Bill Horne MakeWaves, Inc. 832 Valley Road Watchung, NJ 07060 We present a computationally efficient algorithm for function approximation with piecewise linear sigmoidal nodes. A one hidden layer network is constructed one node at a time using the method of fitting the residual. The task of fitting individual nodes is accomplished using a new algorithm that searchs for the best fit by solving a...

Among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in English Language Teaching (ELT), particularly in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. The wealth of published material for English language teaching (ELT) available in the mark...

In this paper, we present an adaptive extremum seeking control scheme for continuous stirred tank bioreactors. The proposed adaptive extremum seeking approach utilizes the structure information of the kinetics of the bioreactors to construct a seeking algorithm that drives the system states to the desired set-points that extremize the value of an objective function. Lyapunov’s stability theorem...

the goal of this article is to study the shimashki potteries in the saymarreh valley. archaeological surveys conducted in the saymarreh valley shows that the painted pottery tradition of godin iii has become prevalent in the valley during the bronze age and only once, development of this pottery tradition had cracked. this event took place in the phase of godin iii4, which we relate it to the i...

A systematic experiment verification of Chaos Embedded Sliding Mode Extremum Seeking Control for maximum power point tracking and a method for detecting possible faults in small wind turbine systems in advance are proposed in this paper. The chaotic logistic map is used to replace the random function in the particle swarm optimization algorithm for faster searching the optimal control parameter...

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Extremum-seeking control is a class of methods where real-time static optimization of a dynamic system is achieved by controlling the gradient. Estimation of the gradient is a key issue in extremum-seeking methods. In multi-unit optimization, the gradient is obtained using finite difference of the outputs of multiple identical units driven with inputs that are offset by a design parameter. Howe...