This paper deals with supervision in critical time manufacturing jobshops without assembling tasks. Such systems have a robustness property to deal with time disturbances. A filtering mechanism of sensors signals integrating the robustness values is proposed. It provides the avoidance of control freezing if the time disturbance is in the robustness intervals. This constitutes an enhancement of ...

Increased recognition of the global importance of salt marshes as 'blue carbon' (C) sinks has led to concern that salt marshes could release large amounts of stored C into the atmosphere (as CO2) if they continue undergoing disturbance, thereby accelerating climate change. Empirical evidence of C release following salt marsh habitat loss due to disturbance is rare, yet such information is essen...

In this paper, we illustrate our new results on model validation for control and controller validation in a prediction error identification framework, developed in a companion paper (Gevers et al., 2002), through two realistic simulation examples, covering widely different control design applications. The first is the control of a flexible mechanical system (the Landau benchmark example) with a...

Abstract Background: Identity disturbance is one of the DSM-IV criteria for borderline personality disorder, but there has been little attention to its nature. Four subsets of identity disturbance (role absorption, painful incoherence, inconsistency and lack of commitment) have been assessed. This study aimed to assess the role of these subsets in patients with borderline person...

In construction production field, since various type of disturbance factor is existed, it is difficult to manage related information by using conventional model. In this paper, a new concept of “Parts and Packets unified architecture” is proposed. Data or information related to a product are carried by product itself and can be handled to manage whole system. It is a unified controller system w...

Continuous casting plants are highly complex plants whose performance requires reliable mold level control system. Several effects greatly influence the surface quality of the final product and if these are not suppressed sufficiently by the mold level control system, than the production speed, hence the productivity has to be lowered. This paper analyses the most important disturbance and thei...

n-hexane neuropathy has been described after glue sniffing and industrial exposure. onset may be subacute and reminiscent of guillain-barre' syndrome. five patients (15-18 years old) presented with paresthesia, severe weakness of the extremities particularly lower extremities, as well as muscular atrophy, total areflexia and gait disturbances were admitted in hospital in march 2003. all of thes...