{"title":"Quantification of valve stiction based on a semi-physical model","authors":"Q. He, Jin Wang","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2013.6580511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2013.6580511","url":null,"abstract":"Valve stiction is one of the most common equipment problems that can cause poor performance in control loops. Consequently, there is a strong need in the process industry for non-invasive methods that can not only detect but also quantify stiction. In this work, a semi-physical valve stiction model is derived from the analysis of the dynamic response of a physical model. Based on the semi-physical model, we propose a noninvasive valve stiction quantification method using the routine operating data from the process. The algorithm is proposed to estimate the stiction parameters, namely static friction and dynamic or kinetic friction, without requiring the valve position signal. Quantification is accomplished by using linear and nonlinear least-squares methods which are robust and easy to implement. Several simulation examples, including both self-regulating and integrating processes with different degrees of stiction, are used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.","PeriodicalId":145065,"journal":{"name":"2013 American Control Conference","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127674174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cooperative target tracking in balanced circular formation: Multiple UAVs tracking a ground vehicle","authors":"Lili Ma, N. Hovakimyan","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2013.6580679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2013.6580679","url":null,"abstract":"This paper extends our previous results on vision-based target tracking of a ground vehicle by one UAV to cooperative tracking using multiple UAVs. An early-designed guidance law that orbits one UAV around the moving target is augmented with an additional term for coordination. This extra term, which can be computed based on the relative bearing angle between two UAVs, puts all UAVs into a balanced circular formation, where all agents spread evenly on a circle. Three communication topologies are considered, i.e., an all-to-all communication, a ring topology, and a cyclic pursuit topology. The effectiveness of the proposed cooperative target tracking control laws is demonstrated by numerical simulation examples.","PeriodicalId":145065,"journal":{"name":"2013 American Control Conference","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127676132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model Reference Control to reduce both the jerk and frictional loss during DCT gear shifting","authors":"S. Yuan, Li Chen","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2013.6580895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2013.6580895","url":null,"abstract":"A research of achieving a brand-new balance between controlling the jerk level and decreasing the frictional energy loss during Dual-clutch Transmission (DCT)'s gearshifts has been done in this paper. The general gearshift of a DCT is divided into several stages for better dynamic derivation and controller design. Based on detailed dynamic modeling, the Model Reference Control (MRC) method is proposed and integrated into the traditional control logic together with PID control configuration so as to observe the best gearshift quality. Numeric simulations and parallel parameter optimization is proceeded on Matlab platform. The results demonstrate that the MRC method applied on DCT clutch control can evidently reduce both the jerk shock and frictional loss of dual-clutch operations, which proves MRC method as a wise choice of DCT controlling strategy. Meanwhile, several theoretical predictions have been verified by the simulation curves to show the effectiveness of MRC again.","PeriodicalId":145065,"journal":{"name":"2013 American Control Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126354305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A method of camera selection based on partially observable Markov decision process model in camera networks","authors":"Qian Li, Zhengxing Sun, Song-Le Chen, Yudi Liu","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2013.6580424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2013.6580424","url":null,"abstract":"Camera selection in camera networks is a dynamic decision-making process based on the analysis and evaluation of visual content. In this paper, a novel camera selection method based on a partially observable Markov decision process model (POMDP) is proposed, in which the belief states of the model are used to represent noisy visual information and an innovative evaluation function is defined to identify the most informative of several multi-view video streams. Our experiments show that these proposed visual evaluation criteria successfully measure changes in scenes and our camera selection method effectively reduces camera switching when compared to other state-of-the-art methods.","PeriodicalId":145065,"journal":{"name":"2013 American Control Conference","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126202233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A hybrid observer for a class of DC-DC power converters","authors":"Ahmed-Redha Meghnous, M. Pham, X. Lin-Shi","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2013.6580814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2013.6580814","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new observer for a class of DC-DC power converters based on a hybrid system approach. The considered class of switched systems contains two modes. Interestingly, the observability of each mode is not required. An original observer is designed to estimate the state over all modes by using available information provided by current and previous observable states. We show that the stability of the observer is guaranteed independently of the switching sequence. An application to a Single-Ended Primary Inductor Converter (SEPIC) is presented