In this paper we study image based visual servo (IBVS) control of a four rotor vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) craft known as an X4-fEyer. The approach taken is tailored to planar visual targets and is based on a reformulation and extension of 2 2 0 image-based visual servo design [14, 11 to the control of dynamic under-actuated systems. Exponential stability of the closed loop system is pr...

This paper presents the LQ-Servo control with observer for TCP/AQM system considering an input time-delay. This controller structure is made by taking a traditional servo mechanism based on Linear Quadratic approach and by augmenting a new state variable to the feed forward loop. In order to estimate the state of TCP window packet size, the control structure is extended with observer based on K...

A more robust servo control system using Sliding Mode Control to handle shock and vibration disturbances for optical disc drive systems is presented in the paper. An estimator-based SMC controller is used in the radial servoloop instead of the traditional PID controller. Simulation and experimental results show a significant improvement of the drive’s anti-shock performance in the radial direct...

This study described a two axes pneumatic driven manipulator, which is driven by the servo cylinder. Through visual image technology, the position between the tip of the probe and the target was determined. Therefore, the visual servo can be produced the control command. A fuzzy controller with a dead zone compensator was designed to improve the position precision of a nonlinear pneumatic drive...

The area of control system engineering that mainly deals in obtaining the robustness of system in the existence of uncertainties is known as robust control. In this paper, a graphical design method is developed for obtaining the entire range of PID controller gains that stabilize a D.C. servo plant robustly with the existence of time delays and additive uncertainty employed. This method of desi...

We describe the architecture and implementation of the Solid Earth Research Virtual Observatory (SERVO)’s Complexity Computational Environment. We base our design on a globally scalable distributed “cyber-infrastructure,” or Grid, built around a Web Services-based approach consistent with the extended Web Service Interoperability (WS-I+) model. In order to investigate problems in earthquake mod...

Missing position error signal sampling data in hard disk drives (HDDs) results in their servo systems having irregular sampling rates (ISRs).With the natural periodicity ofHDDs, which is related to the disk rotation, HDD servo systems with ISRs can be modeled as linear periodically time-varying systems. Based on our previous results, an explicit minimum entropy controller for HDD servos with IS...

In this paper, an adaptive piecewise linear control scheme is proposed for improving the performance and response time of servo mechanical control systems. It is a gain stabilized control technique. No large phase lead compensations or pole zero cancellations are needed for performance improvement. Large gain is used for large tracking error to get fast response. Small gain is used between larg...

In magnetic disk drive actuators, requirements to record and read data at higher track densities has made mechanical resonances of the servo actuator, suspension and the head gimbal assembly a critial consideration. The application of piezo electric material in the servo actuator can be used to re ne and accomplish track following in (extremely) high track density magnetic data storage by contr...

Magnetic servo levitation (MSL) is currently being investigated as an alternative to drive fast-tool servo systems that could overcome the range limitations inherent to piezoelectric driven devices while operating over a wide bandwidth. To control such systems, a feedback-linearized controller coupled with a Kalman filter has been previously described. Performance limitations that degrade track...