Switching Model Predictive Control of canals characterized by large operating conditions

This paper presents a switched linear system representation of water canal dynamics to incorporate different operating modes, which arise due to the occurrence of extreme weather phenomena such as flooding and drought episodes. To guarantee the stability during mode switching, a proper analysis on permanence regions-given by a collection of...

The Immersion and Invariance Wind Speed Estimator Revisited and New Results

The Immersion and Invariance (II) wind speed estimator is a powerful and widely-used technique to estimate the rotor effective wind speed on horizontal axis wind turbines. Anyway, its global convergence proof is rather cumbersome, which hinders the extension of the method and proof to time-delayed and/or uncertain systems. In this letter, we...

Determination of Stable Time-delay Regions in Incremental Control Systems

Incremental control techniques such as Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion (INDI) and Incremental Backstepping (IBS) have gained recent popularity, especially in the aerospace community, due to their versatility and effectiveness which entails robustness to imprecise knowledge about the controlled system as well as robustness to external...

A Lyapunov approach to stability analysis of partial synchronization in delay-coupled networks

Networks of interconnected dynamical systems may exhibit a so-called partial synchronization phenomenon, which refers to synchronous behaviors of some but not all of the systems. The patterns of partial synchronization are often characterized by partial synchronization manifolds, which are linear invariant subspace of the state space of the...

Robust and Transparent Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Bilateral Teleoperation with Time-Delay

Robots are particularly well suited for executing tasks that take place in locations which are too dangerous or inaccessible to human operators. For robot manipulators to execute complex activities in unknown, unstructured environments, despite the recent increases in computation power, human input is still required for task planning and...