{"title":"Vehicle sideslip estimation using tyre force measurements","authors":"A. K. Madhusudhanan, M. Corno, E. Holweg","doi":"10.1109/MED.2015.7158734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2015.7158734","url":null,"abstract":"Estimating vehicle sideslip is challenging as well as important for vehicle safety systems such as Electronic Stability Control. In this work, a Kalman filter is proposed to estimate vehicle sideslip using tyre force measurements. Most of the vehicle sideslip estimators do not use tyre force measurements and are based on tyre force model. Because of the tyre force model nonlinearities and uncertainties, the estimator accuracy depends highly on factors such as tyre-road friction, vertical load, temperature, tyre pressure, etc. Therefore availability of tyre force measurements offers benefits in vehicle sideslip estimation. The proposed estimator also has advantage over accelerometer based estimators as the later can have estimation errors from roll and pitch dynamics. The estimator is studied in a multi-body vehicle simulator for various maneuvers.","PeriodicalId":316642,"journal":{"name":"2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114753365","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}
Hanoch Efraim, S. Arogeti, Amir Shapiro, Gera Weiss
{"title":"Output feedback control of Micro Aerial Vehicle in indoor environment","authors":"Hanoch Efraim, S. Arogeti, Amir Shapiro, Gera Weiss","doi":"10.1109/MED.2015.7158826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2015.7158826","url":null,"abstract":"A novel approach for control of a Micro Air Vehicle in indoor environment (specifically within corridors) using only vision and angular velocity sensors as measuring devices is presented. The suggested controller does not include explicit attitude feedback, thus eliminating the need for accelerometers which are susceptible to vibrations, and complex attitude estimation algorithms. Furthermore, linear velocity measurement which can be difficult to achieve in indoor environment is not required to damp the system. A model for the hovercraft and visual measurements is presented, and stability analysis of the suggested controller is performed and supported by a complete six degrees of freedom simulation.","PeriodicalId":316642,"journal":{"name":"2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127241999","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":"Efficiency boosting for PV systems using new MPPT method","authors":"Maissa Farhat, O. Barambones, L. Sbita","doi":"10.1109/MED.2015.7158840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2015.7158840","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a PV system topology incorporating a new maximum power point tracking controller (MPPT) method using a PI controller is studied. The controller is formulated based on the bijectivity between the Voltage and Power in the PV generator (PVG) characteristic; therefore if the optimal voltage is reached, this means that the maximum of power is obtained. The proposed MPPT algorithm is implemented on a dSpace DS1104 controller board. In order to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm in real time, an experimental setup using a boost converter connected to a resistive load is successfully implemented and studied. The obtained experimental results prove the validity of the proposed MPPT algorithm.","PeriodicalId":316642,"journal":{"name":"2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126078713","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 distributed analysis and design method for the synchronization of linear heterogeneous SISO systems by static state control","authors":"Saman Khodaverdian, J. Adamy","doi":"10.1109/MED.2015.7158896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2015.7158896","url":null,"abstract":"We present a design scheme for the synchronization of linear heterogeneous SISO systems by static feedback controllers. Extending some recent results, a distributed method is provided for synchronizing non-identical agents by a simple synchronization controller for homogeneous agents. In [4], it was shown that for a special condition heterogeneous agents can be synchronized by static controllers. In this paper, we present a constructive approach to analyze the satisfiability of this condition in a distributed manner and to design an appropriate controller.","PeriodicalId":316642,"journal":{"name":"2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122021140","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":"Receding horizon control of tumor growth based on optimal control","authors":"J. M. Lemos, D. Caiado","doi":"10.1109/MED.2015.7158743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2015.7158743","url":null,"abstract":"Receding horizon control (RH) is a powerful and well known technique used to embed feedback in the solution of a dynamic optimization problem. In most published approaches, RH control is associated to model predictive control and amounts to minimize a cost defined over an horizon that slides in time. The optimization is done with respect to a sequence of candidate values for the manipulated variable, of which only the first is used. When considering nonlinear control problems, if the candidate sequence of the manipulated variables is left free of any constraint related to the plant dynamics (apart from operational constraints), there is the danger that the numerical method used converges to a local minimum. In this paper, instead, the minimization is performed using a relaxation algorithm that approximates the solution of Pontryagin's optimality conditions. This approach has the advantage of shaping the solution using the state and adjoint equations and, in addition, provides a natural approach to continuous RH problems. This algorithm is applied here to design therapies for tumor growth, modeled by the Gompertz model. A comparison of quadratic costs with