Process control charts are proven techniques for improving quality. Specifying the control limits is the most important step in designing a control chart. The presence of outliers may extremely affect the estimates of parameters using classical methods. Robust estimators which are not affected by outliers or the small departures from the model assumptions are applied in this paper to specify th...

This paper is concerned with the stabilization of nonholonomic systems in port-controlled Hamiltonian formulae via generalized canonical transformations. A special class of timevarying generalized canonical transformations are introduced which preserves the passivity property. Utilizing this transformation timevarying asymptotically stabilizing controllers for the nonholonomic Hamiltonian syste...