The rapid growth of space utilization requires extensive construction, and maintenance of space structures and satellites in orbit. This will, in turn, substantiate application of robotic systems in space. In this paper, a near-minimum-time optimal control law is developed for a rigid space platform with flexible links during an orientating maneuver with large angle of rotation. The time opti...

Proportional damping is a widely used approach to model dissipative forces in complex engineering structures and it has been used in various dynamic problems for more than ten decades. A major limitation of the mass and stiffness proportional damping approximation is the lack of generality of the model to allow for experimentally observed variation of damping factors with respect to vibration f...

This paper is devoted to analysis of undamped oscillations generated by fractional order linear time invariant (LTI) systems. At first, the trajectories of marginally stable commensurate order systems are investigated. It is verified that we can not use the time-independent phase flow concept for this kind of systems. Also, the differences with the integer order case are highlighted. Then, it i...

Purpose: Three levels of learning developed by Gregory Bateson in the tradition of second‐order cybernetics have in‐part been translated in terms of double‐loop and triple‐loop learning, particularly in the tradition of systems thinking. Learning III and triple‐loop learning have gained less popularity since they deal with less tangible issues regarding virtues of wisdom and justice respective...

We consider an undamped second order in time evolution equation. For any positive value of the initial energy, we give sufficient conditions to conclude nonexistence of global solutions. The analysis is based on a differential inequality. The success of our result is based in a detailed analysis which is different from the ones commonly used to prove blow-up. Several examples are given improvin...

This paper presents a recent self-sampled-data control algorithm applied to nonlinear systems with actuator failures. Our approach uses the linear model of a given nonlinear system, and based on a granted actuator fault observer method, an asynchronous sampled-data fault compensator controller is then formulated. The proposed sampling rule is realized by using an event-detector monitoring signa...