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ISA Transactions
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An Optimal Fuzzy Logic Controller for Urban Traffic Networks [Technical]
One of the main difficulties in modern cities is large number of vehicles. Traffic signal control has a crucial role in transport safety & smoothness of traffic flow.By: ISA Transactions10 February, 2020 | 1 minute -
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Embedded Intelligent Adaptive PID Controller for an Electromechanical System [Technical]
It can be difficult to define suitable PID gains when an industrial plant has a high level of complexity, such as, modeling nonlinearities, time delay and structural uncertainties.By: ISA Transactions06 January, 2020 | 1 minute -
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New Method for Estimating State of Charge of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles [Technical]
Research engineers have devised a new method for estimating the charge state of batteries used in electric vehciles using fractional order calculations.By: ISA Transactions16 December, 2019 | 1 minute -
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PID Controller Tracking of Industrial Robotic Manipulators [Technical]
Robotic manipulators in industry perform repetitive tasks in manufacturing processes, and ensure a high production volume along with high quality standards.By: ISA Transactions20 November, 2019 | 1 minutes -
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Process Control Strategies for Wastewater Treatment to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions [Technical]
Control strategies are used in wastewater treatment plants to improve effluent quality, lower operating costs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.By: ISA Transactions14 October, 2019 | 1 minute -
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Improved Process Control Strategy for Crude Oil Fractional Distillation [Technical]
High variability in dynamic characteristics of a crude oil refinery distillation column poses a challenge in manufacturing quality byproducts.By: ISA Transactions09 September, 2019 | 1 minute -
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PID Power System Stabilizer for Damping Low Frequency Oscillations
This paper explores a two-level control strategy by blending a local controller with a centralized controller in a power system.By: ISA Transactions14 August, 2019 | 1 minutes -
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Decentralized Control Strategy vs MPC Industrial Methanol Distillation
The authors developed a novel, robust practical control structure to regulate an industrial methanol distillation column.By: ISA Transactions10 July, 2019 | 1 minutes -
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Fault Detection in the Feed Water Treatment Process for Boiler-Turbine Power Generation [technical]
Process faults may make the quality of feed water below its standard for boiler-turbine power generation, resulting in downtime and loss of production.By: ISA Transactions17 June, 2019 | 1 minutes -
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New Control Approach Increases Efficiency and Safety of Boiler-Turbine Systems [Technical]
A new robust control approach has been developed to improve the coordinated control performance for subcritical boiler-turbine units.By: ISA Transactions27 May, 2019 | 1 minute -
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Proportional Integral Estimator-Based Clock Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks [Technical]
Engineers develop a proportional integral estimator-based protocol to achieve clock synchronization for wireless sensor networks.By: ISA Transactions13 May, 2019 | 1 minute -
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Artificial Intelligence-Based Improved Classification of Two-Phase Flow Patterns [Technical]
Flow pattern recognition is necessary to select design equations for finding operating details of the process and to perform computational simulations.By: ISA Transactions29 April, 2019 | 1 minutes -
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New Method for Tuning PID Controllers Using a Symmetric Send-On-Delta Sampling Strategy [Technical]
Main goal in design of new PID controllers is reduction of the frequency of measurement needed for control without degrading the closed loop performance.By: ISA Transactions17 April, 2019 | 1 minute -
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Development of a Hybrid Controller for Renewable Energy and Automotive Applications [technical]
Research focus on development of a hybrid controller for a two-interleaved boost converter dedicated to renewable energy and automotive applications.By: ISA Transactions25 March, 2019 | 1 minute -
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Effects of Wireless Packet Loss in Industrial Process Control Systems [technical]
Control performance is affected by wireless link quality, which in turn is adversely affected by severe propagation loss in harsh industrial environments, co-channel interference, and unintended interBy: ISA Transactions27 February, 2019 | 2 minutes -
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Fault Detection in the Distillation Column Process [technical]
