# Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Research Publications

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Closeness of Solutions for Singularly Perturbed Systems via Averaging
Deghat, M ; Ahmadizadeh, S ; Nesic, D ; Manzie, C ( 2018-09-20)
This paper studies the behavior of singularly perturbed nonlinear differential equations with boundary-layer solutions that do not necessarily converge to an equilibrium. Using the average of the fast variable and assuming the boundary layer solutions converge to a bounded set, results on the closeness of solutions of the singularly perturbed system to the solutions of the reduced average and boundary layer systems over a finite time interval are presented. The closeness of solutions error is shown to be of order O(\sqrt(\epsilon)), where \epsilon is the perturbation parameter.
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Adaptive Scan for Atomic Force Microscopy Based on Online Optimisation: Theory and Experiment
Wang, K ; Ruppert, MG ; Manzie, C ; Nesic, D ; Yong, YK ( 2019-02-11)
A major challenge in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is to reduce the scan duration while retaining the image quality. Conventionally, the scan rate is restricted to a sufficiently small value in order to ensure a desirable image quality as well as a safe tip-sample contact force. This usually results in a conservative scan rate for samples that have a large variation in aspect ratio and/or for scan patterns that have a varying linear velocity. In this paper, an adaptive scan scheme is proposed to alleviate this problem. A scan line-based performance metric balancing both imaging speed and accuracy is proposed, and the scan rate is adapted such that the metric is optimised online in the presence of aspect ratio and/or linear velocity variations. The online optimisation is achieved using an extremum-seeking (ES) approach, and a semi-global practical asymptotic stability (SGPAS) result is shown for the overall system. Finally, the proposed scheme is demonstrated via both simulation and experiment.
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Ordinal Optimisation for the Gaussian Copula Model
Chin, R ; Rowe, JE ; Shames, I ; Manzie, C ; Nešić, D ( 2019-11-05)
We present results on the estimation and evaluation of success probabilities for ordinal optimisation over uncountable sets (such as subsets of R d ). Our formulation invokes an assumption of a Gaussian copula model, and we show that the success probability can be equivalently computed by assuming a special case of additive noise. We formally prove a lower bound on the success probability under the Gaussian copula model, and numerical experiments demonstrate that the lower bound yields a reasonable approximation to the actual success probability. Lastly, we showcase the utility of our results by guaranteeing high success probabilities with ordinal optimisation.