This paper studies the H control problem for a nonlinear large-scale system with unknown disturbance. In the large-scale system, each subsystem “without” nonlinear interconnections and disturbance is transformed into a T-S fuzzy system. Moreover, based on a linear decomposition, the nonlinear interconnection corresponding to each subsystem is decomposed to a linear weighting interconnection wh...

Employing disturbance observers is an effective way of enhancing the stability and performance of the control systems subject to disturbances. Disturbance observers have been extensively used for control of mechatronic systems since their introduction in the 1980s. This thesis studies the design of nonlinear disturbance observers for robotic manipulators and their applications in the control of...

A survey on opium use was earned out in Tinsukia district of upper Assam to assess the present prevalence and pattern of opium abuse and compared with earlier findings of the year 1981 (Baruah et al., 1995). A total of 75 addicts could be detected during the survey and 61 were interviewed using structured questionnaire. The results indicate significant decline in prevalence in opium use over th...

This paper presents a practical application of fuzzy logic to the temperature control of glass melting furnace for television picture tube. Because of the complexity and nonlinearity, temperature control of glass melting furnace is still delegated to human operators. Though the overall characteristics of glass melting furnace are complex and nonlinear, one part of the furnace characteristics ca...

This paper considers a class of linear uncertain systems in which the uncertainty is an additive perturbation of a known (nominal) linear model. It is supposed that the uncertainty and/or disturbance is known to be bounded, but its bound is unkown. A novel, easy to implement, adaptive feedback control law is designed to estimate the bounded disturbance on-line. This information is then used to ...

In this paper, the disturbance attenuation properties in the sense of uniformly ultimate boundedness are investigated for a class of switched linear systems with parametric uncertainties and exterior disturbances. The aim is to characterize the conditions under which the switched system can achieve a finite disturbance attenuation level. First, arbitrary switching signals are considered, and a ...

Disturbance aspects of iterative learning control (ILC) are considered. By using a linear framework it is possible to investigate the influence of the disturbances in the frequency domain. The effects of the design filters in the ILC algorithm on the disturbance properties can then be analyzed. The analysis is supported by simulations and experiments. # 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights

This note investigates the trade-off arising in disturbance attenuation for nonlinear feedback systems in the framework of integral input-to-state stability. Similarly to the linear case, we show that if a gain tuning on one subsystem is used to drastically reduce the effect of its exogenous disturbances, then the other subsystem’s disturbance attenuation is qualitatively the same as in open loop.