Chemical plants demand fault detection schemes to ensure high product quality, reliability and safety under different operating conditions.By: ISA Transactions18 February, 2019 | 1 minute -
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KPI-Based Monitoring and Fault Detection for Large-Scale Industrial Processes [technical]
Key performance indicators (KPIs) can be used to analyze large-scale industrial processes to improve operating performance.By: ISA Transactions23 January, 2019 | 1 minute -
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PID Control Using Recurrent Neural Networks for Robotic Manipulators [Technical]
The performance of conventional PID controllers in robotics falls short in applications which are nonlinear and uncertain. Almost all industrial processes are nonlinear and uncertain.By: ISA Transactions09 January, 2019 | 1 minutes -
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How to Suppress Nuisance Alarms in Industrial Plants [technical]
Chattering alarms are the most found nuisance alarms that will probably reduce the usability and result in a confidence crisis of alarm systems for industrial plants.By: ISA Transactions26 December, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Design of a New PID Controller Using Predictive Functional Control Optimization [Technical]
An improved PID controller based on predictive functional control is developed and tested on the chamber pressure in an industrial coke furnace.By: ISA Transactions10 December, 2018 | 1 minute -
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PID-Based Bioreactor Control for Ethanol Production [Technical]
Researchers develop an inferential control scheme based on adaptive linear neural network soft sensor for the control of the fermentation process.By: ISA Transactions14 November, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Load Speed Regulation in Mechanical Transmission Systems Using Feedback and Feedforward Control [technical]
Researchers develop a method for controlling the load speed of a mechanical transmission system using both motor and load speed feedback, and design an adaptive feedforward action to reject load torquBy: ISA Transactions24 October, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Compensation for Cascade Dead Zones in Proportional Control Valves [technical]
The cascade dead zones problem in a typical two-stage proportional directional control valve is analyzed and a cascade dead zones model is developed for the main stage spring constant.By: ISA Transactions08 October, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Using OPC Technology to Study Advanced Process Control [Technical]
Research focus on the use of OPC technology for the study of distributed control systems as a cost effective and flexible research tool for the development and testing of advanced process control technBy: ISA Transactions25 September, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Improving the Performance of a Model Predictive Controller for Regulatory Control [Technical]
Automation engineers investigate several commonly used control structures such as “Cascaded PI controller,” “DMC cascaded to PI” and “Direct DMC.”By: ISA Transactions19 September, 2018 | 1 minutes -
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PID Controller Design for Indirect Vector-Controlled Induction Motor [Technical]
Decoupling of the stator currents is important for smoother torque response of indirect vector controlled induction motors.By: ISA Transactions27 August, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Closed-Loop Step Response for Tuning PID Fractional Order Filters [technical]
Research presents an empirical method for tuning a new type of fractional controller known as PID Fractional-Order FilterBy: ISA Transactions13 August, 2018 | 1 minutes -
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Tuning PID Controllers for Integrating Systems Using a Direct Synthesis Method [Technical]
Research presents a new design for a PID controller with a lead lag filter using multiple dominant pole placement method.By: ISA Transactions23 July, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Adaptive PI Controller for Voltage Regulation in Power Systems [technical]
A static synchronous compensator is a shunt flexible alternative current transmission systems device that takes advantage of power electronics to control the flow of power to enhance transient stabilitBy: ISA Transactions04 July, 2018 | 1 minutes -
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Neural Network-Based Actuator Fault Diagnosis for a Non-Linear Multi-Tank System [Technical]
Appropriate actuator fault estimation allows for the application of various fault tolerant control strategies enabling compensation of the faulty actuator by increasing performance of the other actuatBy: ISA Transactions25 June, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Self-Powered Wireless High Temperature Electrochemical Sensors [Technical]
Reliable wireless high temperature electrochemical sensor technology is needed to provide in situ corrosion information for optimal predictive maintenance to ensure a high level of operational effectiBy: ISA Transactions30 May, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Using OPC Technology to Support the Study of Advanced Process Control [Technical]
