A Bio-inspired Sensing Approach to in-Gust Flight of Flapping Wing MAVs

Flapping wing micro aerial vehicles (FWMAVs) are known for their flight agility and maneuverability. However, their in-gust flight performance and stability is still inferior to their biological counterparts. To this end, a simplified in-gust dynamic model, which could capture the main gust effects on FWMAVs, has been identified with real in...

Using reset control for improvement of transient response

PID is a widely used linear controller in industry field. However, PID is not sufficient enough to meet the increasing requirements because of the functional restrictions, like bode’s phase gain relation and waterbed effect. Nonlinear controllers are then interested by researchers. Reset control, as one of the nonlinear controllers, has more...

Development of the Machine Learning-Based Approach to Access Occupancy Information Through Indoor CO2 Data: for Demand-Driven Building Heating Energy Management

Demand driven building energy management system has gained significant interest in recent years. In order to provide insights for the demand driven building heating energy management at IDE building, TU Delft, this research develops an approach to access real time occupancy information by applying supervised machine learning (ML) classification...

Optimal Swing-up Control of an Inverted Pendulum

Inverted pendulums have been classic setups in the control laboratories since the 1950s. They were originally used to illustrate ideas in linear control such as stabilization of unstable systems. Because of their nonlinear nature, pendulums have maintained their usefulness and they are now used to illustrate many of the ideas emerging in the...

Topology Control in Energy-harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks

Ambient energy-harvesting technology is a promising approach to keep wireless sensor networks (WSNs) operating perennially. Depending on the harvesting source, nodes can either be active (alive) or inactive (dead) at any instant in such Energy-Harvesting WSNs (EH-WSNs). Thus, even in a static deployment of EH-WSNs, the network topology is no...

Haptic Shared Control in Deep Sea Mining: Enhancing Teleoperation of a Subsea Crawler

Deep sea mining is currently being investigated as a possibility to harvest valuable materials from mineral-rich areas located in water depths up to 2000 meters. One promising mining method is to employ a large crawler on the seabed, remotely controlled by an operator on the supporting vessel. Controlling such a vehicle is expected to be...