This study explores decentralized structural control using wireless sensors and controllers. In a decentralized control scheme, control decisions are based upon data acquired from sensors located in the vicinity of a control device. Specifically, this paper studies a time-delayed decentralized structural control strategy that aims to minimize the H2 norm of a closed-loop control system. For dec...

Complexities inherent to large-scale modern civil structures pose many challenges in the design of feedback structural control systems for dynamic response mitigation. With the emergence of low-cost sensors and control devices creating technologies from which large-scale structural control systems can deploy, a future control system may contain hundreds, or even thousands, of such devices. Key ...

Control of the interacting multivariable systems can be in the simplest way realized by single input single output PID/PI controllers (so called decentralized control). When model of the process is not a priori known, basic information about system can be obtained by relay autotuner. Controllers tuning is then realized in a few iterations, e.g. by sequential method. This approach may be improve...

A novel decentralized variable structure neural control approach for large-scale uncertain systems is developed using Recurrent High Order Neural Networks (RHONN). It is assumed that each subsystem belongs to a class of block-controllable nonlinear systems whose vector fields includes interconnections terms. The interconnection terms are bounded by nonlinear functions. A decentralized RHONN str...

Built on the combined strength of decentralized control and the recently introduced virtual structure approach, a decentralized formation scheme for spacecraft formation flying is presented in this paper. Following a decentralized coordination architecture via the virtual structure approach, decentralized formation control strategies are introduced, which are appropriate when a large number of ...

Built on the combined strength of decentralized control and the recently introduced virtual structure approach, a decentralized formation scheme for spacecraft formation flying is presented in this paper. Following a decentralized coordination architecture via the virtual structure approach, decentralized formation control strategies are introduced, which are appropriate when a large number of ...

Modern baggage handling processes in airports use destination coded vehicles (DCVs) to transport the luggage at high speeds. These vehicles transport the bags on a “mini” railway network. In order optimize the performance of a DCV-based baggage handling system, the route of each DCV has to be determined. In this paper we consider an event-based model of this system. For routing the DCVs through...

In this paper, our focus is to compare two decentralized control laws implemented to a three-machine power system which generators are strongly nonlinear interconnected. We present first a linear decentralized control, which gains depend on the system nonlinearity, and confirm, via simulations, its ability to enhance the system transient stability. The second technique is a nonlinear decentrali...

This paper provides a new approach to decentralized failure-tolerant control using passivitybased stability conditions. A controller design method is developed to achieve both decentralized unconditional stability (a transformed passivity condition) and user-specified H2 performance. The control synthesis problem is solved by using successive semidefinite programming. The proposed method is ill...