentation a 78-year-old man presented with stage 4 ckd for 7 years; the glomerular filtration rate (gfr) and creatinine levels remained constant despit...

In this paper, the relation between synchronization and control of chaotic nodes connected through a time–varying network is discussed. In particular, the effects of pinning control on a set of moving chaotic agents are investigated showing that the role of system parameters, like agent density, is critical in order to reach the synchronous behavior and also to control the whole network by pinn...

The fuzzy H∞ filter design problem for T-S fuzzy systems with interval time-varying delay is investigated. The delay is considered as the time-varying delay being either differentiable uniformly bounded with delay derivative in bounded interval or fast varying with no restrictions on the delay derivative . A novel Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional is employed and a tighter upper bound of its deriv...

The problem of disturbance rejection in the control of nonlinear systems with additive disturbance generated by some unforced nonlinear systems, was formulated and solved by {itshape Mukhopadhyay} and {itshape Narendra}, they applied the idea of increasing the order of the system, using neural networks the model of multilayer perceptron on several systems of varying complexity, so the objective...