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ANFIS-Based NPC Population Control in Video Games
PublicationModern computer games aim at providing rich, vivid worlds. The aim is to encourage the player to explore and interact with the in-game world. To describe the complex relations between in-game NPCs and their surrounding fuzzy logic is used. The paper presents ANFIS based population control in the video game. We present an approach allowing stabilizing the number of NPCs in-game by providing a certain amount of food to the environment....
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CFD Simulations and Tests of a Prototype Flow Control Valve
PublicationIn this paper a prototype of a flow control valve is described and numerically simulated. The flow control valve is used in hydraulic systems to maintain constant fluid flow despite changing loads of a receiver. The standard construction of this type of valves is modified mainly by eliminating the spring. The prototype consists the hydrostatically unloaded throttle valve and pressure ratio valve substituting pressure difference...
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Process Control of Biogas Purification Using Electronic Nose
PublicationNowadays, biogas produced from landfills and wastewater treatment plants or lignocellulosic biomass is important sustainable and affordable source of energy. Impurities from biogas stream can cause a serious odor problem, especially for residents of areas immediately adjacent to production plants. Therefore, biogas pre-treatment is necessary to protect engines that convert biogas into energy and in order to increase the specific...
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CPTU/DMT control of heavy tamping compaction of sands
PublicationHeavy tamping compaction method in cohesionless alluvial soil was evaluated with CPTU and DMT tests. Some examples of interpretation of soundings in pre-treated and compacted sands are given. The compaction work was performed in two stages. Compaction control was performed after each stage of tamping. Additional tests were performed two weeks after the compaction works completion to study the set-up effect. While typical increase...
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High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab/ Simulink
PublicationExplore this indispensable update to a popular graduate text on electric drive techniques and the latest converters used in industry. The Second Edition of High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab®/Simulink delivers an updated and thorough overview of topics central to the understanding of AC motor drive systems. The book includes new material on medium voltage drives, covering state-of-the-art technologies and challenges...
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Marine autonomous surface ship - control system configuration
PublicationThis paper addresses the problem of marine autonomous surface ship (MASS) control. The contribution of the paper is the development of a control system configuration, done assuming fully autonomous MASS operation under distinct operational conditions. The overview of hardware and software selection is included.
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Feedback Control of Multiphase Induction Machines with Backstepping Technique
PublicationThe paper presents the control possibility of five phase induction machines. In the proposed solution the machine model vector form is not transformed to the (dq)-coordinate system, that is connected to rotor flux vector, but utilizes the stationary system ( αβ ). Moreover, the nonlinear model linearization is based on demonstrated nonlinear variables transformation for i-orthogonal ( αβ )(n) planes. By introducing the backstepping...
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Broken Rotor Symptons in the Sensorless Control of Induction Machine
PublicationInverter fed sensorless controlled variable speed drives with induction machine are widely used in the industry applications, also in wind power generation and electric vehicles. On-line self diagnostic systems implementation is needed for early stage fault detection and avoiding a critical fault. Diagnostic algorithms in modern DSP-based controllers can operate simultaneously with control system functions. In the closed-loop controlled...
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Multichannel self-optimizing active noise control scheme
PublicationThe problem of cancellation of a nonstationary sinusoidal interference, acting at the output of an unknown multivariable linear stable plant, is considered. The proposed cancellation scheme is a nontrivial extension of the SONIC (self-optimizing narrowband interference canceller) algorithm, developed earlier for single-input, single-output plants. In the important benchmark case - for disturbances with randomwalk-type amplitude...
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Voltage control in a power system with renewable sources of energy
PublicationIntensive development of distributed generation in power systems, caused by the European Union energy policy, gives possibility for improving safety in power delivery as well as optimizing the costs of the systems functioning. In this context, distributed generation can be used for voltage control in power systems – it can be performed by the control of reactive power of each source of energy or a group of energy sources. This...
