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Full-Text Articles in Controls and Control Theory
Magneto-Rheological Actuators For Human-Safe Robots: Modeling, Control, And Implementation, Peyman Yadmellat
Magneto-Rheological Actuators For Human-Safe Robots: Modeling, Control, And Implementation, Peyman Yadmellat
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
In recent years, research on physical human-robot interaction has received considerable attention. Research on this subject has led to the study of new control and actuation mechanisms for robots in order to achieve intrinsic safety. Naturally, intrinsic safety is only achievable in kinematic structures that exhibit low output impedance. Existing solutions for reducing impedance are commonly obtained at the expense of reduced performance, or significant increase in mechanical complexity. Achieving high performance while guaranteeing safety seems to be a challenging goal that necessitates new actuation technologies in future generations of human-safe robots.
In this study, a novel two degrees-of-freedom safe …
On Sensorless Collision Detection And Measurement Of External Forces In Presence Of Modeling Inaccuracies, Vahid Sotoudehnejad
On Sensorless Collision Detection And Measurement Of External Forces In Presence Of Modeling Inaccuracies, Vahid Sotoudehnejad
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
The field of human-robot interaction has garnered significant interest in the last decade. Every form of human-robot coexistence must guarantee the safety of the user. Safety in human-robot interaction is being vigorously studied, in areas such as collision avoidance, soft actuators, light-weight robots, computer vision techniques, soft tissue modeling, collision detection, etc. Despite the safety provisions, unwanted collisions can occur in case of system faults. In such cases, before post-collision strategies are triggered, it is imperative to effectively detect the collisions. Implementation of tactile sensors, vision systems, sonar and Lidar sensors, etc., allows for detection of collisions. However, due to …
Robust And Adaptive Attitude Control Of Spacecraft Using Solar Radiation Pressure, Lakshmi Srinivasan
Robust And Adaptive Attitude Control Of Spacecraft Using Solar Radiation Pressure, Lakshmi Srinivasan
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Satellites in orbit are expected to maintain a preset attitude either pointing towards Earth (in case of satellites for weather) or pointing towards space for the purpose of research and exploration. The satellite as a system though is extremely nonlinear and the system parameters are not easily available. The goal of this thesis is to develop robust and adaptive control laws that can be used to control the attitude of satellites in elliptic orbits. The attitude of the satellite is controlled by the use of Solar Radiation Pressure (SRP) on the solar panels of the satellite. The SRP is basically …
A Hybrid Visual Control Scheme To Assist The Visually Impaired With Guided Reaching Tasks, Duane Jacques
A Hybrid Visual Control Scheme To Assist The Visually Impaired With Guided Reaching Tasks, Duane Jacques
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
In recent years, numerous researchers have been working towards adapting technology developed for robotic control to use in the creation of high-technology assistive devices for the visually impaired. These types of devices have been proven to help visually impaired people live with a greater degree of confidence and independence. However, most prior work has focused primarily on a single problem from mobile robotics, namely navigation in an unknown environment. In this work we address the issue of the design and performance of an assistive device application to aid the visually-impaired with a guided reaching task. The device follows an eye-in-hand, …
The Design Of The Chargersat-1 Rtos, Mason Manning
The Design Of The Chargersat-1 Rtos, Mason Manning
Von Braun Symposium Student Posters
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Understanding Vehicular Traffic Behavior From Video: A Survey Of Unsupervised Approaches, Brendan Tran Morris, Mohan Manubhai Trivedi
Understanding Vehicular Traffic Behavior From Video: A Survey Of Unsupervised Approaches, Brendan Tran Morris, Mohan Manubhai Trivedi
Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Research
Recent emerging trends for automatic behavior analysis and understanding from infrastructure video are reviewed. Research has shifted from high-resolution estimation of vehicle state and instead, pushed machine learning approaches to extract meaningful patterns in aggregates in an unsupervised fashion. These patterns represent priors on observable motion, which can be utilized to describe a scene, answer behavior questions such as where is a vehicle going, how many vehicles are performing the same action, and to detect an abnormal event. The review focuses on two main methods for scene description, trajectory clustering and topic modeling. Example applications that utilize the behavioral modeling …
Over Look To Genetic Algorithm, Ata Jahangir Moshayedi
Over Look To Genetic Algorithm, Ata Jahangir Moshayedi
Ata Jahangir Moshayedi
Over look to Genetic algorithm
Control Studies Of Dfig Based Wind Power Systems, Zhiqiang Jin
Control Studies Of Dfig Based Wind Power Systems, Zhiqiang Jin
Doctoral Dissertations
Wind energy as an outstanding and competitive form of renewable energy, has been growing fast worldwide in recent years because of its importance to reduce the pollutant emission generated by conventional thermal power plants and the rising prices and the unstable supplies of fossil-fuel. However, in the development of wind energy, there are still many ongoing challenges.
