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Full-Text Articles in Controls and Control Theory
Design And Control Of A Peristaltic Pump To Simulate Left Atrial Pressure In A Conductive Silicone Model, Jeremy Collins
Design And Control Of A Peristaltic Pump To Simulate Left Atrial Pressure In A Conductive Silicone Model, Jeremy Collins
Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
According to the CDC, atrial fibrillation is responsible for more than 454,000 hospitalizations and approximately 158,000 deaths per year. A common treatment for atrial fibrillation is catheter ablation, a process in which a long flexible tube is guided through the femoral artery and to the source of arrhythmia in the heart, where it measures the electrical potential at various locations and converts problematic heart tissue to scar tissue via ablation. This paper details the design and control of a low-cost ($400) peristaltic pump system using repetitive control to replicate blood pressure in the left atrium in a conductive silicone model …
Robust Control Of Burst Suppression Amid Physical And Neurological Uncertainty, Stephen Ampleman, Shinung Ching
Robust Control Of Burst Suppression Amid Physical And Neurological Uncertainty, Stephen Ampleman, Shinung Ching
McKelvey School of Engineering Theses & Dissertations
Burst suppression is a clinical term describing a phenomenon in which the electroencephalogram (EEG) of a sedated patient produces behavior that switches between higher frequency and amplitude bursting to lower frequency and lower amplitude suppression. This phenomenon can be observed during general anesthesia, hypothermia, or in an otherwise induced coma state. In a clinical setting, this phenomenon is typically induced by sedation from a drug such as propofol (2,6-diisopropylphenol). The level of sedation can be quantified by something called the burst suppression ratio (BSR), which is defined as the amount of time that a patient’s EEG is in a suppressed …
Enhancing Waste Management Through Automatic Control, Aidan O'Dwyer
Enhancing Waste Management Through Automatic Control, Aidan O'Dwyer
Conference papers
Meeting environmental requirements is recognised as one of the six 21st century business drivers for automatic control. The proportional integral (PI) and proportional integral derivative (PID) controllers are the most dominant form of automatic controllers in industrial use today. With these techniques, it is necessary to adjust the controller parameters according to the nature of the process. Thus, for effective control of a heating, cooling and air-conditioning (HVAC) application, for example, specific values need to be chosen for the P, I and D parameters, which will be different for the values required to control, for example, a distillation column. This …
An Approach To Teaching Pid Controller Tuning, Aidan O'Dwyer
An Approach To Teaching Pid Controller Tuning, Aidan O'Dwyer
Conference papers
This paper discusses an approach to the teaching of PID controller tuning methods to students in control engineering at Dublin Institute of Technology. The method involves analytically calculating the gain margin, phase margin and maximum sensitivity for PI and PID controlled systems whose process is modelled in first order lag plus time delay (FOLPD) form. Students can examine the performance of many tuning rules from graphical results, allowing insight to be developed as to the most rational choice of the tuning rule for the application. Some preliminary work done to develop an expert system to allow a greater automation of …
Pid Controller Tuning Of Networked Computer Based Control Systems, Aidan O'Dwyer
Pid Controller Tuning Of Networked Computer Based Control Systems, Aidan O'Dwyer
Conference papers
This contribution discusses the use of PID controller tuning rules to assist in the implementation of network computer based control systems. Such systems typically have a variable time delay associated with the transfer of information. PID controller tuning rules can be directly implemented with minimal capital investment.
Pid Control: The Early Years, Aidan O'Dwyer
Pid Control: The Early Years, Aidan O'Dwyer
Conference papers
This contribution outlines controller developments 1788 – c.1900; 1900-1950: The role of instrument companies; early theoretical description of the PID controller; early tuning of the PID controller; some further developments since 1950; some conclusions.
Tuning Rules For Pi And Pid Control Of Time Delayed Processes: Some Recent Developments, Aidan O'Dwyer
Tuning Rules For Pi And Pid Control Of Time Delayed Processes: Some Recent Developments, Aidan O'Dwyer
Conference papers
The ability of PI and PID controllers to compensate many practical processes has led to their wide acceptance in industrial applications. The requirement to choose two or three controller parameters is most easily done using tuning rules. Starting with a general discussion of industrial practice, the paper will discuss, in particular, recent work in tuning rule development for processes with time delay.
Enhancing Process Performance Through Automatic Control, Aidan O'Dwyer
Enhancing Process Performance Through Automatic Control, Aidan O'Dwyer
Conference papers
The proportional integral derivative (PID) controller is the most dominant form of automatic controller in industrial use today. With this technique, it is necessary to adjust the controller parameters according to the nature of the process. Thus, for effective control of a pasteurisation process, for example, specific values need to be chosen for the P, I and D parameters, which will be different for the values required to control, for example, a distillation column. This tailoring of controller to process is known as controller tuning.
Pid Compensation Of Time Delayed Processes 1998-2002: A Survey, Aidan O'Dwyer
Pid Compensation Of Time Delayed Processes 1998-2002: A Survey, Aidan O'Dwyer
Conference papers
A time delay may be defined as the time interval between the start of an event at one point in a system and its resulting action at another point in the system. Delays are also known as transport lags or dead times; they arise in physical, chemical, biological and economic systems, as well as in the process of measurement and computation. Methods for the compensation of time delayed processes may be broadly divided into proportional integral derivative (PID) based controllers, in which the controller parameters are adapted to the controller structure, and structurally optimised controllers, in which the controller structure …
Pi And Pid Controller Tuning Rule Design For Processes With Delay, To Achieve Constant Gain And Phase Margins For All Values Of Delay, Aidan O'Dwyer
Pi And Pid Controller Tuning Rule Design For Processes With Delay, To Achieve Constant Gain And Phase Margins For All Values Of Delay, Aidan O'Dwyer
Conference papers
This paper will discuss the design of PI and PID controller tuning rules to compensate processes with delay, that are modelled in a number of ways. The rules allow the achievement of constant gain and phase margins as the delay varies.
On-Line Free Form Surface Measurement Via A Fuzzy-Logic Controlled Scanning Probe, Ming Chang, Paul P. Lin
On-Line Free Form Surface Measurement Via A Fuzzy-Logic Controlled Scanning Probe, Ming Chang, Paul P. Lin
Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications
This paper presents a system and methodology for on-line free form surface measurement via a scanning contact probe installed on a CNC (computer numerical control) machine. The scanning probe provides more sampling points than any traditional touch trigger type of probes used on CNC machines, and better measuring accuracy than laser displacement sensing or structured lighting. The presented measuring system's main advantage is that the number of measured points can vary with the change of surface curvature. To improve the measuring stability and continuity, fuzzy logic control, in lieu of traditional PID control, is employed. As a result, the …
A Frequency Domain Based Self-Tuning Pid Controller, John Ringwood, Aidan O'Dwyer
A Frequency Domain Based Self-Tuning Pid Controller, John Ringwood, Aidan O'Dwyer
Conference papers
Traditionally, both explicit and implicit self-tuning controllers have employed time domain techniques for the identification and tracking of plant and controller parameters. The use of the frequency domain provides concise information on the dynamics of the process which has led to its wide acceptance as a domain for controller design. This paper demonstrates a method employing recursive, on-line measurement of the process frequency response, with a straightforward calculation of PID controller parameters. The computational effort involved is comparable with that of a time domain technique.