The purpose of the paper is to present an approach to detect, isolate and accommodate the sensor or actuator faults using bank of unknown input observers (UIO). Full order observers, reduced order observers, unknown input observers and Kalman Filter are widely used in state estimations [1]. After the estimation of states, fault detection and isolation can be provided by conducting residual anal...

This paper features the modelling and design of a type of multirate output feedback based controller (Fast Output Sampling Feedback FOS) to control the flexural vibrations of a smart flexible Timoshenko cantilever beam for a Single Input Single Output (SISO) case by retaining the first 2 dominant vibratory modes. Piezoelectric patches are bonded as sensor / actuator to the master structure at d...

In active structural acoustic control the goal is to reduce the sound radiation of a structure by means of changing the vibrational behaviour of that structure. The performance of such an active control system is to a large extent determined by the locations of the actuators and sensors. In this work an approach is presented for the optimization of the actuator and sensor locations. The approac...

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conomic pressures are dispersing machine intelligence away E from centralized computers toward distributed Fieldbus devices. Simultaneously, the control concept is being extended to include other operational factors such as quality assurance, process data management, just-in-time maintenance, and plant safety and availability. As credible sensing and actuation are essential prerequisites for ad...

Modular self-assembling on-orbit robots have the potential to reduce mission costs, increase reliability, and permit on-orbit repair and refueling. Modules with a variety of specialized capabilities would self-assemble from orbiting inventories. The assembled modules would then share resources such as power and sensors. As each free-flying module carries its own attitude control actuators, the ...

Acid or base concentrations can be determined by coulometric titration. A new alliridium oxide sensor-actuator device is presented, of which the titrant is generated by a reversible redox reaction occurring in the electroactive iridium oxide actuator electrode, and the equivalence point in the titration curve is detected by the pH-sensitive iridium oxide sensor. The advantage with respect to th...

The purpose of the paper is to present an approach to detect, isolate and accommodate the sensor or actuator faults using bank of observer and unknown input observers (UIO). Full order observers, reduced order observers, unknown input observers and Kalman Filter are widely used in state estimations [1]. After the estimation of states, fault detection and isolation can be provided by conducting ...

In this paper we present a self-organizing and self-stabilizing cluster and routing algorithm for actuator and sensor networks that is solely based on publish/subscribe primitives. The algorithm design captivates with its simplicity and is yet robust against node and link failures. The provided publish/subscribe middleware which incorporates the algorithm allows an elegant application design fo...

In this paper we present our view of sensor and actuator networks, how we position them relative to the network of the future and what support such networks would both bring to and require from the existing and future core network. We put a special emphasis on the support infrastructure, and describe our envisioned architecture for a future ubiquitous sensor and actuator framework