The Leg-Wheel-Vehicle paradigm offers remarkable and diverse opportunities for creation of mobile and maneuverable terrestrial locomotion systems. However, this capability needs to be unlocked by careful design and control of the individual articulations, the sub-chains and the systems as a whole. Viewing leg-wheel vehicles as another class of parallelkinematic systems now facilitates the syste...

Systematic methods for the optimization of chemical mechanical planarization ~CMP! from the viewpoint of consumable effects are discussed. Two methods, one, the precision control and design of the pad topography, and the second, the precision control and design of the abrasive size distribution are proposed to optimize the material removal rate and nonuniformity in CMP based on a material remov...

In this paper, we describe a systematic design procedure for reconfigurable machine tools and their associated control systems. The starting point for the design is a set of operations that must be performed on a given part or part family. These operations are decomposed into a set of functions that the machine must perform, and the functions are mapped to machine modules, each of which has an ...

In this paper, we describe a systematic design procedure for reconfigurable machine tools and their associated control systems. The starting point for the design is a set of operations that must be performed on a given part or part family. These operations are decomposed into a set of functions that the machine must perform, and the functions are mapped to machine modules, each of which has an ...

The paper deals with a systematic approach to the control system design with a final goal to efficiently control some living conditions in a test chamber. The mathematical model was implemented in MATLAB Simulink environment. The structure is modular, the robust numerical algorithms give accurate results and fast simulation runs. The developed simulator gives an ideal environment for the design...

Using systematic development processes is an important characteristic of any mature engineering discipline. In current software practice, Software Design Methodologies (SDMs) are intended to be used to help design software more systematically. This paper explicitly shows, however, that one well-known example of such an SDM, Booch Object-Oriented Design (BOOD), as described in the literature is ...

Embedded systems composed of hardware and software components are designed to interact with a physical environment in real-time in order to fulfill control objectives and system specifications. In this paper, we address the complex design challenges in embedded software by focusing on predictive and systematic hierarchical design methodologies which promote system verification and validation. F...