The control of an ideal reactive distillation column is compared with that of a similar, but somewhat di2erent, real chemical system, the production of methyl acetate. Similarities and di2erences are observed. Three control structures are evaluated for both systems. A control structure with one internal composition controller and one temperature controller provides e2ective control of both syst...

We show that it is possible to realize significant nonlinear optical interactions at the few photon level in graphene nanostructures. Our approach takes advantage of the electric field enhancement associated with the strong confinement of graphene plasmons and the large intrinsic nonlinearity of graphene. Such a system could provide a powerful platform for quantum nonlinear optical control of l...

This manuscript deals with the stabilization of a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems under control saturations including time-varying parameter dependency. The studied control law consists of the gain scheduled feedback of the measured output and of the nonlinearity present in the dynamics of the controlled system. Furthermore the saturations are taken into account by modeling the nonline...

In this paper we investigate the synchronization problem of drive-response chaotic systems with a scalar coupling signal. By using the scalar transmitted signal from the drive chaotic system, an observer-based response chaotic system with dead-zone nonlinear input is designed. An output feedback control technique is derived to achieve generalized projective synchronization between the drive sys...

This paper discusses about the stabilization of unknown nonlinear discrete-time fixed state delay systems. The unknown system nonlinearity is approximated by Chebyshev neural network (CNN), and weight update law is presented for approximating the system nonlinearity. Using appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional the stability of the nonlinear system is ensured by the solution of linear matri...

Fe(3+) ions in sapphire exhibit an electron spin resonance which interacts strongly with high-Q whispering gallery modes at microwave frequencies. We report the first observation of a third-order paramagnetic nonlinear susceptibility in such a resonator at cryogenic temperatures and the first demonstration of four-wave mixing using this parametric nonlinearity. This observation of an all-microw...