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Robust algorithm for active feedback control of narrowband noise
PublicationThe problem of active control of narrowband acoustic noise is considered. It is shown that the proposed earlier feedback control algorithm called SONIC (self-optimizing narrowband interference canceller), based on minimization of the L2-norm performance measure, can be re-derived using the L1 approach. The resulting robust SONIC algorithm is more robust to heavy-tailed measurement noise, such as the αlpha-stable noise, than the...
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Vibroflotation Control of Sandy Soils using DMT and CPTU
PublicationVibroflotation is a typical improvement method for the cohesionless deposits of high thickness. The compaction method was applied to densify sandy deposits in Gdynia Port. Compaction control was verified with CPTU and DMT tests. Some examples of interpretation of soundings in pre-treated and compacted sands are shown. The classification diagrams are given for pre-treated and compacted sand. The stress history of the deposits is...
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Active feedback noise control in the presence of impulsive disturbances
PublicationThe problem of active feedback control of a narrowband acoustic noise in the presence of impulsive disturbances is considered. It is shown that, when integrated with appropriately designed outlier detector, the proposed earlier feedback control algorithm called SONIC is capable of isolating and rejecting noise pulses. According to our tests this guarantees stable and reliable operation of the closed-loop noise cancelling...
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Regulated Control of the Assembly and Diversity of LPS by Noncoding sRNAs
PublicationThe outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria is asymmetric due to the presence of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) facing the outer leaflet of the OM and phospholipids facing the periplasmic side. LPS is essential for bacterial viability, since it provides a permeability barrier and is a major virulence determinant in pathogenic bacteria. In Escherichia coli, several steps of LPS biosynthesis and assembly are regulated by the RpoE...
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Towards Contactless, Hand Gestures-Based Control of Devices
PublicationGesture-based intuitive interactions with electronic devices can be an important part of smart home systems. In this paper, we adapt the contactless linear gesture sensor for the navigation of smart lighting system. Set of handled gestures allow to propose two methods of active light source selection, continuous dimming, and turning on and off based on discrete gestures. The average gesture recognition accuracy was 97.58% in the...
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Decentralized control of a different rated parallel UPS systems
PublicationThe paper presents the single phase uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system with galvanic separated DC-AC-DC-AC converters operating in parallel. The CAN physical layer based system of communication between converters has been developed and applied, which allow to utilize a decentralized master-slave control providing high availability factor of the whole UPS system. The control system of particular converters has been developed...
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Implementation of Hierarchical Control of Drinking Water Supply System
PublicationThe paper presents the outline of the didactical project of a complex computer controlled system realized by the first degree students of the Automatics and Robotics on the Faculty of Electrical and Control Engineering (FoEaCE) in Gdansk University of Technology (GUT). The synthesis, implementation and analysis of a multilayer hierarchical control system for drinking water supply system (DWSS) are main topics of that project. The...
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Internet system for supply and temperature control in server rooms
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Design of modified PID controllers for 3D crane control
PublicationFrom the control viewpoint, 3D crane is a dynamic, nonlinear and multidimensional electromechanical system. In this paper, five control systems using a set-point weighted PID controllers (modified controllers) are designed. These structures and properties are presented. Optimization process of controllers settings based on integral performance indices is made. Simulation tests of control systems are presented. Comparison of integral...
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Methodology of assessing the effectiveness of changes in the planning and control process
PublicationNiniejsze opracowanie poświęcone jest problematyce oceny efektywności zmian procesu planowania i sterowania. Jego celem jest opracowanie modelu i scharakteryzowanie sposobu oceny efektywności zmian tego procesu w odniesieniu do jej elementów składowych, jakimi są korzystność, skuteczność i ekonomiczność.
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Simple observer for induction motor speed sensorless control
PublicationPrzedstawiono układ sterowania polowo zorientowanego silnikiem asynchronicznym klatkowym pozwalający na pracę w szerokim zakresie prędkości obrotowych bez użycia czujnika prędkości. Zaproponowano estymator zmiennych o prostej strukturze charakteryzujący się znaczna odpornością na zmiany parametrów silnika. Zależności obserwatora oparte są na równaniach obwodu napięciowego silnika. Pokazano wyniki badań eksperymentalnych.
