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Whole Body Model Predictive Control with a Memory of Motion: Experiments on a Torque-Controlled Talos

Sylvain Calinon, Rohan Budhiraja, Teguh Santoso Lembono

This paper presents the first successful experiment implementing whole-body model predictive control with state feedback on a torque-control humanoid robot. We demonstrate that our control scheme is able to do whole-body target tracking, control the balanc ...

IEEE2021

Review of control strategies for lower-limb exoskeletons to assist gait

Mohamed Bouri, Auke Ijspeert, Romain Pierre François Baud, Ali Reza Manzoori

Background Many lower-limb exoskeletons have been developed to assist gait, exhibiting a large range of control methods. The goal of this paper is to review and classify these control strategies, that determine how these devices interact with the user. Met ...

BioMed Central2021

Resource-Aware Stochastic Self-Triggered Model Predictive Control

Colin Neil Jones, Yingzhao Lian, Yuning Jiang

This letter considers the control of uncertain systems operated under limited resource factors, such as battery life or hardware longevity. We consider here resource-aware self-triggered control techniques that schedule system operation non-uniformly in ti ...

2021

A hybrid control strategy for force and precise end effector positioning of a twisted string actuator

Jamie Paik, Andres San Millan Rodriguez

We propose a new control approach for the twisted string actuation (TSA) system; a hybrid control scheme consisting of two nested loops, considering the motor angle and the axial force at the clamping point of the actuator as the system outputs. We show th ...

2021

Dynamic Modeling and Control of a Coupled Reforming/Combustor System for the Production of H2 via Hydrocarbon-Based Fuels

Theodoros Damartzis

The present work aims to provide insights into the dynamic operation of a coupled reformer/combustion unit that can utilize a variety of saturated hydrocarbons (HCs) with 1–4 C atoms towards H2 production (along with CO2). Within this concept, a preselecte ...

2020

A nonlinear model predictive control scheme for sensor fault tolerance in observation processes

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti

This article addresses the problem of designing a sensor fault-tolerant controller for an observation process where a primary, controlled system observes, through a set of measurements, an exogenous system to estimate the state of this system. We consider ...

WILEY2020

Response of noise-amplifier flows: From linear control to nonlinear jet breakup

Isha Shukla

Among hydrodynamically unstable flows, the amplifier-flows are characterized by their large amplification potential in presence of external noise. Since amplifiers do not have an intrinsic dynamics, a chosen forcing can be applied to eventually control the ...

EPFL2019

PCA and deep learning based myoelectric grasping control of a prosthetic hand

Huaiqi Huang

Background: For the functional control of prosthetic hand, it is insufficient to obtain only the motion pattern information. As far as practicality is concerned, the control of the prosthetic hand force is indispensable. The application value of prosthetic ...

2018

Predictive Control of Buildings for Demand Response and Ancillary Services Provision

Faran Ahmed Qureshi

This thesis develops optimization based techniques for the control of building heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems for the provision of demand response and ancillary services to the electric grid. The first part of the thesis focuses ...

EPFL2017

Integration of Perimeter Control and Route Guidance in Large-scale Urban Networks via Model Predictive Control

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Isik Ilber Sirmatel

Traffic congestion is a substantial problem plaguing modern society. Researchers and practitioners working on transportation systems turn to methods from automatic control to decrease congestion and improve urban mobility. Considering the sheer physical si ...

2017

Distributed model predictive control of energy systems in microgrids

François Maréchal, Paul Michael Stadler, Araz Ashouri

This paper presents a flexible and modular control scheme based on distributed model predictive control (DMPC) to achieve optimal operation of decentralized energy systems in smart grids. The proposed approach is used to coordinate multiple distributed ene ...

IEEE2016

Optimization Based Control for Target Estimation and Tracking via Highly Observable Trajectories An Application to Motion Control of Autonomous Robotic Vehicles

Colin Neil Jones, Andrea Alessandretti, António Pedro Rodrigues de Aguiar

This paper proposes a Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme to solve the target estimation and tracking problem. The objective is to derive a feedback law that drives an autonomous robotic vehicle to follow a target vehicle using an on-line estimate of the ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

On the Use of Transient Information for Static Real-Time Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti

Optimal operation of chemical processes is key for meeting productivity, quality, safety and environmental objectives. Both model-based and data-driven schemes are used to compute optimal operating conditions [1]: - The model-based techniques are intu ...

2015

On the Connection between the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman and the Fokker-Planck Control Frameworks

Fabio Nobile

In the framework of stochastic processes, the connection between the dynamic programming scheme given by the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and a recently proposed control approach based on the Fokker-Planck equation is discussed. Under appropriate assum ...

2014

A parametric multi-convex splitting technique with application to real-time NMPC

Colin Neil Jones, Jean-Hubert Hours

A novel splitting scheme to solve parametric multi-convex programs is presented. It consists of a fixed number of proximal alternating minimisations and a dual update per time step, which makes it attractive in a real-time Nonlinear Model Predictive Contro ...

2014

Indirect, Non-adaptive Control of a Class of Nonlinear Uncertain Systems with Applications to Motion Control of Swimming Robots

Auke Ijspeert, Yannick Morel

Motion control of bio-inspired mobile robotic platforms can prove a challenging problem. In particular, models for the considered type of systems may prove nonlinear, uncertain, and fairly complicated. To address these issues, use of an output predictor-ba ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2013

A real-time control system architecture for industrial power amplifiers

Faran Ahmed Qureshi

Power amplifiers are a highly important component in a range of industrial applications, such as, servo-drives, magnetic resonance imaging, energy systems, and audio. The control system for power amplifiers should satisfy a range of requirements, e. g., of ...

Ieee2013

Functional Modeling and Energetic Macroscopic Representation of Modular Multilevel Converters

Alfred Rufer, Nicolas Cherix, Michail Vasiladiotis

A key feature of Modular Multilevel Converters (MMC) is the continuous and independent nature of the branch currents. Therefore, a decoupled control of the line and partial bus currents is possible, unlike for classical topologies. To this end, several con ...

2012

Energetic Macroscopic Representation and PSIM® simulation: application to a DC/DC converter input filter stability

Philippe Barrade

Simulation is a key issue in the design of control electrical systems. Simulation packages using component library, such as PSIM®, are very useful to achieve this goal. The simulation model is thus easily built from the system topology (structural model). ...

2010

A Control Theory Approach for Thermal Balancing of MPSoC

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Francesco Zanini

Thermal balancing and reducing hot-spots are two important challenges facing the MPSoC designers. In this work, we model the thermal behavior of a MPSoC as a control theory problem which enables the design of an optimum frequency controller without dependi ...

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