T. Borangiu, S. Răileanu, E. Oltean, A. Silisteanu, Iulia Iacob
{"title":"Service-oriented, holonic environment control of radiopharmaceutical production facilities","authors":"T. Borangiu, S. Răileanu, E. Oltean, A. Silisteanu, Iulia Iacob","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107011","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a new holonic solution for the design of generic Facility Environment Conditioning and Control Systems (HFES) based on modelling processes as environment services (EServices) and implementation in multi-agent framework. This approach allows for the customization of: data acquisition, correlation between cleanroom parameters, HVAC channel control and influencing the radiopharmaceuticals production, depending on: (1) facility layout, 2) cleanroom models, 3) relative constraints between parameters of adjacent workspaces, 4) heat and ventilation HVAC channel process models, 5) desired performance indicators of the facility's global control system: basic (stability, precision); for safety and agility (robustness, sensitivity, nervousness, high availability), and 6) control strategies and laws of compensators. The control solution and implementing framework use distributed intelligence delegated to the decentralized control layer of service-oriented agents acting as informational instances of holons, apply web service principles for the cooperation between holons, with the scope of total integration of facility environment processes.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130806843","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":"Linear weighting method and calibration technique with application for temperature estimation in inter weather stations regions","authors":"I. Petrila, Ciprian Chiriac, V. Manta","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107115","url":null,"abstract":"A new linear weighting method and a calibration technique tested comparatively to the proposed linear method and to inverse distance weighting method are analyzed. The proposed methods are tested for temperature estimation in inter weather stations regions, with cumulative minimum deviations from the real values. The analysis reveals that for some weather stations configurations, with certain statistical characteristics, the linear method is more efficient than the optimal parameterized inverse distance weighting method. The methods can be also used in the estimation of other spatially distributed parameters.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130956659","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":"Discrete time switching reaching law design for an arbitrary order sliding variable","authors":"P. Leśniewski","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107007","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the reaching law approach to designing sliding mode controllers is used. In particular, the case of switching variable of relative degree r > 1 is considered. It is demonstrated, that the use of such a variable allows more freedom in designing the controller and can result in reducing the maximum absolute value of the control signal without compromising the robustness with respect to external disturbances.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132846339","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":"Position control of crane vessel during offshore installations: Using adaptive and robust control methods","authors":"Jun Ye, M. Godjevac, Ehab el Amam","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107005","url":null,"abstract":"Heavy lift crane vessels play an important role in offshore installations. Previous studies have shown that position control systems for these vessels can cause unstable positioning behavior during offshore construction assignments under specific conditions, e.g., change of environmental loads. Some control methods, such as crane force feedforward to the controller or the estimator, have been developed to improve the stability of the position control systems. However, these methods depend on the accurate estimation of the crane force and fast reaction of thrusters, which are difficult to obtain under working conditions. To make the positioning system stable, and compensate the controller for the changing crane stiffness and the systems onboard, two methods will be provided. One is to increase the flexibility of the system, while the other one is to increase the robustness. Two control methods, adaptive PID and H-infinity, are adopted and the results are compared. During simulations, the two controllers can dispose of crane modeling error and time delay of thrusters. Adaptive PID has a smaller variance under higher wind and wave load, while H-infinity controller has a larger clearance with the platform.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133075533","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":"Cruise and headway control for vehicle platooning using a distributed model predictive control algorithm","authors":"A. Maxim, C. Caruntu, C. Lazar","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107025","url":null,"abstract":"A cruise and headway control strategy using distributed model predictive control, developed for a vehicle platooning application is proposed in this paper. The cruise control (i.e. driving the vehicle with a constant velocity demanded by the driver) is designed for the platoon's leading vehicle, whereas for the rest of the platoon, a headway control strategy is developed. Thus, the control objective for the follower vehicles is to maintain a specified distance with respect to the vehicle immediately in front. Each vehicle is controlled through a distributed model predictive control strategy with input constraints. Moreover, terminal constraints which ensure the string stability of the platoon are enforced on the follower vehicles. The simulation results show the feasibility of the control strategy.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133549132","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}
