A particular characteristic of a manufacturing system concerns the complexity and the presence of uncertainties along with the difficulties in building analytical models that capture the system in all its important aspects. Hence, simulation remains one of the most widely used tools to fill this need. The objective of this article is related to the potential improvement of computer simulation a...

This study designed and developed a bionic mimosa robot with delicate leaf swing behaviors. For different swing behaviors, this study developed a variety of situations, in which the bionic mimosa robot would display different postures. The core technologies used were Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs), plastic material, and an intelligent control device. The technology particularly focused on the SMAs ...

The idea of intelligent environments is no longer a science fiction and has become an active area of research. Soon this technology will become part of our everyday lives. However, an important issue needs to be solved to make this technology practical: security. Access control mechanism is an important aspect of security, because it determines who has access to resources. It also allows rich i...

• This article discusses our experience building and running an intelligent control system during a two-year test for a NASA advanced life support (ALS) system. The system under test was known as the integrated water recovery system (iWRS). We used the 3T intelligent control architecture to produce software that operated autonomously, 24/7 for sixteen months. The article details our development...

This paper is focused on the intelligent control of vehicles with nonholonomic constraints. A new method to compute a fuzzy perception of the environment is presented, dealing with the uncertainties and imprecisions from the sensorial system and taking into account nonholonomic constraints of the vehicle. This fuzzy perception is used, both in the design of each reactive behavior and solving th...

In May 1993, a task force was created at the invitation of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control of the IEEE Control Systems Society to look into the area of Intelligent Control and de ne what is meant by the term. Its ndings are aimed mainly towards serving the needs of the Control Systems Society; hence the task force has not attempted to address the issue of intelligence in its gene...

controlling a system with minimum information and regardless of dynamic equations which dominate systems is the aim of intelligent control. one of the common approaches for process control is applying shewhart's quality control charts. neuro-fuzzy networks, as one of the branches of artificial intelligence (ai), can play an effective role in the enforcement of process control's common...

Tracking Control of Underactuated Surface Vessels Using Hybrid Control Methods Yu Tian Advisor: University of Guelph, 2016 Prof. Simon X. Yang In this thesis, two intelligent control systems are developed for tracking control of an underactuated surface vessel (USV). The studied USV is controlled with uncertain parameters, such as the disturbances from the ocean current. In the first part of th...

Given restrictions that comfort conditions in the interior of a building are satisfied, it becomes obvious that the problem of energy conservation is amultidimensional one. Scientists from a variety of fields have been working on this problem for a few decades now; however, essentially it remains an open issue. In the beginning of this article, we define the whole problem in which the topics ar...