A major limitation in extrusion-based additive manufacturing (AM) is the lack of process monitoring and control tools material deposition frame. Iterative learning (ILC) has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy (Hoelzle et al., 2009; Bristow & Alleyne, 2003) due repetitive nature processes, but for much prior work ILC AM, focus was on precise machine components. To improve fabricated p...

This paper presents two current control techniques of an ac-dc boost converter to obtain unity power factor (PF). Single phase high power factor rectification is the most frequently accomplished using a boost converter. This converter reshapes distorted input current waveform to approximate a sinusoidal current that is in phase with the input voltage. There are several current control technique...

In this paper, an state-space approach to deadbeat servomechanism design is proposed using multirate input control. This paper focuses advantage of multirate control over conventional single-rate control. To achieve settling time specified, multirate controllers require less frequent sampling of measurement than single-rate ones. Multirate input mechanism can yield shorter settling time than si...

This paper presents the modeling and simulation of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) generation system for off-grid and on-grid operation and configuration. A fuel cell DG system consists of a fuel cell power plant, a DC/DC converter and a DC/AC inverter. The dynamic model for fuel cell array and its power electronic interfacing are presented also a multi-input single output (MISO) D...

This paper describes how decentralized control theory can be used to analyze the control of multiple cooperative robotic vehicles. Models of cooperation are discussed and related to the input/output reachability, structural observability, and controllability of the entire system. Whereas decentralized control research in the past has concentrated on using decentralized controllers to partition ...

Process shift is an important input parameter in the economic design of control charts. Earlier x control chart designs considered constant shifts to occur in the mean of the process for a given assignable cause. This assumption has been criticized by many researchers since it may not be realistic to produce a constant shift whenever an assignable cause occurs. To overcome this difficulty...