This paper presents a decentralized, model predictive control algorithm for the optimal guidance and reconfiguration of swarms of spacecraft composed of hundreds to thousands of agents with limited capabilities. In previous work,J2-invariant orbits have been found to provide collision-freemotion for hundreds of orbits in a lowEarth orbit. This paper develops real-time optimal control algorithms...

Design for reconfigurability becomes an important issue in manufacturing systems research because of the increasing needs of rapid response to the changing customer demands. The control system plays a key role in the reconfiguration of manufacturing systems. It enables the flexibility of the manufacturing system and determines the overall system performance. In particular, with the manufacturin...

This paper develops a stochastic hybrid model-based control system that can determine online the optimal control actions, detect faults quickly in the control process, and reconfigure the controller accordingly using interacting multiple-model (IMM) estimator and generalized predictive control (GPC) algorithm. A fault detection and control system consists of two main parts: the first is the fau...

Soft Open Points (SOPs) are power electronic devices installed in place of normally-open points in electrical power distribution networks. They are able to provide active power flow control, reactive power compensation and voltage regulation under normal network operating conditions, as well as fast fault isolation and supply restoration under abnormal conditions. A steady state analysis framew...