This paper presents iterative learning control (ILC) schemes for batch-varying references. Generally, reference or target trajectory must be identical for all iterations to implement the ILC. However, references can be changed in dynamic systems such as robotics and chemical processes according to cycle or batch. ILC schemes for batch-varying references are proposed in three forms which are inv...

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a simple and efficient solution to improve tracking accuracy for systems that execute repetitively the same tracing operation. For engineering applications of ILC, the main concern is the monotonic decay of tracking errors, in the sense of infinity norm or peak error, along the trials. Low cost in implementation and robustness in performance are also critical...

Among cases of breast carcinoma metastatic to the uterus, the percentage of these cases that are invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is higher than what may be expected when one considers the relative infrequency of ILC at the primary site. However, fewer than 10 cases of metastatic ILC of the breast detected in the cervical smear have been reported in the literature. Although several variants of ...

The goal of Iterative Learning Control ILC is to improve the accuracy of a system that repeatedly follows a reference trajectory This paper proves that for any causal ILC there is an equivalent feedback that achieves or approaches the ultimate ILC error with no iterations Remarkably this equivalent feedback depends only on the ILC operators and hence requires no plant knowledge This equivalence...

This paper presents Two-Dimensional (2-D) system analysis based Iterative Learning Control (ILC) methods for Linear Time-Variant (LTV) discrete systems with multiple time delays. Both the state delays and the input delays are considered in the ILC design. The ILC research strategy for LTV discrete systems with multiple time delays is to rescontruct the derived ILC error equations into the 2-D R...

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is a childhood-onset syndrome characterized by the presence and persistence of motor and vocal tics. A dysfunction of cortico-striato-pallido-thalamo-cortical networks in this syndrome has been supported by convergent data from neuro-pathological, electrophysiological as well as structural and functional neuroimaging studies. Here, we addressed the question of str...

Innate lymphoid cells (ILC) are a recently described group of tissue-resident immune cells that play essential roles in maintaining and protecting the tissue barrier against invading pathogens. Extensive research has revealed that ILC-mediated immune responses are controlled by dietary components and metabolites. An additional role of ILC as important direct regulators of host metabolism and gl...

Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC-2s) regulate immune responses to pathogens and maintain tissue homeostasis in response to cytokines. Positive regulation of ILC-2s through ICOS has been recently elucidated. We demonstrate here that PD-1 is an important negative regulator of KLRG1+ ILC-2 function in both mice and humans. Increase in KLRG1+ ILC-2 cell numbers was attributed to an intrinsic defe...

Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are recently identified lymphocytes that limit infection and promote tissue repair at mucosal surfaces. However, the pathways underlying ILC development remain unclear. Here we show that the transcription factor NFIL3 directs the development of a committed bone marrow precursor that differentiates into all known ILC lineages. NFIL3 was required in the common lymphoi...

BACKGROUND Infiltrating lobular carcinoma (ILC) is the second most common type of invasive breast cancers and it has been reported to have some unique biologic and epidemiologic characteristics. METHODS Clinicopathological features of 95 patients with ILC, their relapse free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) were retrospectively investigated and compared with those of 3,621 patients wi...