A nonlinear boiler model is simulated as OPC server and OPC client is used for closed loop model identification, and to design a model predictive controller (MPC). The MPC is able to control the NOx eBy: ISA Transactions07 May, 2018 | 1 minute -
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How to Detect Defects in Rolling Element Bearings Used in Manufacturing Processes [Technical]
Rolling element bearings are common components in rotating machinery. Defects in bearings during manufacturing can cause vibration, noise, and even system failure. Defects in bearings must be found atBy: ISA Transactions25 April, 2018 | 1 minutes -
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Tuning Strategies and the Fragility of Fractional-Order PID Controllers [Technical]
A properly designed control system must provide an effective trade-off between performance and robustness. One of the main reasons to investigate the fragility of fractional-orde PID controllers is toBy: ISA Transactions09 April, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Low Cost Test Rig for a Standalone Wind Energy Conversion System [technical]
Wavelet decomposition enables differentiation between faulty & healthy conditions for effective diagnostic procedure for wind turbine condition monitoring.By: ISA Transactions28 March, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Nonlinear Predictive Control of a Boiler-Turbine Unit [Technical]
A boiler-turbine unit in coal-fired power plants is used to convert fuel chemical energy into mechanical energy & then into electrical energy.By: ISA Transactions12 March, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Tuning the Model Predictive Control of a Crude Distillation Unit [Technical]
Petrochemical and oil processing industries usually take advantage of advanced control platforms to improve the product quality and yield.By: ISA Transactions21 February, 2018 | 1 minutes -
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Plant-Wide Control Design Based on Steady-State Combined Indexes [Technical]
An alternative methodology for designing multi-loop control structures based on steady-state indexes & multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems.By: ISA Transactions05 February, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Measuring Fuel Oil Viscosity in a Power Plant [technical]
The viscosity measurement and control of fuel oil in power plants is very important for a proper combustion.By: ISA Transactions22 January, 2018 | 1 minute -
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Tuning of IMC-Based PID Controllers for Integrating Systems with Time Delay [Technical]
PID controller with a filter is designed for various types of integrating systems with time delay.By: ISA Transactions17 January, 2018 | 1 minutes -
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Auto-Tuning Method for Fractional Order PID Controllers [technical]
Technical paper proposes a novel approach for the auto-tuning of fractional order controllers.By: ISA Transactions25 December, 2017 | 1 minutes -
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How to Reduce Diesel Engine Pollution Through a High-Pressure Common Rail Injection System [technical]
To improve the diesel engine performance, a high-pressure rail injection system has been shown to pay a vital role in reducing diesel pollution.By: ISA Transactions11 December, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Fractional Order PID Controller for Quadruple Tank Process [technical]
A new type of self-tuning, dual-mode adaptive fractional order PID controller for a quadruple tank processBy: ISA Transactions29 November, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Optimal PID Controller for Standard Second-Order Plus Time Delay Systems [Technical]
Research offers an improved tuning methodology of PID controller for standard second order plus time delay systemsBy: ISA Transactions08 November, 2017 | 1 minute -
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PWM-Switching Pattern-Based Diagnosis Scheme for Induction Motor Drives [Technical]
Research offers fault detection technique for insulated-gate bipolar transistors open-circuit faults in voltage source inverter-fed induction motor drives.By: ISA Transactions30 October, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Applications of Thermoelectric Modules on Heat Flow Detection [technical]
Quantitative analysis and practical scenarios of implementation of the thermoelectric module for heat flow detectionBy: ISA Transactions11 October, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Fault Tolerant Synchronization of Chaotic Heavy Symmetric Gyroscope Systems [technical]
Research on fault tolerant synchronization of chaotic gyroscope systems versus external disturbances via Lyapunov rule-based fuzzy control.By: ISA Transactions27 September, 2017 | 1 minutes -
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Hybrid Intelligent Method for Recognition of Common Types of Control Chart Patterns
A hybrid intelligent method for recognition of the common types of control chart pattern is proposed in this ISA technical paper.By: ISA Transactions13 September, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Stabilization of Linear Time Invariant Fractional Order Switched Systems
Technical paper focuses on stabilization problem of a linear time invariant fractional order switched system.By: ISA Transactions30 August, 2017 | 1 minutes -
