scholarly journals Anti-Roll Characteristics of Marine Gyrostabilizer Based on Adaptive Control and Hydrodynamic Simulation

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Biao Li ◽  
Xianku Zhang ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Ning Chen
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Adaptive Controller ◽  
Variable Gain ◽  
Irregular Wave ◽  
Floating Base ◽  
Multi Body

The gyrostabilizer produces the anti-roll effect through the precession output moment generated by a high-speed rotating flywheel. As a floating-base multi-body system composed of ship and gyrostabilizer, the recent research that has only focused on the control strategies or multi-body dynamics is obviously not comprehensive. This study presents an adaptive controller based on the variable gain control strategy for a marine gyrostabilizer installed on a port salvage tug. The variable gain control strategy controlled the flywheel precession output moment of the gyrostabilizer and thereby of the precession process, to reduce the ship roll motion effectively. Furthermore, a full-system hydrodynamic model of a gyrostabilizer-ship-wave based on three-dimensional numerical wave flume technology was innovatively established to evaluate its anti-roll performance under irregular wave conditions. The simulation results show that, for the sea state considered, the increase of spin rate of gyrostabilizer flywheel improved the anti-roll effect significantly. The average anti-roll rate of the gyrostabilizer decreased with the increase of significant wave height, wave period and wave encounter angle.

scholarly journals A reward–punishment feedback control strategy based on energy information for wrist rehabilitation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 172988142094065
Author(s):  
Jiajin Wang ◽  
Jiaji Zhang ◽  
Guokun Zuo ◽  
Changcheng Shi ◽  
Shuai Guo
Keyword(s):  
Feedback Control ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Adaptive Controller ◽  
Feedback Mechanism ◽  
Coefficient Of Determination ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Rehabilitation Robot ◽  
Feedback Control Strategy ◽  
Energy Information

Based on evidence from the previous research in rehabilitation robot control strategies, we found that the common feature of the effective control strategies to promote subjects’ engagement is creating a reward–punishment feedback mechanism. This article proposes a reward–punishment feedback control strategy based on energy information. Firstly, an engagement estimated approach based on energy information is developed to evaluate subjects’ performance. Secondly, the estimated result forms a reward–punishment term, which is introduced into a standard model-based adaptive controller. This modified adaptive controller is capable of giving the reward–punishment feedback to subjects according to their engagement. Finally, several experiments are implemented using a wrist rehabilitation robot to evaluate the proposed control strategy with 10 healthy subjects who have not cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The results of these experiments show that the mean coefficient of determination ( R 2) of the data obtained by the proposed approach and the classical approach is 0.7988, which illustrate the reliability of the engagement estimated approach based on energy information. And the results also demonstrate that the proposed controller has great potential to promote patients’ engagement for wrist rehabilitation.

scholarly journals Propeller control strategy for coaxial compound helicopters

2018 ◽  
Vol 233 (10) ◽  
pp. 3775-3789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Yuan ◽  
Douglas Thomson ◽  
Renliang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
High Speed ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Flight Dynamics ◽  
Axial Thrust ◽  
Handling Qualities ◽  
Speed Range ◽  
Compound Helicopter ◽  
Flight Dynamics Model

The coaxial compound configuration has been proposed as a concept for future high-performance rotorcraft. The co-axial rotor system does not require an anti-torque device, and a propeller provides axial thrust. A well-designed control strategy for the propeller is necessary to improve the performance and the flight dynamics characteristics. A flight dynamics model of coaxial compound helicopter is developed to analyze these influences. The performance and the flight dynamics characteristics in different propeller strategies were first investigated. The results show that there is an improvement in the performance in high-speed flight when the propeller provides more propulsive forces. It also illustrates that a reasonable allocation of the rotor and the propeller in providing thrust can further reduce the power consumption in the mid speed range. In other words, the propeller control strategy can be an effective method to improve the cruise-efficiency. The flight dynamics analysis in this paper includes trim and handling qualities. The trim results prove that the propeller strategy can affect the collective pitch, longitudinal cyclic pitch, and the pitch attitude. If the control strategy is designed only to decrease the required power, it will result in a discontinuity in the trim characteristics. Handling qualities are investigated based on the ADS-33E-PRF requirement. The result demonstrates that the bandwidth and phase delay results and eigenvalue results in various speed at different propeller strategies are all satisfied. However, some propeller control strategies lead to severe inter-axis coupling in high-speed flight. Based on these results, this paper proposes the propeller control strategy for the coaxial compound helicopter. This strategy ensures good trim characteristics and handling qualities, which satisfy the related requirements, and improves the flight range or the performance in high-speed flight.

