A new active feedback network is proposed for reducing intermodulation distortion (IMD). It is based on using the existing second harmonic zone (SHZ) distortion energy generated by the amplifier to predistort the input signals optimally to obtain a linear output. The technique is analyzed theoretically and practical results demonstrate the linearization performance. The measured two-tone test s...

Mechatronics is the art of directing the advances of a variety of academic and engineering areas to solve the smart machine problems. Author Supervisor Summary Title Language Keywords Document type Date www.md.kth.se This thesis treats block-oriented modelling, approximate linearization and control of a nonlinear pneumatic actuator system. The definition of the block-oriented nonlinear model is...

Using the FACTS controllers, such as static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), as it provides continuous reactive power, in the grid including wind turbine (WT) equipped with doubly fed induction generator, for improving voltage profile (under normal circumstances) and providing a transition ability from inductor generator transition state has been proposed. In this paper, in order to contr...

This paper investigates the use of nonregular (not necessarily regular) static/dynamic state feedbacks to achieve feedback linearization of affine nonlinear systems. First, we provide an example which is nonregular static feedback linearizable but is not regular dynamic feedback linearizable. Then, we present some necessary conditions as well as sufficient conditions for nonregular feedback lin...

A new concept of airship without thrust, elevator or rudder is considered in this thesis. It is actuated by a moving mass and a mass-adjustable internal air bladder. This results into the motion of the center of gravity and the change of the net lift. The development of this concept of airship is motivated by energy saving. An eight degrees-of-freedom complete nonlinear mathematical model of th...

This paper presents the design of a neural network based feedback linearization (NNFBL) controller for a two degree-offreedom (DOF), quarter-car, servo-hydraulic vehicle suspension system. The main objective of the direct adaptive NNFBL controller is to improve the system’s ride comfort and handling quality. A feedforward, multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network (NN) model that is well suit...

Feedback linearization is one of the major academic approaches for controlling exible joint robots. This contribution investigates the discrete-time implementation of the feedback linearization approach for a realistic threeaxis robot model. A simulation study of high speed tracking with model uncertainty is performed. It is assumed that full state measurements of the linearizing states are ava...

The complete control design for a permanent magnet synchronous (PMAC) motor, derived from the input-output linearization, is presented in the paper. The motor model, written in the rotor’s d-q coordinates, is nonlinear with respect to the state variables and linear in the control. The input-output linearization makes it possible to write the motor’s model in Brunovski decoupled canonical form w...

The study of genetic map linearization leads to a combinatorial hard problem, called the minimum breakpoint linearization (MBL) problem. It is aimed at finding a linearization of a partial order which attains the minimum breakpoint distance to a reference total order. The approximation algorithms previously developed for the MBL problem are only applicable to genetic maps in which genes or mark...

In this paper, the problem of non-regular static state feedback linearization of nonlinear switched systems is considered. Using semi-tensor product, some easily verifiable sufficient conditions for non-regular feedback linearization are obtained. Then an example is presented to illustrate the non-regular linearization process.