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An Efficient Decentralized Iterative Learning Tracker
An efficient decentralized iterative learning tracker is proposed to improve the dynamic performance of an unknown controllable.By: ISA Transactions07 August, 2017 | 1 minutes -
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Bilateral Control of Master-Slave Manipulators with Constant Time Delay
Study of a novel teleoperation controller for a nonlinear master-slave robotic system with constant time delay in communication channel.By: ISA Transactions28 June, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Modified Smith Predictor-Based Cascade Control of Unstable Time Delay Processes
An improved cascade control structure with a modified Smith predictor is proposed for controlling open-loop unstable time delay processes.By: ISA Transactions24 May, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Simulation and Stability Analysis of Neural Network Based Control Scheme for Switched Linear Systems
Researchers propose a new adaptive neural network based control scheme for switched linear systems with parametric uncertainty and external disturbance.By: ISA Transactions08 May, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Design and Analysis of a Model Predictive Controller for Active Queue Management
An ISA technical paper proposes a model predictive control as a novel active queue management algorithm in dynamic computer networks.By: ISA Transactions12 April, 2017 | 1 minute -
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DC Servomechanism Parameter Identification: Closed-Loop Approach
Closed Loop Input Error (CLIE) approach for on-line parametric estimation of a continuous-time model of a DC servomechanism functioning in closed loop.By: ISA Transactions27 March, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Robust SDRE Filter Design for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems
Remedy for effects of modeling uncertainty, measurement noise & input disturbance on performance of the standard state-dependent Riccati equation filter,By: ISA Transactions13 March, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Dynamic Simulation and Control in Natural Gas Processing Plants
Technical benefits derived from employing dynamic simulation and control of operational transients of natural gas processing plantsBy: ISA Transactions22 February, 2017 | 1 minute -
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Simple Robust Auto-Tuning Rules for 2-DoF PID Controllers
Technical focus on the problem of providing simple tuning rules for a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DoF) PID controller with robustness considerations.By: ISA Transactions30 January, 2017 | 1 minutes -
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Design of a Self-Tuning Regulator for Temperature Control of a Polymerization Reactor
Temperature control of a polymerization reactor is used to illustrate the potential of adaptive control design by employing a self-tuning regulator concept.By: ISA Transactions07 December, 2016 | 1 minute -
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Position Control of a Servo-Hydraulic Rotary Actuator Via a Neurobiologically Motivated Algorithm
A new intelligent approach for adaptive control of a nonlinear dynamic system.By: ISA Transactions23 November, 2016 | 1 minutes -
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A Portable Hardware-In-The-Loop Device for Automotive Diagnostic Control Systems
In-vehicle driving tests for evaluating performance & diagnostic functionalities of engine control systems are often time-consuming and expensive.By: ISA Transactions07 November, 2016 | 1 minute -
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PI and Fuzzy Logic Controllers for Shunt Active Power Filter
Technical discussion of a shunt active power filter for power quality improvement in harmonics and reactive power compensation in a distribution network.By: ISA Transactions24 October, 2016 | 1 minute -
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Decentralized Supervisory Based Switching Control for Uncertain Multivariable Plants
Technical discussion of the design of a decentralized switching control for uncertain multivariable plants.By: ISA Transactions03 October, 2016 | 1 minutes -
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Pre-Processing Data Coming From a Laser-EMAT System for Non-Destructive Testing of Steel Slabs
Non-destructive test systems are increasingly applied in industry for their strong potentialities in improving and standardizing quality control.By: ISA Transactions26 September, 2016 | 1 minute -
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Implementation of a Soft PLC System Based on WorldFIP Fieldbus [technical]
Communication efficiency is lowered and real-time performance is not good enough in discrete control based on traditional WorldFIP field intelligent nodes.By: ISA Transactions12 September, 2016 | 1 minutes -
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Tracy-Widom Approach to F-16 Aircraft Sensor-Actuator Fault Detection
A fault detection approach based on the Tracy-Widom distribution is presented and applied to an F-16 aircraft flight control system.By: ISA Transactions24 August, 2016 | 1 minute -
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Event-Triggered Control Design of Linear Networked Systems with Quantizations
