{"title":"Robust and ultrafast decentralized control","authors":"D. Bensoussan, J. Brossard","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107008","url":null,"abstract":"Decentralized control is linked to sensitivity reduction in unity feedback systems [1, 2]. It is proposed in this paper to extend this result to unstable invertible plants in order to also achieve ultrafast and robust control through a new control method. The present result is a multivariable extension of the single-input single-output case [3] which has been recently tested successfully at McGill University [4, 5]. It was shown that it is possible to get a time response with minimal overshoot and with settling time equal to rise time while keeping good stability margins. This design can be extended to a family of multivariable unstable invertible systems that are ultimately (i.e. at high frequency) diagonally dominant, ensuring decentralized control while using local (i.e. diagonal) controllers. Simulation results confirm the ultrafast, robust and decentralized control property.","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":"129373451","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":"Development of a robotic arm suitable for demonstration of advanced control methods","authors":"Daniel Kajzr, L. Beran, V. Zada","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107037","url":null,"abstract":"Our article deals with the development of a robotic arm with “open control system” (for this particular application — with two degrees of freedom and possibility to add). The open control system allows, together with the known parameters of our robotic arm, to use advanced control methods. The robotic arm is controlled by a PLC and automatically generated code via tools — BR Target for Simulink. This tool allows us to convert Simulink models into an automatically generated code in C/C++ and its direct implementation on PLCs. This method of a design allows an easy implementation for sophisticated simulation models and control structures. The article focuses on the preparation and evaluation of the properties of a robotic arm for implementation possibilities of advanced control methods. At first, we found the physical limitations of the individual actuators. Then we dealt with the problems of generating the trajectory with respect to the physical limitations of the individual actuators. For the dynamics of the robotic arm spline functions for trajectory generation and performed measurements of lag errors are used. In conclusion, we evaluated the advantages and disadvantages of this method of control and outlined possible applications for which we can apply this kind of control.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"73 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":"127277868","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":"Prediction techniques in control of energy micro-systems based on renewable sources","authors":"C. Vlad, E. Ceanga, M. Barbu, R. Vilanova","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107135","url":null,"abstract":"To implement efficient control solutions for energy micro-systems a key issue is to predict the difference between the power generated by renewable resources and the load determined by local consumers. This paper explores linear, based on AR and ARMA models, and nonlinear solutions, based on neural networks, for predicting the power balance in a micro-grid. The predictions can be used at the top level of the control structure used for these distributed systems. Thus, the paper exemplifies how, even with the use of a very simple control law, this information can lead to an improvement in the overall performance of the distributed system, expressed through the energy bills and the battery lifetime.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"2 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":"129010134","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":"Research on the attitude control of unmanned multi-ducted-fan flying vehicle","authors":"Yue Ma, Wanming Chen, Lu Lin, Yu Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107054","url":null,"abstract":"The unmanned multi-ducted-fan flying vehicle is a kind of novel multi-purpose platform for future transportation. In this paper, flight dynamics model is established based on aerodynamics principles and rigid body dynamics theory. To make the controller of the multi-ducted fan flying vehicle more robust, a double closed loop PID controller is put forward with non-smooth parameters optimization method. Numerical simulation and field the experimental results demonstrate that the PID controller has good performance on the inner-loop attitude control in forward flight.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"74 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":"123217706","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 computationally efficient solution for path planning of mobile robots with boolean specifications","authors":"Emanuele Vitolo, C. Mahulea, M. Kloetzer","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107012","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a solution with reduced computational complexity for path planning of a team of robots that should satisfy a mission expressed as a Boolean formula. It is assumed that the robots move in a partitioned environment containing some regions of interest. The robots should reach some final regions such that a Boolean formula expressed using the regions of interest is satisfied. Moreover, other Boolean formula should be true during the trajectories. This problem has been studied in [1], where it is shown that the solution based on Petri net models and mathematical programming has a considerable advantage when the number of robots is greater than three or four with respect to the transition system solution. Here we propose to further reduce the complexity, even if the obtained solution will not be anymore optimal with respect to the total number of transition firings. The solution is based also on Petri net models and mathematical programming, but a new abstraction method allows us to reduce the number of variables and constraints of the mathematical programs used to compute the trajectories.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"95 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":"122552287","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}
