An adaptive pitch axis autopilot design procedure is presented. The
design procedure is applicable to both stable and unstable pitch axis models
and to those having nonminimum phase. The design approach assumes
the adaptive autopilot is activated after achieving level flight. It is shown a
rate-feedback compensator can be designed...
An electro-dynamic Magnetic Levitation vehicular system has been
modelled and studied. In practice, a MagLev vehicle will consist of a
number of cars which are mechanically coupled to each other. It is
reasonable to assume that each of these cars will be independently
controlled with the help of a supervisory...
A computer model simulating the electrical activity of muscles of the upper
arm during elbow motion is presented. The output of the model is an
Electromyographic (EMG) signal. System identification is performed on the EMG
signals using autoregressive moving average (ARMA) modelling. The calculated
ARMA coefficients are then used as...
The effectiveness of linear control of a planar manipulator is presented for
robot operation markedly exceeding the limits of linearity assumed in the design of
the linear controller. Wolovich's frequency domain pole placement algorithm is
utilized to derive the linear controller. The control scheme must include state
estimation since only...
Two examples of Pacific rim plate boundary deformation are presented. In the first
part of the thesis crustal models are derived for the northwestern part of the Vizcaino
block in California using marine seismic and gravity data collected by the Mendocino
Triple Junction Seismic Experiment. A northwest-southeast trending kink in...