Technical focus on the control design problem of event-triggered networked systems with both state and control input quantizations.By: ISA Transactions10 August, 2016 | 1 minute -
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Automatic Subsea Blowout Preventer Stack Control System Using PLC-based SCADA
An extremely reliable remote control system for subsea blowout preventer stack is developed based on the off-the-shelf triple modular redundancy system.By: ISA Transactions25 July, 2016 | 1 minute -
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Simultaneous Gains Tuning in Boiler-Turbine PID-based Controller Clusters
Multi-loop PID tuning is the procedure for the online tuning of a cluster of PID controllers operating in a closed loop with a multivariable process.By: ISA Transactions06 July, 2016 | 1 minutes -
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Improved Correlation Analysis and Visualization of Industrial Alarm Data
This post is an excerpt from the journal ISA Transactions. All ISA Transactions articles are free to ISA members, or can be purchased from Elsevier Press.By: ISA Transactions20 June, 2016 | 1 minute -
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Coordinated MIMO Control Design for a Power Plant
Research engineers investigate a boiler-turbine coordinated multivariable control system based on improved sliding mode controller at a power plant.By: ISA Transactions18 April, 2016 | 1 minutes -
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PLC Performance Enhancement by Field Programmable Gate Array Design
PLC Performance Enhancement by Field Programmable Gate Array DesignBy: ISA Transactions16 March, 2016 | 1 minute -
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Multi-Objective Control of Nonlinear Boiler-Turbine Dynamics
Research paper investigates controller design approaches for nonlinear boiler-turbine dynamics subject to actuator magnitude and rate constraints.By: ISA Transactions10 February, 2016 | 1 minute -
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Plant-Wide Control: Eco-Efficiency and Control Loop Configuration
A new measure of eco-efficiency, the exergy eco-efficiency factor, for control loop configuration, is proposed in this paper.By: ISA Transactions27 January, 2016 | 1 minute -
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Development and Comparison of Neural Network-Based Soft Sensors
Radial basis network model produced better estimation capabilities than the back propagation and regression network modelsBy: ISA Transactions23 December, 2015 | 1 minutes -
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Diagnosis of Broken-Bars Fault in Induction Machines Using Higher Order Spectral Analysis
Detection and identification of induction machine faults through the stator current signal.By: ISA Transactions25 November, 2015 | 1 minute -
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Fuzzy Model Based Adaptive PID Controller Design for Nonlinear and Uncertain Processes
A novel adaptive tuning method for classical proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controller to control nonlinear processes to adjust PID gainsBy: ISA Transactions28 October, 2015 | 1 minutes -
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Robust Control of Speed and Temperature in a Power Plant Gas Turbine
An ISA technical paper discusses an H∞ robust controller been designed for a power plant gas turbine.By: ISA Transactions09 September, 2015 | 1 minute -
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Robust Control of Uncertain Switched Systems
An ISA technical paper considers the control problem of a class of uncertain switched systems defined on polyhedral sets known as piecewise linear systems.By: ISA Transactions08 July, 2015 | 1 minute -
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Adaptive Terminal Sliding-Mode Control Strategy for DC-DC Buck Converters
An ISA technical paper presents an adaptive terminal sliding mode control strategy for DC–DC buck converters.By: ISA Transactions10 June, 2015 | 1 minutes -
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Stochastic Behavior Analysis of Complex Repairable Industrial Systems Utilizing Uncertain Data
An ISA technical paper presents a novel technique for analyzing the behavior of an industrial system stochastically by utilizing vague, imprecise, and uncertain data.By: ISA Transactions25 May, 2015 | 1 minutes -
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Optimal Control in Microgrid Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
An ISA technical paper presents an improved reinforcement learning method to minimize electricity costs on the premise of satisfying the power balance and generation limit of units in a microgrid withBy: ISA Transactions11 May, 2015 | 1 minute -
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Stabilization and Tracking Control of X–Z Inverted Pendulum with Sliding-Mode Control
X–Z inverted pendulum is a new kind of inverted pendulum which can move with the combination of the vertical and horizontal forces.By: ISA Transactions13 March, 2015 | 1 minute -
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Piecewise Controller Design for Affine Fuzzy Systems
