The presence of multiple or diffuse lesions on imaging is a contraindication to surgery for patients with intractable epilepsy. Theoretically, as a functional imaging technique, electrical impedance tomography (EIT) can accurately image epileptic foci. However, most current studies are limited to examining epileptic spikes and few studies use EIT for real-time imaging of seizure activity. Moreo...

For stabilization of a robot manipulator upon collision with a stiff environment, a nonlinear bang-bang impact controller is developed. Under this control, a robot can successfully achieve contact tasks without changing control algorithm or controller gains throughout all three modes: free space, transition and constrained motion. It uses a robust hybrid impedance/time-delay control algorithm t...

A strategy to improve the performance of current commercial industrial robots is presented in this paper. This strategy involves cooperation of two robotic manipulators: the robotic controlled impedance device (RCID) and a commercial industrial robot. The RCID is a small six degrees-of-freedom (DOF) high bandwidth force–impedance controlled parallel manipulator, developed at the School of Engin...

A position-based impedance controller is proposed and demonstrated on an existing hydraulic press with a two-way vertically mounted hydraulic cylinder driven by a servo-solenoid valve. A proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller and a Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) are primarily developed to meet the accurate positioning requirements of the impedance control formulation. The impedance fil...

A master-slave type remote ultrasound diagnostic system was developed. This paper presents and evaluates its control strategy. There is only one impedance controller that is located in the master site or the slave site or the relay point in the conventional impedance controller. Therefore, the effect of the time lag in transmitting force and position data becomes large in the conventional syste...

 The resonance between power-factor-correction capacitors and the line reactance is a common cause for harmonic problems in traditional power systems. Grid-connected inverters integrating renewable energy sources into the grid exhibit capacitive output impedance at harmonic frequencies and may also resonate with the grid impedance. In addition to possible amplification of current and voltage ...

This paper proposes a theory for optimizing the power generated from stationary stochastic vibratory disturbances, using a resonant energy harvester. Although the theory is general, the target application of the paper concerns ocean wave energy harvesting. The control technique involves the use of a causal discrete-time feedback algorithm to dynamically optimize the power extracted from the wav...

This paper presents a study of different force control schemes for controlling contact during manipulation tasks at the microscale. Explicit force control and impedance control are compared in a contact transition scenario consisting of a compliant microforce sensor mounted on a microrobotic positioner, and a compliant microstructure fabricated using Silicon MEMS. A traditional double mass-spri...

This paper focuses on the control of the mechanical impedance of an aircraft yoke. The control architecture involves an inner position servo-loop and an outer loop feedbacking the torque/force measurement to the position reference input through the required admitance model. Two different approaches are presented for the inner position servo-loop design: a classical Proportional-Derivative contr...

An electric railway system is a typical single-phase grid-connected converter system, and the low-frequency oscillation (LFO) phenomenon in systems has been widely reported around world. Previous research indicated that LFO small-signal instability issue caused by impedance mismatching between traction network trains. Therefore, this paper proposes an improved q-axis current control method to r...