HPC developers aim to deliver the very best performance. To do so they constantly think about memory bandwidth, memory hierarchy, locality, floating point performance, power/energy constraints and so on. On the other hand, application scientists aim to write performance portable code while exploiting the rich feature set of the hardware. By providing adequate hints to the compilers in the form ...

Plasmonic antennas enable the conversion of light from free space into subwavelength volumes and vice versa, which facilitates the manipulation of light at the nanoscale. Dynamic control of the properties of antennas is desirable for many applications, including biochemical sensors, reconfigurable meta-surfaces and compact optoelectronic devices. The combination of metallic structures and graph...

Basic thermofluid processes of a positive displacement compressor are strongly dependent upon the acoustic behavior of the manifolds. Hence manifold tuning is very important so as to increase flow capacity while reducing energy consumption and fluidborne noise; recently we developed a computer simulation program used to examine the tuning phenomena analytically. However, such numerical predicti...

In this paper, a stiffness match method is proposed to reduce the vibration sensitivity of micromachined tuning fork gyroscopes. Taking advantage of the coordinate transformation method, a theoretical model is established to analyze the anti-phase vibration output caused by the stiffness mismatch due to the fabrication imperfections. The analytical solutions demonstrate that the stiffness misma...

This paper presents a PID tuning method for unstable processes using an adaptive-network-based-fuzzy-inference system (ANFIS) for given gain and phase margin (GPM) speci)cations. PID tuning methods are widely used to control stable processes. However, PID controller for unstable processes is less common. In this paper, the PID controller parameters can be determined by the ANFIS. Because the de...

This paper presents a set of single input – output (SISO) principles for tuning of continuous-time controllers used in autotuning schemes. The emphasis of designed autotuners is laid to SISO systems with time delay. Autotuners represent a combination of relay feedback identification and some control design method. In this contribution, models with up to three parameters are estimated by means o...

Software for PID controller tuning PIDTOOL has been developed in the MATLAB– Simulink programming environment using its graphic user interface. The main aim of the PIDTOOL design was creating user friendly tool for simple and fast identification from the step response of the controlled process as well as for simple and fast PID controller tuning and checking the quality of control. The controll...

Unlike standard Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC), Optimal Control Modification (OCM) has been shown to be a promising MRAC modification with robustness and analytical properties not present in other adaptive control methods. This paper presents an analysis of the OCM method, and how the asymptotic property of OCM is useful for analyzing and tuning the controller. We begin with a Lyapunov...

In this paper a new optimum tuning method of PI controllers in first-order time-delay systems, based on the deadbeat response to a step setpoint variation, is presented. The deadbeat performance, already studied for the plants without delay, consists of a fast achievement of the steady state with an overshoot included in a narrow band and with minimum rise and settling times. In the proposed me...

The majority of the research work on fuzzy PID controllers focuses on the conventional two-input PI or PD type controller proposed by Mamdani (1974). However, fuzzy PID controller design is still a complex task due to the involvement of a large number of parameters in defining the fuzzy rule base. This paper investigates different fuzzy PID controller structures, including the Mamdani-type cont...