Artun Sel, Uygar Güneş, Övünç Elbir, C. Kasnakoğlu
{"title":"Comparative analysis of performance of the SEPIC converter using LQR and PID controllers","authors":"Artun Sel, Uygar Güneş, Övünç Elbir, C. Kasnakoğlu","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107141","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to design a LQR controller for the SEPIC (Single-Ended Primary-Inductor Converter) converter which is widely employed in industrial DC-DC power conversion and is also starting to see widespread use in PV applications. Circuit-Averaging-Method is used to acquire the mathematical model of the given system. Controllers are designed based on the Small-Signal model. LQR and PID controllers are used to control SEPIC and their performances are analyzed. A Kalman Filter is used as an observer to acquire the system states which are necessary in LQR control. The performances of the system with given controllers are analyzed with simulations in MATLAB/SIMULINK. It is seen that the LQR approach outperforms PID in terms of various criteria.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"160 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":"121653578","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 improving efficiency of DisCSP methods","authors":"C. Pascal, D. Panescu","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107015","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method of improving the efficiency of DisCSP algorithms. It is based on a new approach in nogood discovering and learning. The proposed technique is based on hyper-resolution and it involves a specific way of generating more powerful nogoods and reducing their number. Moreover, the possibility of storing and re-using nogoods from one instance of a problem to another is taken into account. A brief presentation of the used simulation tool is included and the method is tested on a manufacturing scheduling problem.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"6 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":"131271823","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":"Multiple predictive control of an anaerobic digestion process of microalgae","authors":"F. Stîngă, E. Petre, M. Marian","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107064","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a multiple predictive control strategy in order to control a combination of substrate concentrations inside of an anaerobic digestion process of microalgae. Based on the linear approximation of the original nonlinear model, an optimal control algorithm was developed and tested by simulation experiments. The obtained results validate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"35 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":"127767055","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}
A. Filipescu, D. Cernega, A. Filipescu, R. Șolea, E. Minca
{"title":"SHPN models based simulation and control of mobile robotic systems integrated into A/DML","authors":"A. Filipescu, D. Cernega, A. Filipescu, R. Șolea, E. Minca","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107039","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose of this paper is to model, simulate and control wheeled mobile robotic systems integrated into an assembly mechatronics line for making it reversible, i.e. have the capacity to deal disassembly using mobile platforms equipped with a manipulator. For this purpose, synchronised hybrid Petri nets (SHPN) models will be used to simulate and control an assembly/disassembly (A/D) mechatronics line (A/DML), with a fixed number of workstations. Two cases are presented: to the first one, A/DML is served by a wheeled mobile robots (WMR) equipped with robotic manipulator (RM). To the second case, A/DML is served by two WMRs, collaborative or parallel working. The SHPN models are hybrid type, where A/DML is the discrete part, and WMRs are the continuous part. Moreover, the model operates in synchronised mode with signals from sensors. Disassembly starts after the assembly process and if the assembled piece fails the quality test, to recover disassembled parts. The WMRs are used only during disassembly, to transport parts from the disassembling locations to the storage locations.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"35 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":"133314334","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}
Gia Thuan Lam, Viet Anh Ho, D. Logofătu, C. Bǎdicǎ
{"title":"Considerations on using genetic algorithms for the 2D bin packing problem: A general model and detected difficulties","authors":"Gia Thuan Lam, Viet Anh Ho, D. Logofătu, C. Bǎdicǎ","doi":"10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTCC.2017.8107051","url":null,"abstract":"The 2-dimensional bin packing problem appears in various fields across many industries such as wood, glass, or paper industries. They may differ in terms of specific constraints with respects to each area but they all share a common objective that is to maximize the material utilization. Belonging to the class of NP-Hard problems, there exist no efficient method to solve it, but only approximate solution by combining a greedy placement strategy with some optimization techniques such as Genetic Algorithms. That combination approach is very popular in this topic, but few researchers have clearly presented their method and no one has explained the difficulty of applying Genetic Algorithms to this problem, making it difficult for new researchers to reimplement the known algorithms. In this paper, in addition to proposing a general framework for applying Genetic Algorithms to solving this problem, we also identify the main difficulties of using this approach and propose 2 genetic operators, path recombination and hill-climbing mutation, to support our genetic model.","PeriodicalId":374572,"journal":{"name":"2017 21st International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC)","volume":"30 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":"134089924","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}