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CCE
2007
13 years 7 months ago
A systematic approach to plant-wide control based on thermodynamics
In this work, a systematic approach to plant-wide control design is proposed. The method combines ingredients from process networks, thermodynamics and systems theory to derive ro...
Luis T. Antelo, Irene Otero-Muras, Julio R. Banga,...
ICRA
2002
IEEE
168views Robotics» more  ICRA 2002»
14 years 19 days ago
A Dynamical Systems Approach to Behavior-Based Formation Control
Dynamical systems theory is used here as a theoretical language and tool to design a distributed control archictecture that generates navigation in formation, integrated with obst...
Sergio Monteiro, Estela Bicho
HYBRID
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Adjoint-Based Optimal Control of the Expected Exit Time for Stochastic Hybrid Systems
Abstract. In this paper, we study the problem of controlling the expected exit time from a region for a class of stochastic hybrid systems. That is, we find the least costly feedb...
Robin L. Raffard, Jianghai Hu, Claire Tomlin
TSMC
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Second-Order Consensus for Multiagent Systems With Directed Topologies and Nonlinear Dynamics
Abstract--This paper considers a second-order consensus problem for multiagent systems with nonlinear dynamics and directed topologies where each agent is governed by both position...
Wenwu Yu, Guanrong Chen, Ming Cao, Jürgen Kur...
GECCO
2004
Springer
110views Optimization» more  GECCO 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Biomass Inferential Sensor Based on Ensemble of Models Generated by Genetic Programming
A successful industrial application of a novel type biomass estimator based on Genetic Programming (GP) is described in the paper. The biomass is inferred from other available meas...
Arthur K. Kordon, Elsa Jordaan, Lawrence Chew, Gui...