Modeling and Control of Pantograph and Contact Wire for High Speed Train

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Muenchhof ◽  
Timothy Hindle ◽  
Tarunraj Singh
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
High Speed Train ◽  
Modeling And Control ◽  
Contact Wire ◽  
Closed Form Solutions ◽  
Mass Damper ◽  
And Control

Abstract The paper focuses on the modeling and control of a catenary-pantograph system. For the catenary system, only the contact wire is considered. Initially, the case of a constant force traveling at a constant velocity along the wire is investigated and closed form solutions are derived. Next, the pantograph dynamics are considered using a simple spring-mass-damper model, where the force is no longer assumed to be constant. The need for control in this case is apparent and motivates two different control strategies. The first control strategy utilizes a feed-forward Fourier series control profile. For the second control strategy, a proportional force feed-back control is added. All control parameters are obtained using constrained optimization techniques. Stability and sensitivity issues are addressed.

Experimental Evaluation of a High-Gain Control for Compressor Surge Suppression

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Blanchini ◽  
Pietro Giannattasio ◽  
Diego Micheli ◽  
Piero Pinamonti
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Control Device ◽  
Guarantee System ◽  
Operation Speed ◽  
Compressor Surge ◽  
Adaptive Control Strategy ◽  
Proportional Controller

The present paper considers the suppression of surge instability in compression systems by means of active control strategies based on a high-gain approach. A proper sensor-actuator pair and a proportional controller are selected which, in theory, guarantee system stabilization in any operating condition for a sufficiently high value of the gain. Furthermore, an adaptive control strategy is introduced which allows the system to automatically detect a suitable value of the gain needed for stabilization, without requiring any knowledge of the compressor and plant characteristics. The control device is employed to suppress surge in an industrial compression system based on a four-stage centrifugal blower. An extensive experimental investigation has been performed in order to test the control effectiveness in various operating points on the stalled branch of the compressor characteristic and at different compressor speeds. On one hand the experimental results confirm the good performance of the proposed control strategy, on the other they show some inherent difficulties in stabilizing the system at high compressor speeds due to the measurement disturbances and to the limited operation speed of the actuator.

Experimental Evaluation of a High-Gain Control for Compressor Surge Suppression

2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Blanchini ◽  
Pietro Giannattasio ◽  
Diego Micheli ◽  
Piero Pinamonti
Keyword(s):  
Control Strategy ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Control Device ◽  
Guarantee System ◽  
Operation Speed ◽  
Compressor Surge ◽  
Adaptive Control Strategy ◽  
Proportional Controller

The present paper considers the suppression of surge instability in compression systems by means of active control strategies based on a high-gain approach. A proper sensor-actuator pair and a proportional controller are selected that, in theory, guarantee system stabilization in any operating condition for a sufficiently high value of the gain. Furthermore, an adaptive control strategy is introduced that allows the system automatically to detect a suitable value of the gain needed for stabilization, without requiring any knowledge of the compressor and plant characteristics. The control device is employed to suppress surge in an industrial compression system based on a four-stage centrifugal blower. An extensive experimental investigation has been performed in order to test the control effectiveness in various operating points on the stalled branch of the compressor characteristic and at different compressor speeds. On one hand, the experimental results confirm the good performance of the proposed control strategy; on the other, they show some inherent difficulties in stabilizing the system at high compressor speeds due to the measurement disturbances and to the limited operation speed of the actuator.

scholarly journals Improving short-term retention after robotic training by leveraging fixed-gain controllers

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 205566831986631
Author(s):  
Dylan P Losey ◽  
Laura H Blumenschein ◽  
Janelle P Clark ◽  
Marcia K O’Malley
Keyword(s):  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
End Users ◽  
Robotic Control ◽  
Robotic Rehabilitation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Robotic Training ◽  
Variable Gain ◽  
Term Retention

