Many accounting firms have changed the way their auditors evaluate internal control. Instead of preparing flowcharts documenting transaction flows, they only document the controls that have a bearing on specific financial statement assertions. This shift in documentation marks a change in the structure of the internal control evaluation task from transaction flow to control objective. This case...

Progress in understanding the driver/vehicle interface requires an improved model of driver skill in the steering control task. A possible explanation for driver steering skill involves driver usage of multiple internal models of the vehicle dynamics, where each internal model represents the actual vehicle dynamics within a limited range of the performance envelope of the vehicle. This paper pr...

Optimal feedback control has been proposed as an attractive movement generation strategy in goal reaching tasks for anthropomorphic manipulator systems. The optimal feedback control law for systems with non-linear dynamics and non-quadratic costs can be found by iterative methods, such as the iterative Linear Quadratic Gaussian (iLQG) algorithm. So far this framework relied on an analytic form ...

Bodies of plants are modularly organized. Development proceeds by adding new modules to open endings with a potential for branching. Each module is autonomous to some extent. Development relies on the self-organized patterns that emerge from the interactions of individual modules. Interactions include both competition and cooperation, and several types of positive and negative feedback loops ar...

Abstract — To improve transparency and reduce the curse of dimensionality of non–linear black–box models, the local modelling approach was proposed. Poor transient response of Local Model networks led to the use of non–parametrical probabilistic models such as the Gaussian Process prior approach. Recently, Gaussian Process models were applied in the Minimum Variance Control. This paper introduc...

Introduction Two of the most common questions on the minds of many goat producers are; “when should I deworm my goats?”, and “what should I use to do so?”. Unfortunately, there are no simple answers to these questions because all production programs differ in many ways. Therefore, we will look at some of the factors that affect these answers so you can better make the decisions for your herd. W...

In this paper, we intend to present some already known results about the internal controllability of the linear and nonlinear Schrödinger equation. After presenting the basic properties of the equation, we give a self contained proof of the controllability in dimension 1 using some propagation results. We then discuss how to obtain some similar results on a compact manifold where the zone of co...

We propose a design procedure of neural Internal Model control systems for processes with delay. We assume that a stable discrete-time neural model of the process is available. We show that the design of a Model Reference controller for Internal Model control necessitates only the training of the inverse of the model deprived from its delay, provided this inverse exists and is stable. As the ro...