An important challenge is the need of voltage control to maintain the terminal voltage of a wind plant to make it a PV bus like conventional generators with excitation control. In the literature with PI controllers used, the parameters of PI controllers need …
Feedback Stabilization At Spear3, Daniel Kelley, Jeff Corbett
Feedback Stabilization At Spear3, Daniel Kelley, Jeff Corbett
STAR Program Research Presentations
The SPEAR3 synchrotron lightsource at SLAC relies on a sophisticated radio frequency (RF) timing system to maintain current – electrons – in the storage ring. One problem SPEAR3 operators have dealt with is the thermal expansion of one of the cables supporting this RF timing system. As the cable expands and contracts with the diurnal rise and fall of the sun, the phase of the RF in the cable shifts. This shifting phase affects the timing accuracy of electron injections into the storage ring.
A common feedback control algorithm PID (Proportional Integral Derivative) has countless applications in engineering. PID feedback …
Study Of Stability Analysis Of A Grid-Connected Doubly Fed Induction Generator (Dfig)-Based Small Wind Farm, Baishakhi Dhar
Study Of Stability Analysis Of A Grid-Connected Doubly Fed Induction Generator (Dfig)-Based Small Wind Farm, Baishakhi Dhar
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Wind is the most reliable, clean and fast-developing renewable energy source. The DFIG-based variable speed wind turbine system is now the most popular in wind power industry. With power being so in-demanding, a large wind farm needs to be developed to produce more power from a stable system. But before such a large wind farm is installed, better understanding is needed of the system’s intrinsic dynamic behavior, range of stability region and parametric effects on system stability. Hence, a small wind farm with two identical DFIG-based wind turbines connected to a grid network has been considered for this study.
A …
Development Of A Novel Handheld Device For Active Compensation Of Physiological Tremor, Abhijit Saxena
Development Of A Novel Handheld Device For Active Compensation Of Physiological Tremor, Abhijit Saxena
Abhijit Saxena
In microsurgery, the human hand imposes certain limitations in accurately positioning the tip of a device such as scalpel. Any errors in the motion of the hand make microsurgical procedures difficult and involuntary motions such as hand tremors can make some procedures significantly difficult to perform. This is particularly true in the case of vitreoretinal microsurgery. The most familiar source of involuntary motion is physiological tremor. Real-time compensation of tremor is, therefore, necessary to assist surgeons to precisely position and manipulate the tool-tip to accurately perform a microsurgery. In this thesis, a novel handheld device (AID) is described for compensation …
Three-Phase Reduced Switch Topologies For Ac-Dc Front-End And Single-Stage Converters, Dunisha Wijeratne
Three-Phase Reduced Switch Topologies For Ac-Dc Front-End And Single-Stage Converters, Dunisha Wijeratne
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Conventional three-phase ac-dc converters have two converter stages. They have a front-end converter that converts the input ac voltage into an intermediate dc bus voltage and a second, back-end converter that converts this dc bus voltage into the desired isolated dc output voltage. The front-end converter also performs power factor correction (PFC) and shapes the three-phase input currents so that they are nearly sinusoidal and in phase with the three-phase input voltages. This allows the ac power source to be used in the most efficient manner.