The problem of state feedback controller design for a class of nonlinear systems, which are described by continuous-time affine fuzzy systems.By: ISA Transactions27 February, 2015 | 1 minute -
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PD Plus Error-Dependent Integral Nonlinear Controllers for Robot Manipulators
In framework of traditional PID controllers, there are only three parameters available to tune, as a result, performance of the resulting system is always limited.By: ISA Transactions20 February, 2015 | 1 minute -
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Fault Detection and Diagnosis for Non-Gaussian Stochastic Distribution Systems With Time Delays via RBF Neural Networks
An ISA technical paper investigates a new fault detection and diagnosis problem via the output probability density functions for non-gausian stochastic distribution systems is investigated.By: ISA Transactions06 February, 2015 | 1 minute -
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Experimental Verification of SMC with Moving Switching Lines Applied to Hoisting Crane Vertical Motion Control
An ISA technical paper proposes a sliding mode control strategies for the point-to-point motion control of a hoisting crane.By: ISA Transactions30 January, 2015 | 1 minute -
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A Fast Converging Robust Controller Using Adaptive Second Order Sliding Mode
An ISA technical paper proposes an adaptive second order sliding mode controller with a nonlinear sliding surface.By: ISA Transactions16 January, 2015 | 1 minute -
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Static Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems
Low cost single sensor/single actuator approach to static feedback stabilization of nonlinear systems. Issue is present in many engineering applications.By: ISA Transactions09 January, 2015 | 1 minute -
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Bi-Objective Redundancy Allocation Problem
A new Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming model is presented to analyze the availability optimization of a system with a given structure.By: ISA Transactions02 January, 2015 | 1 minute -
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Finite-Time Control for Nonlinear Spacecraft Attitude
A fast terminal sliding mode control scheme with double closed loops is proposed for spacecraft attitude control.By: ISA Transactions26 December, 2014 | 1 minute -
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Estimation of Region of Attraction for Polynomial Nonlinear Systems
Estimation of Region of Attraction for Polynomial Nonlinear SystemsBy: ISA Transactions19 December, 2014 | 1 minute -
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Global Adaptive Output Feedback Control for a Class of Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems
The problem of global output feedback control for a class of nonlinear time-delay systemsBy: ISA Transactions12 December, 2014 | 1 minute -
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Safety Analysis of Discrete Event Systems Using a Simplified Petri Net Controller
This paper deals with the problem of forbidden states in discrete event systems based on Petri net models. So, a method is presented to prevent the system from entering these states by constructing aBy: ISA Transactions05 December, 2014 | 1 minute -
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Adaptive Backstepping Sliding Mode Control of Flexible Ball Screw Drives
Adaptive Backstepping Sliding Mode Control of Flexible Ball Screw DrivesBy: ISA Transactions14 November, 2014 | 1 minute -
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How to Apply Generalized Eigenvalue Minimization to Processes That Can Be Described by a First-Order Plus Time-Delay Model
An algorithm to transform the uncertain first-order plus time delay model into a state-space model with uncertainty polyhedron is detailed in this technical paper.By: ISA Transactions31 October, 2014 | 1 minute -
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Adaptive Backstepping Sliding Mode Control with Fuzzy Monitoring Strategy for a Kind of Mechanical System
A new adaptive backstepping sliding mode control law with fuzzy monitoring strategy is proposed for tracking control of a nonlinear mechanical system.By: ISA Transactions10 October, 2014 | 1 minute -
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Advantages of the Self-Organizing Controller for High-Pressure Sterilization Equipment [technical]
The self-organizing controller has proven to be a valuable tool in sterilization equipment in order to verify the capacity of the response to any change in the pressure or temperature.By: ISA Transactions26 September, 2014 | 1 minute -
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Robust Fault Detection for Switched Positive Linear Systems with Time-Varying Delays
Robust Fault Detection for Switched Positive Linear Systems with Time-Varying DelaysBy: ISA Transactions05 September, 2014 | 1 minute -
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Recurrent Fuzzy Neural Network Backstepping Control for the Prescribed Output Tracking Performance of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems
Recurrent Fuzzy Neural Network Backstepping Control for the Prescribed Output Tracking Performance of Nonlinear Dynamic SystemsBy: ISA Transactions29 August, 2014 | 1 minute
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