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Production planning and control methods in the intelligent manufacturing systems
PublicationNiniejszy rozdział prezentuje zagadnienia związane z planowaniem i sterowaniem wytwarzaniem w kontekście budowy i działania inteligentnych systemów produkcyjnych (ISP). Architektura ISP, będąca rozwinięciem elastycznych systemów produkcyjnych, integruje systemy wspomagania decyzji ze strukturami bazodanowymi oraz dodatkowymi modułami komunikacyjnymi. Systemy wspomagania decyzji budowane są w oparciu o mechanizmy tzw. inteligencji...
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Morphology control through the synthesis of metal-organic frameworks
PublicationDesignable morphology and predictable properties are the most challenging goals in material engineering. Features such as shape, size, porosity, agglomeration ratio significantly affect the final properties of metal- organic frameworks (MOFs) and can be regulated throughout synthesis parameters but require a deep under- standing of the mechanisms of MOFs formation. Herein, we systematically summarize the effects of the indi- vidual...
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Testing of Technical Fabrics under Fast Camera Control
PublicationThe dynamic development of measurement and recording techniques has been changing the way one conceives material strength. In this study, two different methods of evaluating the strength of fabrics are compared. The first is the typical and commonly used technique based on the use of a testing machine. The second method uses the so-called “fast camera” to monitor the entire process of the destruction of a fabric sample and analyse...
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Optimised allocation of actuators for DWDS
PublicationThis paper addresses the problem of actuators’ allocation within networked structured system, namely allocation of disinfectant booster stations within Drinking Water Distribution System (DWDS), under receding horizon optimised control – Model Predictive Control (MPC) to be exact. The allocation task is kept within dynamic multiobjective optimisation framework. The MPC is defined as a single objective predictive operator. Two numerical...
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Direct algorithm for optimizing robust MPC of drinking water distribution systems hydraulics
PublicationModel-based predictive control is an effective method for control the large scale systems [1]–[6], [8], [16], [17]. Method is based on on-line solution of the control task over the control horizon using current and past measurements, as well as the system model. Only a first element of calculated control sequence is applied to the plant. At the next sampling instant, based on new process output measurements, control procedure is...
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Teicoplanin-Modified HPLC Column as a Source of Experimental Parameters for Prediction of the Anticonvulsant Activity of 1,2,4-Triazole-3-Thiones by the Regression Models
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Direct QSPR: the most efficient way of predicting organic carbon/water partition coefficient (log K OC) for polyhalogenated POPs
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Use of Restraints from Consensus Fragments of Multiple Server Models To Enhance Protein-Structure Prediction Capability of the UNRES Force Field
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Protein structure prediction with the UNRES force-field using Replica-Exchange Monte Carlo-with-Minimization; Comparison with MCM, CSA, and CFMC
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Physics-based protein-structure prediction using a hierarchical protocol based on the UNRES force field: Assessment in two blind tests
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Prediction of skin color, tanning and freckling from DNA in Polish population: linear regression, random forest and neural network approaches
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High temperature corrosion evaluation and lifetime prediction of porous Fe22Cr stainless steel in air in temperature range 700–900 °C
PublicationThis work describes a high temperature corrosion kinetics study of ~30% porous Fe22Cr alloys. The surface area of the alloy (~0.02 m2 g-1) has been determined by tomographic microscopy. The weight gain of the alloys was studied by isothermal thermogravimetry in the air for 100 hours at 700 - 900 °C. Breakaway oxidation was observed after oxidation at 850 °C (~100 hours) and 900 °C (~30 hours). The lifetime prediction shows the...
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Machine learning-based prediction of seismic limit-state capacity of steel moment-resisting frames considering soil-structure interaction
PublicationRegarding the unpredictable and complex nature of seismic excitations, there is a need for vulnerability assessment of newly constructed or existing structures. Predicting the seismic limit-state capacity of steel Moment-Resisting Frames (MRFs) can help designers to have a preliminary estimation and improve their views about the seismic performance of the designed structure. This study improved data-driven decision techniques in...