The front-end ac-dc converter is typically implemented with six switches while the back-end dc-dc …
Voltge & Reactive Power Control In Oman Transmission System, Omar H. Abdalla, Rashid Al-Badwawi, Hilal Al-Hadi, Hisham Al-Riyami, Ahmed Al-Nadabi, Karim Karoui, Ariadne Szekut
Voltge & Reactive Power Control In Oman Transmission System, Omar H. Abdalla, Rashid Al-Badwawi, Hilal Al-Hadi, Hisham Al-Riyami, Ahmed Al-Nadabi, Karim Karoui, Ariadne Szekut
Omar H. Abdalla
The paper presents voltage and reactive power control in the Main Interconnected Transmission System (MITS) in the Sultanate of Oman. The objective is to improve voltage profile at substations supplying distribution companies and directly connected bulk customer. An objective function is used to maximize reactive power margin of generating units to maintain as much as possible reserves on different generators. The control parameters include existing voltage and reactive power control means, e.g. settings of generators’ excitation/AVR, transformer tap-changing, and capacitor bank switching. The constraints include operational limits of the above control devices in addition to allowable limits of busbar voltages, …
Design Of An Energy Efficient Virtual End Node Client Using Openadr2.0a And Smap, Kevin Navero
Design Of An Energy Efficient Virtual End Node Client Using Openadr2.0a And Smap, Kevin Navero
BioResource and Agricultural Engineering
Demand Response (DR) describes the set of actions taken to impose a reduction in electrical loads to stabilize the power grid and decrease costs. It is used when power grid emergencies or extremely high demand and congestion, threaten the electricity supply-demand balance. Automated Demand Response (ADR) describes a web-based control system that triggers DR events automatically by signaling other pre-programmed control systems. This project intends to use the OpenADR2.0 specifications provided by the OpenADR Alliance to construct an open source Virtual End Node (VEN) client to retrieve DR signals. The Simple Measurement and Actuation Profile (sMAP) software is also used …
Control System Infrastructure For The Cal Poly Human Powered Helicopter: Upturn Ii, Douglas A. Thornber, Samuel J. Wahyou
Control System Infrastructure For The Cal Poly Human Powered Helicopter: Upturn Ii, Douglas A. Thornber, Samuel J. Wahyou
Aerospace Engineering
The Upturn was donated to Cal Poly in October 2012 by Neal Saiki from NTS. Our project was to replicate the old system to decrease the turn-around time in case of a crash during a test flight. The control system for the Upturn II was designed with the same considerations that were used for the Upturn. The result we got was inconclusive for the sensor selection, the new control system is heavier than the old system, and we couldn’t validate the system without doing a flight test. For the next iteration if some of the replication requirements are relaxed the …
Low-Cost Imu Implementation Via Sensor Fusion Algorithms In The Arduino Environment, Brandon Mccarron
Low-Cost Imu Implementation Via Sensor Fusion Algorithms In The Arduino Environment, Brandon Mccarron
Aerospace Engineering
A multi-phase experiment was conducted at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, CA, to design a low-cost inertial measurement unit composed of a 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope. Utilizing the growing microprocessor software environment, a 3-axis accelerometer and 3-axis gyroscope simulated 6 degrees of freedom orientation sensing through sensor fusion. By analyzing a simple complimentary filter and a more complex Kalman filter, the outputs of each sensor were combined and took advantage of the benefits of both sensors to improved results. Gyroscopic drift was removed in the pitch and roll axes using the Kalman filter for both static and dynamic …
Meat Smoker, Rhianna Topp
Meat Smoker, Rhianna Topp
Electrical Engineering
This Senior Project consists of designing and building a meat smoker. The design of this meat smoker incorporates knowledge of control systems, programming, hardware, and materials manufacturing. This smoker is made to allow the user an easy experience of smoking food. The smoker provides the user with a programmable temperature and timer. It also has an automatic wood chip loader as deemed necessary to keep the correct amount of smoke distributed. Lastly, this smoker has an automatic application of the user’s choice of liquid to the meat. By designing a smoker with these capabilities, an untrained person desiring to smoke …
Adaptive Control Of Apache Web Server, Erik Reed, Abe Ishihara, Ole J. Mengshoel
Adaptive Control Of Apache Web Server, Erik Reed, Abe Ishihara, Ole J. Mengshoel
Ole J Mengshoel
Control Law Calculation And Verification Methods For The Variable Stability Navion In-Flight Simulation Aircraft, Joe Ming Yin Siu
Control Law Calculation And Verification Methods For The Variable Stability Navion In-Flight Simulation Aircraft, Joe Ming Yin Siu
Masters Theses
The University of Tennessee Space Institute’s (UTSI) variable stability research aircraft, Ryan Navion N66UT, was extensively modified by the Princeton University in the 1960’s. When UTSI acquired the aircraft from Princeton, volumes of calibration data, charts, and schematics manuals were transferred to UTSI.