F. Ungureanu, R. Lupu, Adrian Cadar, Adrian Prodan
{"title":"Neuromarketing and visual attention study using eye tracking techniques","authors":"F. Ungureanu, R. Lupu, Adrian Cadar, Adrian Prodan","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107093","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study of human behavior related to different marketing stimuli based on pupillometry data. The consumer's gaze points on products of interest are acquired with a remote eye tracker and the obtained heatmaps and timestamps are used for further analysis. An application for recording user's visual attention on web pages and advertising slides is implemented. A sensor for electrodermal activity is also used in order to have an additional response regarding consumer arousal. The results reveal that the human emotions and visual attention are highly correlated with practical marketing applications.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133409030","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":"Experimental fault tolerant control of a ball-on-plate system","authors":"A. Kodakkadan, Sorin Olaru, V. Reppa","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107097","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the experimental results of implementing a fault tolerant control (FTC) in a classical ball-on-plate control framework. The work builds on the fact that a robust nominal controller is found to be insufficient in accommodating a sensor fault generated by the presence of a second ball. Invariant sets are used to monitor and detect occurrence of faults in the system and a switching control strategy is implemented for accommodating the faults. With the proposed FTC implemented, experimental results confirm the fault tolerance guarantees.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133633566","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":"Generalization of a flow-invariance criterion","authors":"O. Pastravanu, M. Matcovschi, M. Voicu","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107132","url":null,"abstract":"The paper provides new results for testing the flow-invariance of time-dependent sets with arbitrary shapes, with respect to trajectories of continuous-time nonlinear systems. The approach represents a generalization of a criterion used in the qualitative analysis of ordinary differential equations with solutions in closed sets with hyper-rectangular form. Given a nonlinear dynamical system for investigation, our generalization consists in the use of an auxiliary system with pseudo-linear form, whose trajectories play a comparison role for the trajectories of the investigated system. The various shapes of the invariant set candidates can be defined in terms of Hölder p-norms of some smooth time-dependent vector functions. The non-symmetrical and symmetrical invariant sets are addressed separately, since the construction of the auxiliary systems requires different properties for their trajectories. The developments we propose are able to include, as particular cases, several earlier studies on flow-invariance, which were separately reported in literature for different classes of dynamics.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"384 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115989651","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}
Tobias Sehueht, Felix Huttner, Robert Schmid, L. Ntogramatzidis
{"title":"NOUS 2.0: A MATLAB® toolbox for the design of globally monotonie tracking controllers","authors":"Tobias Sehueht, Felix Huttner, Robert Schmid, L. Ntogramatzidis","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107123","url":null,"abstract":"Recently Ntogramatzidis et al [1] gave a design method for a linear time-invariant state feedback controller to monotonically track a constant step reference at any desired rate of convergence for any initial condition. In this paper we describe a new public-domain MATLAB® toolbox to implement this control scheme. The toolbox enables interested users to implement the controller design methods of [1] on any linear system that meets the required system assumptions.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"40 20","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120824982","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":"Automatic tuning of hexacopter attitude control systems with experimental validation","authors":"Liuping Wang, P. Poksawat","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107127","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have found many applications in the areas such as remote sensing, surveillance, filming, and other scientific research. Due to the fact that multirotor UAVs are unstable systems in nature, feedback control is paramount in ensuring successful flight missions. Hexacopter is a type of UAV that is capable of carrying heavier payload with increased stability while being less vulnerable to engine failures in comparison to quadcopters. This paper presents a novel approach to automatically tune hexacopter's PID controllers. An experimental test apparatus is designed to allow a hexacopter to be under relay feedback control, so that the input and output data can be safely collected for the estimation of its dynamics, followed by the PID controller design. A comparison study between the proposed method and Ziegler-Nichols is performed. Experimental results are obtained from a flight test in an outdoor environment against external disturbances to show the flight performance of the automatically tuned hexacopter.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129471485","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}