because thin plate reinforced concrete members such as walls and slabs are greatly influenced by the drying shrinkage, cracks can occur in these members due to the restraint of the volume change caused by drying shrinkage. therefore, the control of cracking due to drying shrinkage is very important in building construction that the thin plate members are frequently used. however, few researches...

in this paper, the development and optimization of power distribution control strategy (pdcs) have been performed for a hybrid energy storage systems (hess) of a series hybrid electric bus (sheb). a common pdcs is based on the use of ultra-capacitor (uc) pack. a new simple pdcs is developed as a battery based one. for the battery based pdcs, four parameters are introduced for tuning the pdcs pe...

A computer-aided design software package for nonlinear control synthesis is discussed. The software incorporates five different modern nonlinear control methods. The versatility of the software lies in its ability to develop nonlinear controllers using a simulation model. As a result, models of arbitrary complexity can be used in the control law development. The use of the design software is il...

This paper summarizes the current status of an ongoing research program to explore automated alternatives to the current manual method of designing, implementing, and delivering user interfaces to complex digital control systems. Using examples from two implementations of the model-based interface automation approach that resulted from this research, we explore the models and collaboration requ...

In this paper optimal experimental designs for inverse quadratic regression models are determined. We consider two different parameterizations of the model and investigate local optimal designs with respect to the c-, Dand Ecriteria, which reflect various aspects of the precision of the maximum likelihood estimator for the parameters in inverse quadratic regression models. In particular it is d...

Many industrial applications have digital closed loop control systems and the main algorithm used at these applications is the Proportional Integral Derivative structure (PID). This chapter presents some useful MATLAB commands that might be used as an instrument to analyze the closed loop and also to help the control system design. The first part presents the general standard structure of this ...