Anisotropy of sand is mainly due to the geometrical arrangement of particles that depends on the orientation of applied load respect to the bedding plane. It is geologically due to micro-fabric created by the arrangement of the particles configured during deposition. Most of the models develop using stress/strain invariants are not capable of identifying this kind of anisotropy. This is mainly ...

This paper is about the design of a Sliding Mode Controller (SMC), with modified PI-D sliding surface, for the control of First Order Plus Dead Time (FOPDT) process. In the modified PI-D sliding surface, error is connected to the proportional and integral elements of the controller, and the derivative of the system output is connected to derivative element of the controller. The usage of PI-D s...

In this paper, a new approach to the super-twisting sliding mode control of uncertain systems is proposed. The idea behind this control scheme is to utilize an adaptive sliding surface function, in which the slope of the surface is updated on-line using a simple single input-single output fuzzy logic inference system so that the sliding surface is rotated in such a direction that the tracking p...

This paper investigates the robust ∞ H sliding mode control problem for a class of uncertain switched delay systems. A single sliding surface is constructed such that the reduced-order equivalent sliding motion restricted to the sliding surface is completely invariant to all admissible uncertainties. For cases of known delay and unknown delay, the existence conditions of the sliding surface are...

Path following control problem of autonomous vehicles is investigated, concerning both unmeasurable sliding effects and lateral disturbances which lead to some difficulties in designing autonomous control under complex environment. To deal with the sliding effects, sideslip angles are modeled and reconstructed by estimating the tire cornering stiffness, which plays important role in analyzing t...

they turned out to be lung overinflation and subcutaneous emphysema on computed tomography. In severe cases of lung overinflation, there is a minimal expansion of lung on inspiration leading to minimal lung sliding seen on US. It can be mistaken as a lack of lung sliding. Moreover, in subcutaneous emphysema, pockets of air in subcutaneous tissues make identification of pleural line difficult, l...

This paper presents a robust sliding mode controller for a class of unknown nonlinear discretetime systems in the presence of fixed time delay. A neural-network approximation and the Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional theory into the sliding-mode technique is used and a neural-network based sliding mode control scheme is proposed. Because of the novality of Chebyshev Neural Networks (CNNs), that it...

A new guidance law utilizing variable structure control with finite time sliding sector is proposed. First, a finite time sliding sector is defined. The finite time sliding sector is a subset of state space in which the Lyapunov function candidate satisfies the finite time stability condition, in contrast to the commonly used notion of asymptotic stability in conventional sliding sector. Then, ...

A decoupled fuzzy sliding-mode control for an aeroelastic system is derived. This aeroelastic dynamic system describes the nonlinear plunge and pitch motions of a wing section, using a single trailing-edge flap as the control input. The decoupled fuzzy sliding-mode control design method is proposed to simultaneously control both the plunge and pitch motions of the aeroelastic system. In this de...