Introduction When developing control strategies for robotic rehabilitation, it is important that end-users who train with those strategies retain what they learn. Within the current state-of-the-art, however, it remains unclear what types of robotic controllers are best suited for promoting retention. In this work, we experimentally compare short-term retention in able-bodied end-users after training with two common types of robotic control strategies: fixed- and variable-gain controllers. Methods Our approach is based on recent motor learning research, where reward signals are employed to reinforce the learning process. We extend this approach to now include robotic controllers, so that participants are trained with a robotic control strategy and auditory reward-based reinforcement on tasks of different difficulty. We then explore retention after the robotic feedback is removed. Results Overall, our results indicate that fixed-gain control strategies better stabilize able-bodied users’ motor adaptation than either a no controller baseline or variable-gain strategy. When breaking these results down by task difficulty, we find that assistive and resistive fixed-gain controllers lead to better short-term retention on less challenging tasks but have opposite effects on the learning and forgetting rates. Conclusions This suggests that we can improve short-term retention after robotic training with consistent controllers that match the task difficulty.

scholarly journals Research and Analysis of Permanent Magnet Transmission System Controls on Diesel Railway Vehicles

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Lili Kang ◽  
Dongjie Jiang ◽  
Chaoying Xia ◽  
Yongjiu Xu ◽  
Kaiyi Sun
Keyword(s):  
Permanent Magnet ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Transmission System ◽  
Torque Control ◽  
Railway Vehicle ◽  
Transmission Systems ◽  
Traction Motor ◽  
Railway Vehicles

As the energy crisis and environmental pollution continue to be a gradual threat, the energy saving of transmission systems has become the focus of railway vehicle research and design. Due to their high-power density and efficiency features, permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) have been gradually applied in railway vehicles. To improve the efficiency of the transmission system of diesel railway vehicles, it is a good option to use PMSM as both a generator and traction motor to construct a full permanent magnet transmission system (FPMTS). Due to the application of the new FPMTS, some of the original control strategies for diesel railway vehicle transmission systems are no longer applicable. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust and improve the control strategies to meet the needs of FPMTS. We studied several key issues that affect the reliability and comfort of the vehicles. As such, this paper introduced the FPMTS control strategy, including the coordinated control strategy of the diesel and the traction motor, the two degrees of freedom (2DOF) decoupling current regulator, the maximum torque control of the standardized unit current, the wheel slip protection control, and the fault protection strategy. The experiment was carried out on the test platform and the test run of the diesel shunting locomotive equipped with the FPMTS. The results showed that the control strategy described in this paper met the operation characteristics of the FPMTS and that the control performance was superior. The study of FPMTS lays the foundation for the subsequent application of permanent magnet motors in high-powered diesel locomotives and high-speed diesel multi-units.

Integrated Control of Rotating Stall and Surge in High-Speed Multi-Stage Compression Systems

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. M. Eveker ◽  
D. L. Gysling ◽  
C. N. Nett ◽  
O. P. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Active Control ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Integrated Control ◽  
Axial Flow ◽  
Rotating Stall ◽  
Low Flow ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Simultaneous Control

Aeroengines operate in regimes for which both rotating stall and surge impose low flow operability limits. Thus, active control strategies designed to enhance operability of aeroengines must address both rotating stall and surge as well as their interaction. In this paper, a previously developed nonlinear control strategy that achieves simultaneous active control of rotating stall and surge is applied to a high-speed 3-stage axial flow compression system with operating parameters representative of modern aeroengines. The controller is experimentally validated for 2 compressor builds and its robustness to radial distortion assessed. For actuation, the control strategy utilizes an annulus-averaged bleed valve with bandwidth on the order of the rotor frequency. For sensing, measurements of the circumferential asymmetry and annulus-averaged unsteadiness of the flow through the compressor are used. Experimental validation of simultaneous control of rotating stall and surge in a high-speed environment with minimal sensing and actuation requirements is viewed as another important step towards applying active control to enhance operability of compression systems in modem aeroengines.

Study on Control Design of Interchange Entrance Congestion Zone

2013 ◽  
Vol 361-363 ◽  
pp. 2270-2275
Author(s):  
Xian Guang Wang ◽  
Xiao Nian Sun
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Operational Reliability ◽  
Traffic Demand ◽  
Traffic Characteristics ◽  
Overall Reliability

Interchange entrance area is the key point which affects the overall operational reliability of an Interchange. In order to alleviate the crowded ramp merging area, improve the overall reliability of the interchange and improve traffic safety, when traffic demand increases to a certain extent, traffic control strategies should be used. According of the characteristics of the interchange ramp entrance area, the control strategy of interchange and the mainline which affect the reliability of high-speed road network most has been researched. Analyzing the geometric and traffic characteristics of the ramp merging area, different control strategies on the ramp and the mainline are proposed, that is ramp access control strategy and the main line lane running constraint strategy.

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