Based on the study and research of available Princeton documents, methods of calculating flight control laws were “reverse-engineered”. The Variable Stability Navion employs an implicit model following structure to achieve in-flight simulation of other aircraft’s flying quality. Mathematical formulas were derived to calculate stability derivative potentiometer settings, for the analog response feedback flight controls system. MATLAB scripts …
Voltage Stability Analysis Using Simulated Synchrophasor Measurements, Allan Agatep
Voltage Stability Analysis Using Simulated Synchrophasor Measurements, Allan Agatep
Master's Theses
An increase in demand for electric power has forced utility transmission systems to continuously operate under stressed conditions, which are close to instability limits. Operating power systems under such conditions along with inadequate reactive power reserves initiates a sequence of voltage instability points and can ultimately lead to a system voltage collapse. Significant research have been focused on time-synchronized measurements of power systems which can be used to frequently determine the state of a power system and can lead to a more robust protection, control and operation performance. This thesis discusses the applicability of two voltage stability synchrophasor-based indices from …
Modeling And Analysis Of A Dynamic Voltage Regulator, Timothy David Haskell
Modeling And Analysis Of A Dynamic Voltage Regulator, Timothy David Haskell
Master's Theses
Increased government funding and incentives in recent years has led to an increase in the number of grid-tied renewable energy sources as their economic benefits become more renowned. Unfortunately, the outputs of these renewable resources are often highly variable, resulting in undesirable voltage disruptions that are harmful to sensitive loads. In addition to the energy variability of renewable energy sources, random voltage sags, swells and disruptions are already a major issue in power systems. Recent advances in power electronic devices have provided a platform for new solutions to the voltage support problem in power systems. One promising solution is the …
Wireless Transmission Network : A Imagine, Radhey Shyam Meena Engineer, Neeraj Kumar Garg Asst.Prof
Wireless Transmission Network : A Imagine, Radhey Shyam Meena Engineer, Neeraj Kumar Garg Asst.Prof
Radhey Shyam Meena
World cannot be imagined without electrical power. Generally the power is transmitted through transmission networks. This paper describes an original idea to eradicate the hazardous usage of electrical wires which involve lot of confusion in particularly organizing them. Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronic devices capable of charging themselves without ever being plugged in freeing us from that final ubiquitous power wire. This paper includes the techniques of transmitting power without using wires with an efficiency of about 95% with non-radioactivemethods. In this paper …
Applied Analysis Of Ionic Polymer Metal-Composite Actuators, Siul Ruiz, Benjamin Mead, Woosoon Yim
Applied Analysis Of Ionic Polymer Metal-Composite Actuators, Siul Ruiz, Benjamin Mead, Woosoon Yim
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
- IPMC is a type of smart material called an electroactive polymer
- Consists of an ionic polymer such as Nafion or Flemion and a conducive metal such as platinum or gold
- COMSOL multi-physics simulations accurately model the experimental displacement results
- Optimization performed using the multi-physics model to find the maximum deflection, force, and twisting
- Using the closed loop control system accurate IPMC tip location can be achieved
- This control system has been extended to function using a computer mouse as an input
Effects Of Surface Roughness And Flow Rheology On The Ehl Of Circular Contacts With Power-Law Fluid, Li-Ming Chu, Jaw-Ren Lin, Hsiang-Chen Hsu, Yuh-Ping Chang
Effects Of Surface Roughness And Flow Rheology On The Ehl Of Circular Contacts With Power-Law Fluid, Li-Ming Chu, Jaw-Ren Lin, Hsiang-Chen Hsu, Yuh-Ping Chang
Journal of Marine Science and Technology
The coupled effects of surface roughness and flow rheology on the Elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) circular contact problems are analyzed and discussed. The average flow model is adapted for the interaction of the flow rheology of lubricant and surface roughness. The averaged Reynolds type equation, the rheology equations, the elastic deformation equation, and the force balance equation are solved simultaneously. The multilevel multi-integration (MLMI) algorithm and Gauss-Seidel iteration method are utilized to calculate the film thickness and pressure distributions. The effects of flow index, Peklenik number, and standard deviation of composite surface roughness on the film thickness and pressure distributions are …
Rigid Body Attitude Estimation: An Overview And Comparative Study, Nojan Madinehi
Rigid Body Attitude Estimation: An Overview And Comparative Study, Nojan Madinehi
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
The attitude estimation of rigid body systems has attracted the attention of many researchers over the years. The development of efficient estimation algorithms that can accurately estimate the orientation of a rigid body is a crucial step towards a reliable implementation of control schemes for underwater and flying vehicles.
