A dynamic state feedback control stmcture is proposed in this paper. The scheme is conceived as an adaptive controller with the equilibrium in an LgV control law as the uncertain parameter, which allows the implementation of the controller for systems with unknown equilibnum. A new property of LgV controllers is given, and it is proven that this and other important properties carry on to the pr...

The aim of this work is to motivate the use of linear flatness, or controllability, to design a feedback control law for the rather challenging mechanism known as the ‘Furuta pendulum’. This is achieved by introducing three feedback controller design options for the stabilization and rest-to-rest trajectory tracking tasks: a direct pole placement approach, a hierarchical high-gain approach and ...

For a general H 2 optimal control problem, at rst all H 2 optimal measurement feedback controllers are characterized and parameterized, and then attention is focused on controllers with observer based architecture. Both full order as well as reduced order observer based H 2 optimal controllers are characterized and parameterized. Also, systematic methods of designing them are presented. An impo...

We present a SIR+ASI epidemic model to describe the interaction between human and dengue fever mosquito populations. A control strategy in the form of vaccination, to decrease the number of infected individuals, is used. An optimal control approach is applied in order to find the best way to fight the disease.

In the context of controlling the attitude of a rigid body, this communique uses recent results on representations of torques (moments) to establish cost functions. The resulting cost functions are both properly invariant under whatever choice of Euler angles is used to parameterize the rotation of the rigid body and have transparent physical interpretations. The function is related to existing...

In the new deregulated electric power market, energy transactions are generally processed in terms of hourly energy delivery. Failing to fulfill energy delivery obligation may result in penaltalt to energy tiesprodp. This paper studies the relationship between generation level schedule, energy delivery schedule and physical ramp-rate of a generating unit. It is shown that although ramp-rate con...

Information spreading in a population can be modeled as an epidemic. Campaigners (e.g. election campaign managers, companies marketing products or movies) are interested in spreading a message by a given deadline, using limited resources. In this paper, we formulate the above situation as an optimal control problem and the solution (using Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle) prescribes an optimal re...

Economists were interested in economic stabilization policies as early as the 1930’s but the formal applications of stability theory from the classical control theory to economic analysis appeared in the early 1950’s when a number of control engineers actively collaborated with economists on economic stability and feedback mechanisms. The theory of optimal control resulting from the contributio...

The paper describes the analysis, design and control of two new versions of spherical permanent magnet motor, which are capable of two and three degrees-of-freedom of controlled motion, and have a high specific torque capability. Their magnetic field distribution is established using an analytical technique formulated in spherical coordinates. This enables the torque vector and back-emf to be d...