• A new meta-module for efficient reconfiguration of hinged-units modular robots 

      Parada, Irene; Sacristán Adinolfi, Vera; Silveira, Rodrigo Ignacio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      We present a robust and compact meta-module for edge-hinged modular robot units such as M-TRAN, SuperBot, SMORES, UBot, PolyBot and CKBot, as well as for central-point-hinged ones such as Molecubes and Roombots. Thanks ...
    • A robust asynchronous sampled-data control design for nonlinear systems with actuator failures 

      Acho Zuppa, Leonardo; Buenestado Caballero, Pablo (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2017-08-26)
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      This paper presents a recent self-sampled-data control algorithm applied to nonlinear systems with actuator failures. Our approach uses the linear model of a given nonlinear system, and based on a granted actuator fault ...
    • An application of chance-constrained model predictive control to inventory management in hospitalary pharmacy 

      Maestre Torreblanca, José María; Velarde, Pablo; Jurado, Isabel; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos; Isla Tejera, Beatriz; del Prado, José Ramón (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      Inventory management is one of the main tasks that the pharmacy department has to carry out in a hospital. It is a complex problem that requires to establish a tradeoff between different and contradictory optimization ...
    • Gain-scheduling LPV control for autonomous vehicles including friction force estimation and compensation mechanism 

      Alcalá Baselga, Eugenio; Puig Cayuela, Vicenç; Quevedo Casín, Joseba Jokin; Escobet Canal, Teresa (2018-08-14)
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      This study presents a solution for the integrated longitudinal and lateral control problem of urban autonomousvehicles. It is based on a gain-scheduling linear parameter-varying (LPV) control ...
    • Modeling and robust attitude control of a quadrotor system 

      Torres Gaitan, Angelica; Bolea Monte, Yolanda (2013)
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      This paper describes the no-lineal model, and attitude Robust control of a Quadrotor MIMO System (UAV). The dynamic model of the UAV is transformed into a LTI system and approximated by a SISO system due to the low coupling ...
    • Robust control of systems with output hysteresis and input saturation using a finite time stability approach 

      Rotondo, Damiano; Rizzello, Gianluca; Naso, David (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
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      This paper presents a robust control approach for a class of nonlinear dynamic systems consisting of a linear plant connected in series with a hysteresis operator, and affected by control input saturation. Such a class of ...
    • Sensor-fault tolerance using robust MPC with set-based state estimation and active fault isolation 

      Xu, Feng; Olaru, Sorin; Puig Cayuela, Vicenç; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos; Niculescu, Silviu-Iulian (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      In this paper, a sensor fault-tolerant control (FTC) scheme using robust model predictive control (MPC) and set theoretic fault detection and isolation (FDI) is proposed. The MPC controller is used to both robustly control ...
    • Sliding mode control multiphase buck converter implementation issues 

      Biel Solé, Domingo; Fossas Colet, Enric; Ramos Lara, Rafael Ramón (2010)
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      Two different approaches to achieve robustness with respect to the input voltage, the reference voltage and the load variations in a step-down multiphase power converter are presented in this paper. The proposal allows ...