The primary focus of this thesis consists in investigating various attitude estimation techniques and their applications.
Two major classes are discussed. The first class consists of the earliest static attitude determination techniques relying solely on a set of body vector measurements of known vectors in the inertial frame. The second class …
Firmware Counterfeiting And Modification Attacks On Programmable Logic Controllers, Zachary H. Basnight
Firmware Counterfeiting And Modification Attacks On Programmable Logic Controllers, Zachary H. Basnight
Theses and Dissertations
Recent attacks on industrial control systems (ICSs), like the highly publicized Stuxnet malware, have perpetuated a race to the bottom where lower level attacks have a tactical advantage. Programmable logic controller (PLC) firmware, which provides a software-driven interface between system inputs and physically manifested outputs, is readily open to modification at the user level. Current efforts to protect against firmware attacks are hindered by a lack of prerequisite research regarding details of attack development and implementation. In order to obtain a more complete understanding of the threats posed by PLC firmware counterfeiting and the feasibility of such attacks, this research …
Emulation Of Industrial Control Field Device Protocols, Robert M. Jaromin
Emulation Of Industrial Control Field Device Protocols, Robert M. Jaromin
Theses and Dissertations
It has been shown that thousands of industrial control devices are exposed to the Internet, however, the extent and nature of attacks on such devices remains unknown. The first step to understanding security problems that face modern supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and industrial controls networks is to understand the various attacks launched on Internet-connected field devices. This thesis describes the design and implementation of an industrial control emulator on a Gumstix single-board computer as a solution. This emulator acts as a decoy field device, or honeypot, intended to be probed and attacked via an Internet connection. Evaluation techniques …
Wireless Electrical Power System Network: A Imagine, Engineer Radhey Shyam Meena
Wireless Electrical Power System Network: A Imagine, Engineer Radhey Shyam Meena
Radhey Shyam Meena
Today large number of new technologies depends on electrical supply system, so complexity of wires is very high. In this project, as requirement of wireless electrical power system, project team present an analysis the concept of cable less transmission i.e. Power without the usage of any kind of the electrical conductor or wires. Transmission or distribution of 50 or 60 Hz electrical energy from the generation point to the consumers end without any physical wire has yet to mature as a familiar and viable technology.
Battery Energy Storage System In Solar Power Generation, Radhey Shyam Meena Er., Deepa Sharma
Battery Energy Storage System In Solar Power Generation, Radhey Shyam Meena Er., Deepa Sharma
Radhey Shyam Meena
Grid-connected solar PV dramatically changes the load profile of an electric utility customer. The expected widespread adoption of solar generation by customers on the distribution system poses significant challenges to system operators both in transient and steady state operation, from issues including voltage swings, sudden weather-induced changes in generation, and legacy protective devices designed with one-way power flow in mind
Caddy: A 2005 Roborodentia Entry With Vision And Path Planning Abilities, Taylor Braun-Jones
Caddy: A 2005 Roborodentia Entry With Vision And Path Planning Abilities, Taylor Braun-Jones
Computer Engineering
Roborodentia is an autonomous robotics competition held each year during Cal Poly’s Open House. For the 2005 competition, robot entries needed to navigate a maze searching for three randomly placed golf balls, collect them, and then deposit the balls in the “nest” at the end of the maze. A newly added aspect for the 2005 competition included two bonus balls that were placed on a platform behind the wall in two predetermined corners of the maze.
Caddy is a robot that was entered into the 2005 Roborodentia competition. Caddy included a vision system that allowed searching for balls down untraveled …