in simulation.","PeriodicalId":145065,"journal":{"name":"2013 American Control Conference","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128031340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On active vibration suppression of a piezoelectric beam","authors":"Qinling Zheng, H. Richter, Zhiqiang Gao","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2013.6580877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2013.6580877","url":null,"abstract":"Piezoelectric beam's dynamics are characterized by elastic properties, nonlinearities, uncertain dynamics and unknown disturbances, making it a challenging control problem. In this paper, a method of Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) for piezoelectric beam control is proposed. Unique to this approach, the complex piezoelectric beam dynamics, known or unknown, linear or nonlinear, and all external disturbances are treated in their totality as an input disturbance, and is subsequently estimated and canceled. Simulation and experimental results in this paper demonstrate the significant advancement of the ADRC as an easier, simpler and better control method that is ready to be deployed in practice.","PeriodicalId":145065,"journal":{"name":"2013 American Control Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128094150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Coogan, L. Ratliff, Daniel J. Calderone, C. Tomlin, S. Sastry
{"title":"Energy management via pricing in LQ dynamic games","authors":"S. Coogan, L. Ratliff, Daniel J. Calderone, C. Tomlin, S. Sastry","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2013.6579877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2013.6579877","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the use of pricing mechanisms as a means to achieve a desired feedback control strategy among selfish agents in the context of HVAC resource allocation in buildings. We pose the problem of resource allocation as a linear-quadratic game with many dynamically coupled zone occupants(agents) and an uncoupled social planner. The social planner influences the game by choosing the quadratic dependence on control actions for each agent's cost function. We propose a neighborhood-based simplification of the dynamic game that results in a more realistic and scalable framework than is considered in standard dynamic game theory. In addition, we construct the pricing design problem as a convex feasibility problem and apply our method to an eight zone building model.","PeriodicalId":145065,"journal":{"name":"2013 American Control Conference","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125704721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhihao Xu, M. Egerstedt, Greg N. Droge, K. Schilling
{"title":"Balanced deployment of multiple robots using a modified kuramoto model","authors":"Zhihao Xu, M. Egerstedt, Greg N. Droge, K. Schilling","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2013.6580800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2013.6580800","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the problem of making multiple agents spread out equidistantly on a circle. The proposed solution is a new Kuramoto-like model for multi-robot coordination, in which the standard sine-terms have been replaced by cosines. This new interaction model enables the balanced deployment of agents on a circle, while only taking into account the local information of each agent's two neighbors on a cycle graph. This means that individual agents do not need to know the (relative) states of all agents nor how many other agents are indeed present in the network. We illustrate the operation of the proposed protocol in simulation as well as extend it to a nonlinear scenario by optimizing over the coupling weights.","PeriodicalId":145065,"journal":{"name":"2013 American Control Conference","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125738791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Calculation of ℌ∞-optimal actuator location for distributed parameter systems","authors":"Dhanaraja Kasinathan, K. Morris, Steven D. Yang","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2013.6580143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2013.6580143","url":null,"abstract":"In control of distributed parameter systems, there is usually freedom on where to place the actuators. The actuator location should be chosen to optimize the performance objectives and regarded as part of the controller design. In this paper, H∞-performance with full information is considered. An algorithm to solve the problem is described and the optimal actuator locations are calculated for several examples.","PeriodicalId":145065,"journal":{"name":"2013 American Control Conference","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115839117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Semismooth equation approach to Network Utility Maximization (NUM)","authors":"Lijie Bai, A. Raghunathan","doi":"10.1109/ACC.2013.6580580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2013.6580580","url":null,"abstract":"Popular approach to solving NUM utilizes dual decomposition and subgradient iterations, which are extremely slow to converge. Recently there has been investigation of barrier methods for the solution of NUM which have been shown to posess second order convergence. However, the question of accelerating dual decomposition based methods is still open. We propose a novel semismooth equation approach to solving the standard dual decomposition formulation of NUM.We show that under fairly mild assumptions that the approach converges locally superlinearly to the solution of the NUM. Globalization of the proposed algorithm using a linesearch is also described. Numerical experiments show that the approach is competitive with a state-of-the-art nonlinear programming solver which solves the NUM without decomposition.","PeriodicalId":145065,"journal":{"name":"2013 American Control Conference","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115863142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}