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ItemData Monitoring Sensor Network for Big Net Research TestbedRao, AS ; Izadi, D ; Tellis, RF ; Ekanayake, SW ; Pathirana, PN ; Marusic, S ; Palaniswami, M ; Gubbi, J ; Law, YW (IEEE, 2009-01-01)Equipped with recent advances in electronics and communication, wireless sensor networks gained a rapid development to provide reliable information with higher Quality of Service (QoS) at lower costs. This paper presents a real-time tracking system developed as a part of the ISSNIP BigNet Testbed project. Here a GPS receiver was used to acquire position information of mobile nodes and GSM technology was used as the data communication media. Moreover, Google map based data visualization software was developed to locate the mobile nodes via Internet. This system can be used to accommodate various sensors, such as temperature, pressure, pH etc., and monitor the status of the nodes.
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ItemExplicit Lyapunov functions for stability and performance characterizations of FOREs connected to an integratorZaccarian, L ; Nesic, D ; Teel, AR (IEEE, 2006)In this paper we provide explicit Lyapunov functions that prove that a First Order Reset Element (FORE) in negative feedback interconnection with an integrator is exponentially stable for any, positive or negative, value of the pole of the FORE. The Lyapunov functions also allow to establish finite gain L2 stability from a disturbance input acting at the input of the plant to the plant output. L2 stability is established by giving a bound on the corresponding L2 gains. The framework used for the characterization of the system dynamics and for the stability and performance analysis corresponds to the ideas first proposed in (Nesic et al. IFAC 2005) and (Zaccarian et al. ACC 2005).
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ItemSet-point stabilization of SISO linear systems using First Order Reset ElementsZaccarian, L ; Nesic, D ; Teel, AR (IEEE, 2007-01-01)In this paper we further develop on a novel representation of first order reset elements (FORE) control systems for SISO plants. We study here the problem of guaranteeing asymptotic tracking of constant references for general plants, which may or may not contain an integrator (namely, an internal model of the constant reference signal). We propose a generalization of the FORE which allows to guarantee asymptotic tracking of constant references when the plant parameters are perfectly known. Robustness of the scheme follows from the L infin stability properties of the FORE control schemes. The proposed approach is successfully illustrated on a simulation example.
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ItemPWM hybrid control systems: averaging tools for analysis and designTeel, AR ; Nesic, D (IEEE, 2010)We consider averaging for a class of hybrid systems that are motivated by Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) implementation of hybrid control laws for general nonlinear plants. Rapid time variations in the flow map of a hybrid system generate solutions that are also solutions of a time-invariant average hybrid system that is slightly perturbed. Results relating solutions of the time-varying system to solutions of the average system ensue. In the absence of finite escape times for the average system, on compact time domains each solution of the time-varying system is close to a solution of the average system. In the presence of asymptotic stability for the average system, the time-varying system exhibits semi-global, practical asymptotic stability. These results rely on mild regularity properties for the average system. In particular, the average system is not required to exhibit unique solutions. Both periodic and non-periodic flow maps are considered.
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ItemControl oriented modeling of turbocharged (TC) spark ignition (SI) engineSharma, R ; Nesic, D ; Manzie, C (SAE International, 2009-01-01)
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ItemIdle speed control using linear time varying model predictive control and discrete time approximationsSharma, R ; Nesic, D ; Manzie, C (IEEE, 2010-01-01)This paper addresses the problem of idle speed control of hydrogen fueled internal combustion engine (H2ICE) using model predictive control (MPC) and sampled data control (SDC) theories. In the first step, results from SDC theory and a version of MPC are collectively employed to obtain a rigorously developed new generic control strategy. Here, a controller, based on a family of approximate discrete time models, is designed within a previously proposed framework to have guaranteed practical asymptotic stability of the exact (unknown) discrete time model. Controller design, accomplished using MPC theory, is facilitated by successive online linearizations of the nonlinear discrete time model at each sampling instant. In the second step, the technique is implemented in the idle speed control of hydrogen internal combustion engine (H2ICE). Various conditions under which this theory can be implemented are presented and their validity for idle speed control problem are discussed. Simulations are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the control scheme.
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ItemModel Reduction of Automotive Engines using Perturbation TheorySharma, R ; Nesic, D ; Manzie, C (IEEE, 2009-01-01)In this paper, a new constructive and versatile procedure to systematically reduce the order of control oriented engine models is presented. The technique is governed by the identification of time scale separation within the dynamics of various engine state variables and hence makes extensive use of the perturbation theory. On the basis of the dynamic characteristics and the geometry of engines, two methods for model reduction are proposed. Method 1 involves collective use of the regular and singular perturbation theories to eliminate temperature dynamics and approximate them with their quasi-steady state values, while Method 2 deals with the elimination of fast pressures. The result is a library of engine models which are associated with each other on a sound theoretical basis and simultaneously allow sufficient flexibility in terms of the reduced order modeling of a variety of engines. Different assumptions under which this model reduction is justified are presented and their implications are discussed.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSufficient conditions for stabilization of sampled-data linear spatially distributed parameter systems via discrete time approximationsTan, Y ; Nešić, D (IEEE, 2007-09-27)
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ItemSampled-data output feedback control of distributed parameter systems via semi-discretization in spaTan, Y ; Nesic, D (IFAC, 2008-12-01)
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ItemPoint-wise extremum seeking control scheme under repeatable control environmentTan, Y ; Mareels, I ; Nešić, D ; Xu, JX (IEEE, 2007-01-01)