Organ blood flow is determined by perfusion pressure and vasomotor tone in the resistance vessels of the organ. Local factors that regulate vasomotor tone include myogenic and metabolic autoregulation, flow-mediated and conducted responses, and vasoactive substances released from red blood cells. The relative importance of each of these factors varies over time, from tissue to tissue, and among...

We present a novel approach to dealing with overfitting in black box models. It is based on the leverages of the samples, that is, on the influence that each observation has on the parameters of the model. Since overfitting is the consequence of the model specializing on specific data points during training, we present a selection method for nonlinear models based on the estimation of leverages...

A. Shvetsov,1,* A. M. Satanin,1 Franco Nori,2,3 S. Savel’ev,3,4 and A. M. Zagoskin3,4,† 1Nizhny Novgorod State University, Gagarin Avenue, 23, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 2Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1040, USA 3CEMS, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 4Department of Physics, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom (Received 14 ...

There are two significant goals in teleoperation systems: Stability and performance. This paper introduces an LMI-based robust control method for bilateral transparent teleoperation systems in presence of model mismatch. The uncertainties in time delay in communication channel, task environment and model parameters of master-slave systems is called model mismatch. The time delay in communicatio...

In this work, we report the experimental implementation of a Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT) based robust controller, designed online using hybrid global optimization and constraint propagation techniques. The hybrid global optimization combines interval global optimization and nonlinear local optimization methods. The constraint propagation techniques are very effective in discarding infeas...

Asynchronous automata are a model of communication processes with a distributed control structure, global initializations and global accepting conditions. The well-known theorem of Zielonka states that they recognize exactly the class of regular Mazurkiewicz trace languages. In this paper we study the particular case of distributed asynchronous automata, which require that the initializations a...

Inventory or material balance control is an important part of process control. In the literature, many rules have been proposed to help in designing such systems, but their justification is often unclear. The main contribution of this paper is to propose the more general local-consistency rule for evaluating inventory control systems. Consistency means that the steady-state mass balances (total...

We present a new optimal control approach to robust control of robot manipulators in the framework of Lin et al [7]. Because of the unknown load placed on a manipulator and the other uncertainties in the manipulator dynamics, it is important to design a robust control law that will guarantee the performance of the manipulator under these uncertainties. To solve this robust control problem, we f...