This paper proposes efficient step response model implementation strategies that lead to accurate control and high computational performance in an embedded Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme. Different implementations of the step response prediction model are examined, and inherent properties that directly affect control performance in the presence of disturbances are discussed. Model errors...

This paper deals with the control of the heat exchangers. Due to the resonant effect on this systems, simplified lumped parameters models obtained from the step response can be not enough appropriate to controller design if high performance is required. To design the control, instead of looking for a precise heat exchanger model obtained through complex experiments and sophisticated parameter e...

Abstract: The medical irrigation pump is a common medical device for cleaning the wound in the surgery. A thermostatic irrigation pump with a PID (proportional-integral-derivative) controller was designed to provide warm solution nearing the body core temperature for surgical irrigation. Firstly, an experiment was designed to obtain the step response curve, so as to derive the mathematical mode...

An Integrated Product Model (IPM) stands for a conceptual model describing data of a technical product. It is used as basic technology of enabling application systems to exchange and share product data. Within the IPM development, the integration of data models is an important process. Unfortunately, because of the model complexity, it is difficult for the IPM developer to have control of it. T...

This paper proposes new methodology for the detection and matching of salient points over several views of an object. The process is composed by three main phases. In the first step, detection is carried out by adopting a new perceptually-inspired 3D saliency measure. Such measure allows the detection of few sparse salient points that characterize distinctive portions of the surface. In the sec...

The effect of chemical reactions on the blast initiation of detonation in gaseous media has been investigated in this paper. Analytical method is based on the numerical solution of onedimensional reactive Euler equations. So far, analyses on the blast initiation of detonation have modeled the combustion process as a one-step chemical reaction, which follows the Arrhenius rate law. Previous stud...