in this paper, the problem of decentralized model reference adaptive control (mrac) for a class of large scale systems with time varying delay in interconnected term and input and state delays is studied. to compensate the effect of input delay indirectly, a smith predictor built on. to handle the effects of the time delays in input, the adaptive controller part includes two auxiliary dynamic f...

To describe stress and coping in families of children with Smith-Magenis syndrome, the present authors interviewed and received questionnaires from families of 36 children with this disorder. For measures of total stress, and of parent and family problems, the best predictors were the family's number of friends and the child's degree of impairment on the Vineland socialization domain; the singl...

A compliant constant-force actuator based on the cylinder is an important tool for contact operation of robots. Due to nonlinearity and time delay pneumatic system, traditional proportional–integral–derivative (PID) method constant force control does not work so well. In this paper, improved PID combining a backpropagation (BP) neural network Smith predictor proposed. Through MATLAB simulation ...

Discovering parallel corpora on the web is a challenging task. In this paper, we use cross-language information retrieval techniques in combination with structural features to retrieve candidate page pairs from a commercial search engine. The candidate page pairs are then filtered using techniques described by Resnik and Smith (2003) to determine if they are translations. The results allow the ...

With active vehicle suspension, one can tailor a vehicle's response to load and inertial disturbances without affecting the vehicle response to road disturbances. This decoupling is achieved in (Williams and Best 1994) and (Smith and Wang 2002) using a filtered combination of measured signals. These filters, which we call Williams filters, require exact knowledge of certain vehicle parameters i...

In this paper a new method is introduced and investigated for removing the destabilizing effects of time-delay parameter in control loops. The concept of the method is taken from the knowledge concerning the dynamic behaviour of irrational transfer functions (Ir-TF), which is discussed and investigated elswhere in frequency response domain and is explained briefly here. Ir-TFs, which are we...