This paper presents the results of rubbertuator modeling for purposes of control applications. A pair of rubbertuators is constructed as a revolute joint. The rubbertuator arm is highly nonlinear and exhibits hysteresis. The frequency modeling method was implemented using software agents within the Intelligent Machine Architecture (IMA) framework. Several linear models were built, simulated, an...

Hysteresis inverters are used in many low and medium voltage utility applications when the inverter line current is required to track a sinusoidal reference within a specified error margin. Line harmonic generation from those inverters depends principally on the particular switching pattern applied to the valves. The switching pattern of hysteresis inverters is produced through line current fee...

Many low-mass X-ray binaries show both hard and soft spectral states. For several sources the transitions between these states have been observed, mostly from the soft to the hard state during a luminosity decrease. In a few cases also the transition from the hard to the soft state was observed, coincident with an increase of the luminosity. Surprisingly this luminosity was not the same as the ...

Understanding how net ecosystem exchange (NEE) changes with temperature is central to the debate on climate change-carbon cycle feedbacks, but still remains unclear. Here, we used eddy covariance measurements of NEE from 20 FLUXNET sites (203 site-years of data) in midand high-latitude forests to investigate the temperature response of NEE. Years were divided into two half thermal years (increa...

Elastic robot joints gain in importance since the nowadays robotics tends to the lightweight structures. The lightweight metals and composite materials deployed not only in the links but also in the joint assemblies affect the overall stiffness of robotic system. The elastic joints provide the loaded robot motion with additional compliance and can lead to significant control errors and vibratio...

We propose a novel approach to describe wetting of plane solid surfaces by liquid drops. A two-dimensional nonconserved phase field variable is employed to distinguish between wetted and nonwetted regions on the surface. The imbalance in the Young's force provides for the exchange of relative stability of the two phases. The three-phase contact line tension arises from the gradient energy and c...

Today magnetic materials are employed in a truly wide range of applications, and have contributed materially to advances in electronics. On the other hand computer-based simulation tools are convenient for analyzing complex systems. Unfortunately there is insufficiency of models describing electrical behavior of such nonlinear devises. In order to simulate this devices with modern electronic de...

This paper propose an accurate Fuzzy model for describing dynamic hysteresis of ferromagnetic material from measured data using soft computing approaches. We highlighted a fuzzy dynamic model based on measured and normalized input/output data on a C core transformer made of 0.33mm laminations of cold rolled SiFe. Membership’s functions of fuzzy rules are obtained by using the Expectation-Maximi...

The bias-field-dependent dielectricity of ferroelectric thin films is studied by use of a multilayer model capable of modeling saturated and unsaturated hysteresis behavior under arbitrary fields. The simulated minor hysteresis loops at different bias fields are used to calculate the variation of dielectric permittivity with the bias field. The -E loops show asymmetric shifting along the field ...