The eigenstructure assignment scheme for robust multivariable state feedback control is extended to redundantly actuated dynamical systems. The fact that the plants that are atleast square allow for the exact assignment of an arbitrary orthonormal set of closed loop eigenvectors makes this methodology attractive for feedback controller design poorly modeled dynamical systems. For second order m...

Q1: Recall the load balancing game from class: there are m machines and n jobs. Each job j is a player: it has a certain processing time pj and its strategy is to choose a machine to get assigned to. Given an assignment of jobs to machines, the load Li of machine i is the total processing time of the jobs assigned to it, and the cost incurred by a job j is the load of the machine to which it is...

The helix-loop-helix structure formed in the pre-mRNA and the mRNA of L30, a ribosomal protein from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, serves as an auto-regulatory binding site for the protein to suppress the L30 synthesis upon overproduction. Using a 33-nucleotide model RNA, the structures of the L30 binding site RNA in the presence and absence of the protein were investigated using nuclear m...

Unlike the existing views that was introduced the existence of delay caused by the transmission of wide area measurement system data (WAMS) into the controllers input of the power oscilation damping (POD) by communication networks as a reason for poor performance of the POD controllers. This paper shows that the presence of time delay in the feedback loop may improve the performance of a POD co...

In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid variable neighborhood search algorithm combining with the genetic algorithm (VNS+GA) for solving the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problems (FJSPs) to minimize the makespan, the total workload of all machines, and the workload of the busiest machine. Firstly, a mix of two machine assignment rules and two operation sequencing rules are deve...

This paper addresses a scheduling problem motivated by scheduling of diffusion operations in the wafer fabrication facility. In the target problem, jobs arrive at the batch machines at different time instants, and only jobs belonging to the same family can be processed together. Parallel batch machine scheduling typically consists of three types of decisions – batch forming, machine assignment,...

The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) can be solved by linearization, where one formulates the QAP as a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem. On the one hand, most of these linearization are tight, but hardly exploited within a reasonable computing time because of their size. On the other hand, Kaufman and Broeckx formulation [1] is the smallest of these linearizations, but very wea...

The detection and controll of the dry line machine direction position on a fourdrinier paper machine are considered in this work. The dry line position is detected using a digital image processing system consisting of a CCD camera, a frame grabber and a standard PC. The system was installed Ion a kraft liner machine and both open loop and closecl loop experiments were performed with encouraging...

there is not adequate information available about traditional instruction system in the field of visual arts in the pre-modern period. instruction of calligraphy can be considered as traditional instruction of art in a way that its guidelines and instructional texts are remained almost intact. instruction of calligraphy is implemented in aprofessor-student procedure and is accompanied with vari...

In this paper, a general discussion on the controller design for transient response control is first conducted based on the polynomial method. It is shown for general all-pole close-loop systems, their step responses have zero or nearly zero overshoot under the nominal characteristic ratio assignment [2.5, 2, 2, . . .]; while the time constant τ determines the speed of response. The control of ...