background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of arterial blood gases (abgs) in determining the type of intoxication. methods: medical charts of all patients who had referred to the toxicology ward of baharloo hospital between january 2009 and december 2009 were evaluated. after excluding the patients with multi-drug toxicity, data, including age, sex, type of intoxication (the...

in this article the methodology proposed by li and wang for mixed qualitative and quantitative modeling and simulation of temporal behavior of processing unit is reexamined and extended to more complex case. the main issue of their approach considers the multivariate statistics of principal component analysis (pca), along with clustered fuzzy digraphs and reasoning. the pca and fuzzy clustering...

Uncertainty from renewable energy and loads is one of the major challenges for stable grid operation. Various approaches have been explored to remedy these uncertainties. In this paper, we design centralized or decentralized statefeedback controllers for generators while considering worst-case uncertainty. Specifically, this paper introduces the notion of L∞ robust control and stability for unc...

background and objective : poor sleep, poor quality of sleep and sleepiness are among the common problems as-sociated with learning, memory and educational performance in children and adolescents. considering the lack of pre-vious literature in this field, especially in the city of yazd, iran, a number of high-school students of the city participat-ed in a study to assess sleep problems and inf...

In this paper, the tracking control problem of a class of uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems subjected to unknown input delay and bounded disturbances is addressed. To this front, a novel delay dependent control law, referred as Adaptive Robust Outer Loop Control (AROLC) is proposed. Compared to the conventional predictor based approaches, the proposed controller is capable of negotiating any inp...

Stabilization and trajectory control of a quadrotor carrying a suspended load with a fixed known mass has been extensively studied in recent years. However, the load mass is not always known beforehand or may vary during the practical transportations. This mass uncertainty brings uncertain disturbances to the quadrotor system, causing existing controllers to have worse stability and trajectory ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a discrete-time adaptive model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for a class of constrained linear time-invariant systems subject to state-dependent disturbances, which updates the estimate of uncertain system parameters on-line and produces the control input ensuring the constraint fulfillment. This method is based on an adaptive mechanism and a robust MPC algori...