Perishability of blood products as well as uncertainty in demand amounts complicate the management of blood supply for blood centers. This paper addresses a mixed-integer linear programming model for blood platelets production planning while integrating the processes of blood collection as well as production/testing, inventory control and distribution. Whole blood-derived production methods for...

When the process is highly uncertain, even linear minimum phase systems must sacrifice desirable feedback control benefits to avoid an excessive ‘cost of feedback’, while preserving the robust stability. In this paper, the problem of supervisory based switching Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT) control is proposed for the control of highly uncertain plants. According to this strategy, the unce...

This document provides a brief proposal for “Robust Optimization & Robust Control Synthesis” reading group.

Control systems with digital communication between sensors, controllers and actuators are called as Networked Control Systems (NCSs). In general, NCSs encounter with some problems such as packet dropouts and network induced delays. When plant uncertainty is added to the aforementioned problems, the design of the robust controller that is able to guarantee the stability, becomes more complex. In...

This paper presents a new controller for speed control problem of the BLDC motors. The nonlinear model of the motor is approximated by implementation of fuzzy rules. The uncertainties are considered in the fuzzy system. Using this model and linear matrix inequality (LMI) optimization, a robust controller for purpose of speed control of the motor has been designed and applied to it. The effectiv...

the robustness property can be added to dsc system at the expense of reducing performance, i.e., increasing the sum-rate. the aim of designing robust dsc schemes is to trade off between system robustness and compression efficiency. in this paper, after deriving an inner bound on the rate–distortion region for the quadratic gaussian mdc based rdsc system with two encoders, the structure of the r...

this paper proposes a novel robust control scheme based on delay-dependent h∞for unified power quality conditioner (upqc) in a microgrid under the influence of the delay and parameter uncertainties. a new upqc model considering the effects of the delay and parameter uncertainties is established. then, the h∞ controller is designed based on the cone complementarity linearization (ccl) algorithm....