This paper develops a fault diagnosis (FD) and fault-tolerant control (FTC) of pitch actuators in wind turbines. This is accomplished by combining a disturbance compensator with a controller, both of which are formulated in the discrete time domain. The disturbance compensator has a dual purpose: to estimate the actuator fault (which is used by the FD algorithm) and to design the discrete time ...

There are some important prognostic factors for papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC). In this paper, clinicopathological features significantly affecting patient prognosis are described based on our data as well as others. Distant metastasis at diagnosis is the most important prognostic factor for both PTC and FTC. Other than that, preoperative and intraopera...

This paper deals with the design of a fault tolerant control (FTC) of a quadrotor aircraft system, considering the actuator faults. The attitude dynamic model of quadrotor, taking into account the various parameters which can affect the dynamics of this system in space is presented. Subsequently, based on robust adaptive-backstepping method and taking into account the actuator faults, a new FTC...

This paper describes FPGA realization of a Fuzzy Temperature Controller (FTC) using VHDL intended for industrial application. The system is built up with four major modules namely fuzzification, inference, implication and defuzzification. The composition method selected for the fuzzy model is the MaxMin composition while the Mamdani Min operator is chosen as the implication method. Each module ...

INTRODUCTION Previous studies have described improvements on lipid parameters when switching from other antiretroviral drugs to tenofovir (TDF) and impairments in lipid profile when discontinuing TDF. [1-3] It is unknown, however, if TDF has an intrinsic lipid-lowering effect or such findings are due to the addition or removal of other offending agents or other reasons. MATERIALS AND METHODS ...

Economists at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) support the agency’s competition and consumer protection missions. In this year’s essay we discuss efforts at the FTC and elsewhere to examine empirically the competitive effects of mergers. This work has ranged from subjective interview-based reports on post-merger behavior to more objective analyses of postmerger performance based on rigorous e...

This paper presents a hybrid intelligent multi-agent method for marine faults tolerant control (FTC). A new FTC schema, implemented by different kinds of agent, is discussed as well as the structure and functions of those agents, which have been encapsulated with intelligent algorithms to carry out different aspects in FTC. These agents could, having a purpose of trying to earn payoff as much a...

This study develops a passive fault-tolerant control (FTC) method with weak conservatism for the discrete parameter system. For first time, application of (0-1) and symbolic parameters describing system is given. In addition, relationship between domain strategy feasible set discussed. paper mainly discusses significance intersection sets FTC. Moreover, suggestion that can be constructed in abs...

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Abstract: In this paper, a new active FTC strategy is proposed. First, it is developed in the context of linear systems and then it is extended to Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems. The key contribution of the proposed approach is an integrated FTC design procedure of the fault identification and fault-tolerant control schemes. Fault identification is based on the use of an observer. While, the FTC c...