Project management is a well-known management technique that has gained success because it encourages better organization and good engineering practice. This technique is also being used at CERN where projects are managed by engineers. They usually find themselves not at ease with a methodology and a jargon that are typical of an economical context. This paper presents a different approach to t...

The application of a dual relay feedback approach towards the identification of frictional effects in servo-mechanisms will be presented in this paper. The friction model, thus identified, will consist of Coulomb (including possibly directional Coulomb or load bias) and viscous friction components, both of which can be automatically extracted from suitably designed relay experiments. At the sam...