Feedback connection of (strict) passive systems with multiplicative disturbance on the input of one of systems is considered. Series of conditions are proposed, which provide (strict) passivity property for overall system. These conditions enlarge result from Hill, and Moylan (1977), where passivity property of such connection was established. Applications of proposed results to backstepping co...

The property of decentralized integral controllability (DIC) is related to the concept of passivity in this note. A su$cient condition for DIC is proposed based on the passivity theorem and a computational method for testing DIC is presented. 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

process essentially is conservative and, in some discipline, produces a regression to some mean—all articles in a particular journal resemble each other. As a result, there is little innovation in the forms and contents of thinking and theorizing. Despite being in special institutional positions (variously theorized as gatekeepers or obligatory points of passage), few editors appear to allow mo...

Individuals with schizophrenia, particularly those with passivity symptoms, may not feel in control of their actions, believing them to be controlled by external agents. Cognitive operations that contribute to these symptoms may include abnormal processing in agency as well as body representations that deal with body schema and body image. However, these operations in schizophrenia are not full...

We consider the problem of passivity control for a kind of T-S fuzzy system in the literature [1].We will extend it to the uncertain T-S fuzzy descriptor systems with time-delay in this paper. Generally speaking, a mathematical model cannot be used to exactly describe a dynamical system in practice because it is inevitable to include some degrees of uncertainties in the systems. Moreover, time-...

Time delayed teleoperation has been one of the first and most challenging topics in robotic control. Although numerous methods have been developed by researchers all over the world during the last two decades, those methods have limitations or need special assumptions to be applied. With the development of the world-wide-web, teleoperation through the Internet sees a bright future. However, the...