.../approach The proposed system is designed as a multi-layered system. First, the control architecture layer links the input and the output spaces via quaternion-based differential flatness equations. Then, the trajectory generation layer determines the optimal reference path and avoids obstacles to secure...

...Hamid Asgari; Mohsen Fathi Jegarkandi; XiaoQi Chen; Raazesh Sainudiin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and compare conventional and neural network-based controllers for gas turbines. Design/methodology/approach Design of two different controllers is considered. These controllers...

...M. Vijaya Kumar; P. Sampath; S. Suresh; S.N. Omkar; Ranjan Ganguli Purpose This paper seeks to present a feedback error learning neuro‐controller for an unstable research helicopter. Design/methodology/approach Three neural‐aided flight controllers are designed to satisfy the ADS‐33 handling...

... Limited 2008 Thermal measurement Artificial satellites Control X‐Sat is a technology development and demonstration project with multiple mission support capability. It is a 120 kg class and three‐axis stabilized micro‐satellite in a polar sun synchronous orbit. The primary payload...

...Amir Nassirharand Purpose The paper's purpose is to initiate an effort that will result in a systematic approach for design of control systems for multivariable, nonlinear, and unstable space robots. Design/methodology/approach The design approach is based on multivariable describing function...

...Reşat Özgür Doruk; Erol Kocaoğlan Purpose This paper aims to focus on the implementation of the integral back‐stepping control on the model of BILSAT – 1 satellite of the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK). Design/methodology/approach The nonlinear model...

.... Design/methodology/approach A method to control the critical Reynolds number of viscous flow between parallel plates with an imposed pressure gradient to infinitesimal harmonic disturbances is introduced. The method consists of introducing harmonic perturbations to the lower plate based on skin friction...

...Yuan Su; Yihua Cao; Kungang Yuan Purpose This paper aims to present a theoretical method for analyzing the stability and control of a hingeless helicopter in the presence of windshear. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the stability and control of a hingeless helicopter...

...Amir Nassirharand; Hassan Karimi Purpose Development and application of a new systematic approach for design of a control system in order to control the mixture ratio of liquid propellant engines. Design/methodology/approach The design approach is based on a full nonlinear dynamic model...

...Manuel A. Duarte‐Mermoud; Jaime S. Rioseco; Rodrigo I. González Purpose To apply and simulate under different conditions, the combined model reference adaptive control (CMRAC) technique to control the pitch angle in a subsonic plane. Comparisons with the classical PID controller and the adaptive...

...Donald McLean Introduces the issue, outlining the contribution that the scientific disciplines of measurement and control make to the operational success of all aircraft and how these are applied by the Aviation Panel on the Institute of Measurement and Control. Donald McLean is known...

...Jan Maciejowski   Figure 2 Model predictive control A future trajectory for the manipulated variable is then chosen, which brings the predicted controlled variable as close as possible to the reference trajectory at the coincidence points. This future trajectory is found...

... induced velocity interference factor analysis, the coaxial rotor aerodynamic interference can be taken into account. With the combination of coaxial rotor helicopter control features and nonlinear inverse simulation technique, the governing equations for maneuvering flight can be solved so as to determine...

...Nasr Eddine Debbache Increases in air traffic and air traffic controller workload lead to a need to provide assistance to the air traffic controller. Proposes and validates a new organization of air traffic control, which allows air traffic controllers to remain active in the control...

...Ioan Ursu; Felicia Ursu; Lucian Iorga Presents a switching type neuro‐fuzzy control synthesis. The control algorithm supposes as a component part a neurocontrol designed to optimize a performance index. Whenever the neurocontrol saturates or a certain performance parameter of the system decreases...

... for aerial inspection and imagery acquisition. Presents a guidance control strategy for the trajectory path following of the AURORA airship, where the objective is to make the vehicle follow a set of pre‐defined points. The guidance strategy is based on a path tracking error generation methodology that takes...

...Yuan Su; Yihua Cao Studies of the hingeless rotor helicopter dynamic stability and control laws are conducted. A new method is given for the calculation of stability and controllability of a helicopter in flight condition with lateral velocity. First, the rotary wing dynamic model considered...

... Cambridge Control Control Design Simulation Software Engineering Cambridge Control Keywords: Cambridge Control, Control, Design, Simulation, Software,Engineering Cambridge Control Limited was established in 1984 to provide world-class consultancy in control engineering...

... the development of the intelligent machine and the impact that these will have on manufacturing in the future. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Algorithms Automation Control Fuzzy logic Manufacturing Neural networks An intelligent machine may be regarded as a system that comprises of a number...