costs that lead to sparse control signals, i. e. that are zero instead of assuming a small value, is also done.","PeriodicalId":316642,"journal":{"name":"2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121917734","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":"Leak isolation based on Extended Kalman Filter in a plastic pipeline under temperature variations with real-data validation","authors":"J. Delgado-Aguiñaga, G. Besançon, O. Begovich","doi":"10.1109/MED.2015.7158769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2015.7158769","url":null,"abstract":"The present work is motivated by the purpose of considering a more realistic scenario than in former studies on the problem of leak isolation within a plastic pipeline, when the water can be affected by temperature changes. In order to address this situation, a state observer approach based on a model including temperature effect and an Extended Kalman Filter is proposed. Noting indeed that temperature affects some equivalent straight length of the pipe, which is used in the model, the observer estimates it together with the leak coefficients. This approach only considers head pressure and flow rate measurements coming from pipeline ends, likewise, water temperature measurement at upstream tank. Results with real data obtained from a pipeline prototype are shown in two different ways in order to illustrate the performance of proposed leak isolation system, as compared to the traditional approaches found at literature.","PeriodicalId":316642,"journal":{"name":"2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121966886","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 Unifying Decision-Making Framework to study secrecy in decentralized discrete event systems","authors":"A. Khoumsi","doi":"10.1109/MED.2015.7158873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2015.7158873","url":null,"abstract":"A discrete-event system (DES) based model has been recently developed to study secrecy, that is, how an information-flow property of a system can be kept secret from observers. With such a model, a DES is observed partially by observers, and secrecy preservation of a property (on information-flow) is modeled as the impossibility for observers to determine whether executed event sequences belong or not to a given language. This model of secrecy has then been adopted to study secrecy by using a Unifying Decision-Making Framework (UDMF) which has been recently developed; a centralized architecture has been used. In the present paper, we generalize the study with decentralized architectures, and compare our results with those obtained with a centralized architecture.","PeriodicalId":316642,"journal":{"name":"2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125591091","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":"Dynamics of differential entropy maximization process via the Speed Gradient principle","authors":"D. Shalymov, Alexander L. Fradkov","doi":"10.1109/MED.2015.7158787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2015.7158787","url":null,"abstract":"Dynamics of non-stationary processes that follow the MaxEnt principle for differential entropy is considered. A set of equations describing the dynamics of probability density function (pdf) for such processes is proposed. Equations are derived based on the Speed-Gradient principle originated in the control theory. The uniqueness of the limit pdf and asymptotic convergence of pdf are examined under the mass and energy conservation constraints.","PeriodicalId":316642,"journal":{"name":"2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131757338","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":"Performance analysis of PI and PI+CI compensation for an IPDT process","authors":"P. Mercader, M. A. Davó, A. Baños","doi":"10.1109/MED.2015.7158755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2015.7158755","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, it is performed a comparison between the performance of PI and PI+CI compensators, in terms of a balanced index (servo/regulatory) based on the integrated absolute error (IAE). The plant is modelled by an integrating plus dead time (IPDT) process. The purporse of this work is to provide insight into the benefit of reset compensation both in servo and regulatory problems. This is accomplished by providing a tuning rule for the PI+CI, that allows to analyze the performance index in the compensator parameter space. The analysis done is independent of the process parameters.","PeriodicalId":316642,"journal":{"name":"2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128372754","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, automation and control of a two-stage, two-load-demand experimental refrigeration plant","authors":"G. Bejarano, José A. Alfaya, M. Ortega, F. Rubio","doi":"10.1109/MED.2015.7158803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2015.7158803","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design, implementation and automation of a two-stage, two-load-demand experimental refrigeration plant. The facility is fully configurable, since cycles with one or two compression stages, and one or two load demands can be set up. Detailed description of the experimental facility concerning its physical components, actuators and sensors is addressed, as well as low-level control and communication bus issues. The high-level control environment and its communication with the low-level controller are also approached. Furthermore, a well-known in industry decentralised control strategy is applied to a one-stage, two-load-demand refrigeration cycle, analysing some preliminary control results from an energy efficiency point of view.","PeriodicalId":316642,"journal":{"name":"2015 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED)","volume":"05 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129631181","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}