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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Hybrid Quadratic Programming - Pullback Bundle Dynamical Systems Control

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SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2023

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EPFL2023

Third-harmonic generation monitoring of femtosecond-laser-induced in-volume functional modifications

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2023

Closed-loop technique using gain balance for fast Brillouin Optical Time-Domain Analysis

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Li Zhang, Ana Gabriela Correa Mena

A closed-loop servo control based on the gain ratio of two probing frequencies is proposed for fast BOTDA, where the feedback is independent of probe and pump loss, making it robust in harsh environment. ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

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Data-driven and Safe Networked Control with Applications to Microgrids

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Today, automatic control is integrated into a wide spectrum of real-world systems such as electrical grids and transportation networks. Many of these systems comprise numerous interconnected agents, perform safety-critical operations, or generate large amo ...

EPFL2022

Linear Parameter-Varying Control of A Power-Synchronized Grid-Following Inverter

Alireza Karimi, Behrooz Bahrani

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2022

Breaking Silos to Guarantee Control Stability with Communication over Ethernet TSN

Amir Aminifar

Editor's notes: The cross-layer approach presented in this article involves co-designing a feedback controller's parameters together with the schedule of an Ethernet network used for communicating state information and control signals.-Samarjit Chakraborty ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Probabilistic Adaptive Control for Robust Behavior Imitation

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IEEE2021

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2021

3D Printed Motor-Sensory Module Prototype for Facial Rehabilitation

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh, Matthew Aaron Robertson

This work demonstrates the first 3D printed wearable motor-sensory module prototype designed for facial rehabilitation, focusing on facial paralysis. The novelty of the work lies in the fast fabrication of the first fully soft working prototype, including ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2022

Learning From Demonstration and Interactive Control of Variable-Impedance to Cut Soft Tissues

Aude Billard, Rui Wu

In this article, we propose an approach to extract variable-impedance during cutting tasks from human demonstrations, so as to ease soft-tissue cutting by robots. We model the dynamic adjustment of the human arm during interactions with the tissue and tran ...

2021

Developments on actuator management, plasma state reconstruction, and control on ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Mengdi Kong, Simon Van Mulders

In present day tokamaks, the role of the control research is to support the physics experiments and to prepare technologies for future devices such as ITER and DEMO. This paper presents the developments done under the MST1 program collaboration on ASDEX Up ...

2021