{"title":"Control Design of Ethanol Steam Reforming in Thermal Plasma Reformer","authors":"Huan-Liang Tsai, Chi-Sheng Wang, P. Duc","doi":"10.1109/CCA.2007.4389315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2007.4389315","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a design for mass flow rates control of ethanol/water and temperature control of the 1 kWe thermal plasma reformer, which uses ethanol steam reforming method to perform hydrogen production. A thermodynamic equilibrium prediction is firstly performed to obtain an optimal working condition at temperature of 750degC and at mole flow rate ratio of ethanol to water of 1:3. The mass flow rates of ethanol and water are then controlled to meet the requirement of hydrogen production at 30SLPM. Finally, with energy balance equation, the temperature control is designed using electric power to maintain the thermal plasma reformer at working temperature of 750degC and desired inlet mass flow rate of fuel and water. Both mass flow rate and temperature controls are implemented in an electric control unit with a PID control law. The experimental data, which are collected from the 1 kWe thermal plasma reformer at Clean Energy R&D Center, Da-Yeh University, Taiwan, R.O.C., are compared with the predicted data. The results show that they approximately fit in with each other at temperature of 750degC under the ethanol/water mole flow rate of 1:3.","PeriodicalId":176828,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125888731","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":"Lyapunov-Based Adaptive Visual Servo Tracking Control Using Central Catadioptric Camera","authors":"G. Hu, W. Dixon","doi":"10.1109/CCA.2007.4389446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2007.4389446","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a Lyapunov-based visual servo tracking controller is developed for a 6 degree-of-freedom camera-in-hand central catadioptric camera system. By using the central catadioptric camera, a panoramic field of view can be obtained. A Lyapunov-based tracking controller is developed by using homography-based image geometry coupled with a quaternion rotation representation. Finally, an asymptotic tracking result is proven through Lyapunov-based analysis methods.","PeriodicalId":176828,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128511547","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":"Design and flight testing of H∞ lateral flight control for an unmanned air vehicle","authors":"K. Natesan, M. Bhat","doi":"10.1109/CCA.2007.4389346","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2007.4389346","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the design and flight testing of a H∞ Stability Augmentation System to improve the lateral handling qualities of a remotely controlled Unmanned Air Vehicle is presented. The problem of decoupling the roll response and the sideslip response using model-matching approach is considered along with control sensitivity minimization. In contrast to the conventional two degree of freedom controller design using model-matching approach, a single degree of freedom controller is designed in this paper for ease of implementation. Gain scheduling is avoided by designing the controller at a single flight condition that robustly stabilizes the closed loop system and retains performance characteristics at all flight conditions. For the purpose of determining the design point, two approaches, namely worst-case analysis and proximity of plant models is performed at all flight conditions. Robustness of the closed loop system to both structured and unstructured uncertainties at all flight conditions is examined through mu analysis. Final flight test results are compared with offline nonlinear simulations.","PeriodicalId":176828,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130851637","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":"Real-time Obstacle Avoidance Strategy for Mobile Robot Based On Improved Coordinating Potential Field with Genetic Algorithm","authors":"Y. Cen, Lihua Wang, Han-dong Zhang","doi":"10.1109/CCA.2007.4389266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2007.4389266","url":null,"abstract":"To overcome the problems during navigation of mobile robots in dynamic environment using the traditional artificial potential field (APF) method, a novel improved method called coordinating potential field (CPF) is proposed. The local potential field is constructed by using local subgoals, which obtained by updating dynamic windows. The questions of local minima, oscillation between multiple obstacles and real-time dynamic obstacle avoidance are solved. At last multi-objective parameter optimization is implemented by using adaptive genetic algorithm. Simulation results indicate that this strategy is practicable and effective.","PeriodicalId":176828,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications","volume":"2179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130091674","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}
Sheng Lu, Zhong-Jian Cai, Xiao-Li Cao, Gaorong Zeng, Tan Liu
{"title":"Automatic Ranging System of Vehicles with Risk Estimation and Decision Making Based on MPC5200","authors":"Sheng Lu, Zhong-Jian Cai, Xiao-Li Cao, Gaorong Zeng, Tan Liu","doi":"10.1109/CCA.2007.4389272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2007.4389272","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the structure and theory of optical-mechanical-electrical automatic ranging system of vehicles, paper has a discussion and research of the architecture and design of auto ranging system with risk estimation and decision making basing on MPC5200, which includes hardware architecture, software architecture and key technology, etc. The system adopts the laser-lidar ranging method to get a high precision and it presents a method of mounting the reflecting points on the rotating bearing to enhance the accuracy of speed checking. We also considered the solution of dealing with all kinds of road surfaces.","PeriodicalId":176828,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121121993","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":"Gain-scheduled Linear Quadratic Control of Wind Turbines Operating at High Wind Speed","authors":"Kasper Zinck