A prototype based on industrial tools will be presented to analyze and optimize the lifetime yield of analog circuits, where both parameter variations from manufacture process and parameter lifetime degradations due to NBTI and HCI effects are considered [1]. A robust analog design is thus achieved tolerant of both effects.

The Taguchi method is a useful technique to improve the performance of products or processes at a lower cost and in less time. This procedure can be categorized in the static and dynamic quality characteristics. The optimization of multiple responses has received increasing attention over the last few years in many manufacturing organizations.  Several approaches dealing with multiple static q...

This paper presents two model-based control design approaches for a single-phase marine cooling system. Models are derived from first principles and aim at describing significant system dynamics including nonlinearities and transport delays, while keeping the model complexity low. The two approaches investigated are: A baseline design for performance comparison, and a nonlinear robust control d...

This paper discusses the concept and parameter design of a Robust Stair Climbing Compliant Modular Robot, capable of tackling stairs with overhangs. Modifying the geometry of the periphery of the wheels of our robot helps in tackling overhangs. Along with establishing a concept design, robust design parameters are set to minimize performance variation. The Grey-based Taguchi Method is adopted f...

A convex approach is proposed to deal with switched discrete-time systems with time-varying delays. It uses a parameter dependent Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional that allows to assure the robust stability or the robust stabilization of a switched system for arbitrary switching functions. The analysis and the design conditions are formulated as simple feasibility tests of linear matrix inequaliti...

The paper presents the state feedback adaptive robust control approach to track the reference input for a class of nonminimum phase nonlinear systems. The key for this approach is to combine the adaptive robust control design techniques and the inputto-state property to deal with a class of non-minimum phase nonlinear systems with unknown parameter and unstructural uncertainties. The control de...

This paper addresses the H2 and H∞ filtering design problems of discrete-time Markov jump linear systems. First, under the assumption that the Markov parameter is measured, the main contribution is on the LMI characterization of all filters such that the estimation error remains bounded by a given norm level, yielding the complete solution of the mode-dependent filtering design problem. Based o...

Robust parameter design has been successfully applied to a variety of engineering problems for enhancing the robustness of the system; however, it cannot deal with multiple dynamic quality systems. Although several other approaches have been presented to resolve this problem, they are unable to efficiently treat the situations that the control factors have continuous values. This study incorpor...