I watched it for some minutes, somewhat in fear, but more in wonder.. .. it seemed massy and heavy, tapering from the edge into a solid and broad structure above. It was appended to a weighty rod of brass, and the whole hissed as it swung through the air. Abstract In this paper we consider the nonlinear control of the Gyroscopic Pendulum, a novel mechanical system consisting of a physical pendu...

Switching supervisory is the most important section of a feedback control process inMIMO hybrid systems. By choosing a non-compatible controller, system may go tounstable mode or high overshoot response. In this paper, a new method of switchingfor selecting MBC controllers is discussed. Results of the simulation show the MIMO(2-in 2-out) linear hybrid system can be switched stable and low overs...

This paper concerns a study on the optimal control for nonlinear systems. An appropriate alternative in order to alleviate the nonlinearity of a system is the exact linearization approach. In this fashion, the nonlinear system has been linearized using input-output feedback linearization (IOFL). Then, by utilizing the well developed optimal control theory of linear systems, the compensated ...

Integrability and linearizability of the Lotka–Volterra systems are studied. We prove sufficient conditions for integrable but not linearizable systems for any rational resonance ratio. We give new sufficient conditions for linearizable Lotka–Volterra systems. Sufficient conditions for integrable Lotka–Volterra systems with 3 : q resonance are given. In the particular cases of 3 : 5 and 3 : 4 r...

This paper considers the position tracking problem of a voltage-controlled magnetic levitation system. It is well known that the control problem is quite complicated and challenging due to inherent nonlinearities associated with the electromechanical dynamics. And feedback linearization approach via coordinate transformation is considered to be a useful candidate to tackle the control problem. ...

We address the following question. Consider a sub-manifold of an affine space, defined by its equations F = 0: does there exist a finite characterization of ruled sub-manifolds in terms of derivatives of F via algebraic inequalities and/or equalities ? This question is related to an open problem in control theory: the finite characterization of flat systems [2] and, more generally, of systems l...

Eventually linearizable objects are novel shared memory programming constructs introduced as an analogy to eventual consistency in message-passing systems. However, their behaviors in shared memory systems are so mysterious that very little general theoretical properties of them is known. In this paper, we lay the theoretical foundation of the study of eventually linearizable objects. We prove ...