Ostergaard, P. Brath, J. Stoustrup","doi":"10.1109/CCA.2007.4389243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2007.4389243","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses state estimation and linear quadratic (LQ) control of variable speed variable pitch wind turbines. On the basis of a nonlinear model of a wind turbine, a set of operating conditions is identified and a LQ controller is designed for each operating point. The controller gains are then interpolated linearly to get a control law for the entire operating envelope. The states and the gain-scheduling variable are not online available and an observer is designed. This is done in a modular approach in which a linear estimator is used to estimate the non-measured state variables and the unknown input, aerodynamic torque. From the estimated aerodynamic torque and rotor speed and measured pitch angle the scheduling variable effective wind speed is calculated by inverting the aerodynamic model. Simulation results are given that display good performance of the observers and comparisons with a controller designed by classical methods display the potential of the method.","PeriodicalId":176828,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications","volume":"32 24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125737298","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 Model of a Brushless DC Motor","authors":"H. B. Hansen, C. Kallesøe, J. Bendtsen","doi":"10.1109/CCA.2007.4389385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2007.4389385","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel approach to modeling of a brush-less direct current motor (BLDCM) driven by an inverter using hybrid systems theory. Hybrid systems combine continuous and discrete (event-based) dynamics, which is exactly the case in an inverter-driven BLDCM. The model presented in this work consists of a general automaton with discrete states, combined with a set of continuous dynamic equations describing the electro-mechanical behavior of the motor. One of the significant benefits of this strategy is that the model describes the motor under all possible operating conditions. The model is derived for the common case of a BLDCM in wye-connection with a three-leg inverter. The model is verified on a real BLDCM drive and shows good agreement with experiments.","PeriodicalId":176828,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124156597","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":"Robust Adaptive Control of Coordinated Multiple Mobile Manipulators","authors":"Zhijun Li, S. Ge, Zhuping Wang","doi":"10.1109/CCA.2007.4389208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2007.4389208","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, robust adaptive controls of multiple mobile manipulators carrying a common object in a cooperative manner have been investigated with unknown inertia parameters and disturbances. At first, a concise dynamics consisting of the dynamics of mobile manipulators and the geometrical constraints between the end-effectors and the object is developed for coordinated multiple mobile manipulators, Then, robust adaptive controls have been designed where parametric uncertainties are compensated by adaptive update techniques and the disturbances are suppressed. Simulation studies on the control of coordinated two wheels driven mobile manipulators have been used to show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.","PeriodicalId":176828,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127631110","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":"Sliding Mode Observer-Based Fault Detection and Isolation in Flight Control Systems","authors":"Jing-jing Liu, B. Jiang, Youmin Zhang","doi":"10.1109/CCA.2007.4389372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2007.4389372","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with observer-based actuator fault detection, isolation and estimation (FDIE) schemes for a class of linear systems with external disturbances. To isolate and estimate the possible actuator faults, we first relate each possibility to a faulty model, then for each possible faulty model, we design a corresponding sliding mode observer (SMO), the residuals are defined as the norm of the magnitudes of the output estimation errors resulting from all possible faulty models. It is proved that, for the faulty model corresponding to the faulty actuator, the designed SMO can ensure the related output estimation error converges to a sufficiently small neighborhood. It is also shown that, for all other possible faulty models, the related output estimation errors are much larger. Finally, a research civil aircraft model (RCAM) is used to illustrate the design procedures and the effectiveness of the proposed actuator FDIE method.","PeriodicalId":176828,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116951955","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":"Inducing Unusual Dynamics in Acoustic Musical Instruments","authors":"E. Berdahl, J. Smith","doi":"10.1109/CCA.2007.4389421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2007.4389421","url":null,"abstract":"The dynamic behavior of an acoustic musical instrument can be drastically modified by closing a feedback loop around even a single sensor and actuator. After reviewing proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control, we analyze RMS level-tracking controllers, which induce a stable limit cycle with specified RMS level when an audio effect is placed in the feedback loop. The space of the RMS level-tracking controllers whose error converges exponentially to zero is succinctly described, and this space is augmented to include controllers that support multiple stable equilibria. Next, an adaptive RMS level-tracking controller is developed that can accommodate changing instrument and audio effect parameters. Finally, several example controllers are tested on a simulated vibrating string to demonstrate 1) creating multiple stable equilibria, 2) driving amplitudes of the string harmonics to various targets (for instance to make the string \"sing\" vowels), and 3) reducing the dynamic range of resonant ring modulation for time-varying effect parameters.","PeriodicalId":176828,"journal":{"name":"2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131266950","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}