The past decade has seen an increase in the use of smart materials in actuator design, notably for inclusion in active structures such as noise-reducing paneling or vibration-controlled buildings. Materials such as shape memory alloys (SMAs), piezoceramics, magnetostrictives and others all offer exciting new actuation possibilities. However, all of these materials present an interesting control...

In this paper we establish passivity for the system which describes the attitude motion of a rigid body in terms of minimal three dimensional kinematic parameters In partic ular we show that linear asymptotically stabilizing controllers and control laws without angular velocity measurements follow naturally from these passivity properties The results of this pa per extend similar results for th...

This paper examines a passivity analysis for a class of discrete-time recurrent neural networks DRNNs with norm-bounded time-varying parameter uncertainties and interval time-varying delay. The activation functions are assumed to be globally Lipschitz continuous. Based on an appropriate type of Lyapunov functional, sufficient passivity conditions for the DRNNs are derived in terms of a family o...

A regulation of converters connected in parallel is discussed considering their stored energy and passivity characteristics. From the viewpoint of stored energy, a new regulation method to conserve and share the stored energy can be found. The energy stored in inductors and capacitors is transferred to loads so that the load keeps the energy dissipation constant. Though numerical simulation, th...

In this paper,the exponential passivity criteria for BAM neural networks with time-varying delays is studied.By constructing new Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional and dividing the delay interval into multiple segments,a novel sufficient condition is established to guarantee the exponential stability of the considered system.Finally,a numerical example is provided to illustrate the usefulness of th...

The level adjustment of cable-driven parallel mechanism is challenging due to the difficulty in obtaining an accurate mathematical model and the fact that different sources of uncertainties exist in the adjustment process. This paper presents application of an adaptive passivity-based control scheme for a cable suspended robot to handle disturbance and uncertainties in mass and moments of inert...