Many kinds of stimuli-responsive polymer gels that respond to the change in their surroundings such as solvent composition, temperature, pH, and supply of electric field have been developed. They are of interest as intelligent (or smart, biomimetic) materials which have sensor, processor, and actuator functions. This article is related to stimuliresponsive gels and their application for bioor b...

This article proposes a software framework for multi-sensor, multi-actuator systems, such as our mobile robot LiAS (Leuven intelligent Autonomous System, see figure 1). The framework is based on an agent-based philosophy, which makes it extremely useful for programming behaviour-based controllers, but it is applicable for any type of control. The framework implements the communication protocols...

The technique used to control the airflow is based on the electro-hydrodynamic actuator which is also called plasma actuator. This actuator ensures the airflow control thanks to the electric wind created by the electrical corona discharge. This ionic wind is developed at the profile surface tangential to the initial free airflow so that it has a significant effect on the boundary layer flow. Th...

Adaptive nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control for electromechanical actuator Hao Li a b , Lihua Dou a b & Zhong Su c a School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China b Key Laboratory of Complex System Intelligent Control and Decision (Beijing Institute of Technology), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100081, China c Key Laboratory of Modern Measurement and ...

This paper presents the integration between the components hardware and the driven functions software, resulting in integrated systems called intelligent mechatronic systems. Their development involves finding an optimal balance between the basic mechanical structure, sensor and actuator implementation, automatics information processing and control. A major importance is the simultaneous design...

Communication technology was in the focus of scientific investigations in the the field of automation from the early days on. Industry quickly identified the enormous market potential of distributing intelligent control units, no matter in which field, being it energy production, energy supply, rail transportation, or aviation and space technology. This article intends to review history in orde...

A pneumatic actuator is highly nonlinear, which makes the precise position control of this difficult to achieve. In order achieve control, selecting a suitable model structure prerequisite before estimation. This selection based upon an understanding physical systems. paper, black-box chosen as system identification for modeling Intelligent Pneumatic Actuator (IPA) and variety parametric struct...

Following failures of primary aerodynamic actuators, safe flight can be maintained by introducing alternative actuation systems, such as secondary aerodynamic surfaces and propulsion, for critical stability and control augmentation. This paper presents an intelligent hierarchical flight control system architecture that is designed using nonlinear adaptive synthesis techniques and on-line learni...

This lecture deals with intelligent method based emotional actuator design approaches. Emotional intelligence has been described as the capacity to monitor and regulate one's own feeling and others' feelings, and to use feelings to guide thought and action by Salovey and Mayer in 1990. In light of the above agent definitions, we may have a different decision because entity whose state includes ...