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Simple Computational Methods in Predicting Limit Load of High-Strength Cold-Formed Sections due to Local Buckling: A Case Study
PublicationCold-formed thin-walled sections are prone to local buckling caused by residual stresses, geometrical imperfections and inconsistency of material properties. We present a real case of buckling failure and conduct a numerical and experimental study aimed to identify methods capable of predicting such failures. It is important because designers of structures are getting more FEA-oriented and tend to avoid lengthy procedures of cold-formed...
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Towards the Application of Structure-Property Relationship Modeling in Materials Science: Predicting the Seebeck Coefficient for Ionic Liquid/Redox Couple Systems
PublicationThis work focuses on determining the influence of both ionic liquid (IL) type and redox couple concentration on Seebeck coefficient values of such a system. The quantitative structure property relationship (QSPR) and read-across techniques are proposed as methods to identify structural features of ILs (mixed with LiI/I2 redox couple), which have the most influence on the Seebeck coefficient (Se) values of the system. ILs consisting...
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Identification of nonstationary multivariate autoregressive processes– Comparison of competitive and collaborative strategies for joint selection of estimation bandwidth and model order
PublicationThe problem of identification of multivariate autoregressive processes (systems or signals) with unknown and possibly time-varying model order and time-varying rate of parameter variation is considered and solved using parallel estimation approach. Under this approach, several local estimation algorithms, with different order and bandwidth settings, are run simultaneously and compared based on their predictive performance. First,...
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Specialized genetic operators in drinking water distribution systems control
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Simulation of surveilance of industrial robot's vibration with a use of the modal control
PublicationW pracy rozważano drgania niestacjonarnego układu nośnego robota IRb-6. Do nadzorowania drgań zastosowano algorytm sterowania modalnego przy energetycznym wskaźniku jakości. Celem proponowanego algorytmu jest minimalizacja poziomu drgań uchwytu manipulatora, a tym samym - zwiększenie możliwości nowoczesnych linii zrobotyzowanych, jak również poprawa dokładności i powtarzalności pozycjonowania robotów.
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Asynchronous motor nonlinear control with inverter output LC filter
PublicationFiltr wyjściowy falownika jest stosowany w napędach elektrycznych prądu przemiennego o regulowanej prędkości w celu wygładzenia przebiegów prądów i napięć zasilających silnik. Zastosowanie filtru utrudnia realizację precyzyjnych metod sterowania silnikami, szczególnie w przypadku napędów bezczujnikowych (tj. bez czujnika prędkości obrotowej wału silnika). Ponieważ, ze względów praktycznych, nie stosuje się pomiarów prądów i napięć...
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Process Control Challenges and Solutions: TEOS, W, and CU CMP
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Research Platform for Monitoring, Control and Security of Critical Infrastructure Systems
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Fuzzy decision support system for the control of budget and schedule in SPM
PublicationObiektem rozważań jest komputerowy system wspierania decyzji kierowniczych w zakresie zarządzania budżetem i harmonogramem przy realizacji projektów informatycznych. Omawiany system opary jest na dynamicznych modelach rozmytych podlegających bieżącemu dostrajaniu na podstawie danych z obserwacji zarządzanego procesu. Wstępny projekt modeli rozmytych oparty został na danych zarządczych pochodzących z realizacji dwu projektów informatycznych....
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A system solution for integration of process planning and control in flexible manufacturing
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Visual control improves the accuracy of hand positioning in Huntington’s disease
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Performance of FAN conception of traffic control in IP QoS networks
PublicationIn this paper we present the architectural implementation of Flow Aware Networking (FAN), a new approach for realizing QoS guarantees in the Internet. We also propose FAN traffic control algorithm which performs traffic control on flow level. Using the proposed FAN node model, we conduct simulation research to prove if FAN can be a new approach for realizing QoS guarantees. The basis of this research is finding a way to guarantee...
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Optimal Multivariable Control for Modified Z-source Based IPT
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Enhancement of SrSi2O2N2:Eu2+ phosphor by means of oxygen to nitrogen control
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Neural networks based NARX models in nonlinear adaptive control
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Necessary conditions for optimal control of general N-D model
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