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Sun, B. (author)Advancements in aerial vehicles have presented new challenges for flight control system design. The disturbed airflow caused by rotors and flapping wings and the nonlinearity and uncertainty increased by morphing components impede the identification of a globally accurate model of these vehicles. Additionally, complex components can increase the...doctoral thesis 2024
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Stam, Noah (author)Neglecting actuator dynamics in nonlinear control and control allocation can lead to performance degradation, especially when considering fast dynamic systems. This thesis provides a novel method to account for actuator dynamics in the control allocation solution, dynamic incremental nonlinear control allocation, or D-INCA. The incremental...master thesis 2024
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Stölzle, Maximilian (author), Baberwal, S. (author), Rus, Daniela (author), Coyle, Shirley (author), Della Santina, C. (author)Integrating Brain-Machine Interfaces into non-clinical applications like robot motion control remains difficult - despite remarkable advancements in clinical settings. Specifically, EEG-based motor imagery systems are still error-prone, posing safety risks when rigid robots operate near humans. This work presents an alternative pathway towards...conference paper 2024
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Aarnoudse, Leontine (author), Pavlov, Alexey (author), Oomen, T.A.E. (author)Iterative learning control (ILC) and repetitive control (RC) can lead to high performance by attenuating repeating disturbances perfectly, yet these approaches may amplify non-repeating disturbances. The aim of this paper is to achieve both perfect, fast attenuation of repeating disturbances and limited amplification of non-repeating...journal article 2024
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Hélant Muller, Diego (author)This thesis report has explored the complex field of satellite formation flying, focusing on Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) strategies for maintaining formations of multiple satellites. The research has been guided by a series of research questions aimed at improving the understanding and implementation of GNC systems for satellite...master thesis 2023
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Liu, Yixuan (author)Linear time-invariant (LTI) controllers suffer from inherent limitations as the waterbed effect and Bode's gain-phase relationship. Reset control, a nonlinear strategy involving the reset of linear controllers, offers a potential solution to overcome these traditional LTI limitations. Based on the describing function analysis, the reset...master thesis 2023
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Maurer, Maarten (author)Control of a helicopter with a deployed dipping sound navigation and ranging (SONAR) is no trivial task due to the complex dynamics of the suspension cable. The cable can change shape, which influences the effect of water, wind and the motion of the helicopter itself. To control such a system, a control method is needed that can cope with these...master thesis 2023
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Guo, M. (author), De Persis, Claudio (author), Tesi, Pietro (author)We consider data-driven control of input-affine systems via approximate nonlinearity cancellation. Data-dependent semi-definite program is developed to characterize the stabilizer such that the linear dynamics of the closed-loop systems is stabilized and the influence of the nonlinear dynamics is decreased. Because of the additional...journal article 2023
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Buitenhuis, R. N. (author), Saikumar, N. (author), Hassan HosseinNia, S. (author)The ever-increasing industry desire for improved performance makes linear controller design run into fundamental limitations. Nonlinear control methods such as Reset Control (RC) are needed to overcome these. RC is a promising candidate since, unlike other nonlinear methods, it easily integrates into the industry-preferred PID design...journal article 2023
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Aarnoudse, Leontine (author), Pavlov, Alexey (author), Oomen, T.A.E. (author)Iterative learning control (ILC) involves a trade-off between perfect, fast attenuation of iteration-invariant disturbances and amplification of iteration-varying ones. The aim of this paper is to develop a nonlinear ILC framework that achieves fast convergence, robustness, and low converged error values in ILC. To this end, the method...journal article 2023
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Yazdi, Seyed Saeid Heidari (author), Rouzbehi, Kumars (author), Carrizosa, Miguel Jimenez (author), Heidary, Amir (author), Bagheri, Mehdi (author)Future high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) networks based on voltage source converters (VSCs) will have different structures (asymmetric monopolar, bipolar, or symmetric monopolar), voltage levels, control, and protection schemes. Therefore, dc-dc converters are needed to interconnect those VSC-HVDC grids and several technical issues on their...journal article 2023
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Mullari, Tanel (author), Kotta, Ülle (author), Kaldmäe, Arvo (author), Kaparin, Vadim (author), Simha, A. (author)This paper addresses the problem of transforming a single-input single-output discrete-time system into the extended observer form which comprises a linear observable component and a nonlinear injection term depending on the input, output and their forward shifts up to a finite order. The necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence...journal article 2023
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Vanderbroeck, Mees (author)The high-tech industry continuously pushes the boundaries of controller performance to achieve faster and more precise machines. Currently, linear control is the standard in the industry. These controllers suffer from the waterbed effect and Bode's phase/gain relation, which impose inherent limitations on the precision and robustness of the...master thesis 2022
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Pollack, T.S.C. (author), van Kampen, E. (author)Flight control systems enable the improvement of natural flying qualities and airframe performance of an aircraft. In this article, an incremental optimization control scheme is proposed to optimize a given performance objective set by the designer in an online fashion using limited model information. This scheme is applied to improve the...conference paper 2022
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de Heer, Pepijn (author)To meet the demanding requirements on the environmental impact of aircraft, radically new aircraft concepts need to be developed. Within the NOVAIR project, Royal Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) tests these new concepts on a Scaled flight demonstrator (SFD). Using an SFD allows for testing of dynamic and flight physical behavior of new...master thesis 2021
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Miyajiwala, Mohammed (author)As the age of industry 4.0 evolves expeditiously, the demand for improved performance in the high-tech industry is rapidly increasing. Industries such as the semiconductor, optical, and metrology have a higher standard in regards of precision to enhance throughput rates and reduce production times between its various stages. The complex machines...master thesis 2021
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Wang, Tingting (author)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...master thesis 2021
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Tsolakis, Anastasios (author)Nonholonomic mechanical systems encompass a large class of practically interesting robotic structures, such as wheeled mobile robots, space manipulators, and multi-fingered robot hands. However, few results exist on the cooperative control of such systems in a generic, distributed approach. In this work we extend a recently developed distributed...master thesis 2021
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Wang, Xuerui (author), Sun, Sihao (author)Quad-plane is a popular type of electric vertical and takeoff/landing (eVTOL) vehicle that hybridizes a quadrotor and a fixed-wing airplane. However, the mechanical simplicity of a quad-plane also makes it vulnerable to rotor failures. When a complete rotor fails, it becomes physically impossible to stop the quad-plane from fast yaw spinning,...journal article 2021
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