Adaptive Chebyshev Neural Network Control for Ventilator Model under the Complex Mine Environment by Ranhui Liu, Xinyan Hu, Chengyuan Zhang, Chuanxi Liu

“…Afterwards, an appropriate Lyapunov function candidate is designed to guarantee the stability of the proposed controller and the closed-loop ventilator system. Finally, the ACNN controller has been demonstrated to be effective in terms of validity and precision for the new proposed ventilator model through the simulations.…”
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Prescribed Performance Tracking Control for the Hypersonic Vehicle with Actuator Faults by Zhenghui Yang, Wentao He, Yushan He, Yaen Xie, Jun Li, Shuo Song

“…Specially, in consideration of the unknown actuator failures, the adaptive signals are designed to enhance the reliability of the closed-loop system. Finally, according to rigorous theoretical analysis and simulation experiment, the stability of the proposed controller is verified, and its superiority is exhibited intuitively.…”
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A Sliding Mode Approach to Vector Field Path Following for a Fixed-Wing UAV by Luca Pugi, Lorenzo Franchi, Samuele Favilli, Giuseppe Mattei

“…The algorithm exploits the banking dynamics and generates reference signals for the inner-loop aileron control. A MATLAB&Simulink^® simulation environment is used to verify the performance and robustness of the compared guidance algorithms. …”
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Homeomorphism Mapping Based Neural Networks for Finite Time Constraint Control of a Class of Nonaffine Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Systems by Jianhua Zhang, Quanmin Zhu, Yang Li, Xueli Wu

“…Because of using the finite time adaptive law to training weights of neural networks, the closed-loop error system signals are in assurance of bounded in finite time. …”
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An FPGA-Integrated Time-to-Digital Converter Based on a Ring Oscillator for Programmable Delay Line Resolution Measurement by Chao Chen, Shengwei Meng, Zhenghuan Xia, Guangyou Fang, Hejun Yin

“…The ring oscillator realized in loop containing a PDL and a look-up table (LUT) generates periodic oscillatory pulses. …”
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Design, Experiment, and Commissioning of the Passive Residual Heat Removal System of China’s Generation III Nuclear Power HPR1000 by Feng Li, Yazhe Lu, Xiao Chu, Qiang Zheng, Guanghao Wu

“…The experiment results show that the PRS can establish natural circulation and discharge residual heat of the first loop. China’s Fuqing no. 5 nuclear power plant completed the installation of the PRS in September 2019 and carried out commissioning work in October. …”
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Guidance Navigation and Control for Autonomous Multiple Spacecraft Assembly: Analysis and Experimentation by Riccardo Bevilacqua, Marcello Romano, Fabio Curti, Andrew P. Caprari, Veronica Pellegrini

“…The proposed approaches are successfully validated via hardware-in-the-loop experimentation, using four autonomous three-degree-of-freedom robotic spacecraft simulators, floating on a flat floor.…”
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Asymmetric Barrier Lyapunov Function-Based Wheel Slip Control for Antilock Braking System by Xiaolei Chen, Zhiyong Dai, Hui Lin, Yanan Qiu, Xiaogeng Liang

“…Under the proposed control scheme, self-locking is avoided completely and zero steady state error tracking of the wheel optimal slip ratio is implemented. The Hardware-In-Loop (HIL) experiments have validated the effectiveness of the proposed controller.…”
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Utilization of Foaming Technology in Cemented Paste Backfill of High-Mud Superfine Unclassified Tailings by Jian-wen Zhao, Xin-min Wang, Kang Peng, Shuai Li

“…Besides, the simulation results were further verified by a semi-industrial loop test. The results indicate that the optimum ratio of TFB is a cement-sand ratio of 1 : 8, mass concentration of 70%, and bubble ratio of 20%. …”
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Networked Predictive Trajectory Tracking Control for Underactuated USV with Time-Varying Delays by Tao Lei, Yuanqiao Wen, Yi Yu, Minglong Zhang, Xin Xiong, Kang Tian

“…Finally, theoretical analysis and extensive comparative simulation tests demonstrated that the proposed control scheme guaranteed complete compensation for time-varying delays while ensuring the stability of the closed-loop system.…”
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Projection-Based Adaptive Backstepping Control of a Transport Aircraft for Heavyweight Airdrop by Ri Liu, Xiuxia Sun, Wenhan Dong, Guangzhi Xu

“…An autopilot inner loop that combines backstepping control with adaptive function approximation is developed for airdrop operations. …”
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Approximation-Based Fixed-Time Adaptive Tracking Control for a Class of Uncertain Nonlinear Pure-Feedback Systems by Cheng He, Jian Wu, Jiyang Dai, Zhe Zhang, Libin Xu, Pinwei Li

“…The controllers designed in this paper ensure that all signals in the closed-loop system are semiglobally uniform and ultimately bounded in a fixed time. …”
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Investigation on the Transition Criterion of Smooth Stratified Flow to Other Flow Patterns for Gas-Hydrate Slurry Flow by Bohui Shi, Jiaqi Wang, Yifan Yu, Lin Ding, Yang Liu, Haihao Wu

“…A series of gas-hydrate slurry flow experiments were carried out in a high-pressure (>10 MPa) horizontal flow loop. The transition criterion of smooth stratified flow to other flow patterns for gas-hydrate slurry flow was established and validated and combined with experimental data at different water cuts. …”
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Towards cross-platform interoperability for machine-assisted text annotation by Richard Eckart de Castilho, Nancy Ide, Jin-Dong Kim, Jan-Christoph Klie, Keith Suderman

“…The study is conducted in the context of a specific annotation methodology, namely machine-assisted interactive annotation (also known as human-in-the-loop annotation). This methodology requires the ability to freely combine resources from different document repositories, access a wide array of NLP tools that automatically annotate corpora for various linguistic phenomena, and use a sophisticated annotation editor that enables interactive manual annotation coupled with on-the-fly machine learning. …”
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A New Adaptive Control for Five-Phase Fault-Tolerant Flux-Switching Permanent Magnet Motor by Hongyu Tang, Wenxiang Zhao, Chenyu Gu

“…Three Lyapunov functions are designed, and the stability of the closed-loop system is analyzed in detail. Finally, both simulation and experimental results are presented to verify the proposed control method.…”
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An Improved Internal Model Principle Based Multivariable Nonlinear Control Method with Multiclass Nonharmonic Disturbances and Its Application to Speed Control of a Motor Drive Sys... by Yang Yu, Zengqiang Mi, Tong Zhao, Yikun Xu

“…A Lyapunov function is constructed to theoretically prove the global uniform boundness of all signals for the multivariable closed-loop system. Finally, the presented method is applied to implement the speed control and reject the multiclass nonharmonic disturbances for a two-input motor drive system. …”
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Towards Noncommutative Linking Numbers via the Seiberg-Witten Map by H. García-Compeán, O. Obregón, R. Santos-Silva

“…Some geometric and topological implications of noncommutative Wilson loops are explored via the Seiberg-Witten map. In the abelian Chern-Simons theory on a three-dimensional manifold, it is shown that the effect of noncommutativity is the appearance of 6n new knots at the nth order of the Seiberg-Witten expansion. …”
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Observer-based event triggering security load frequency control for power systems involving air conditioning loads by Xiaoming Wang, Yunlong Bai, Zhiyong Li, Wenguang Zhao, Shixing Ding

“…The stability of the closed-loop system is guaranteed by deriving an $ H_{\infty} $ stability criterion using the Lyapunov–Krasovskii function method, with controller parameters determined through linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). …”
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Thermostructural Analysis of Plate-Type Heat Exchanger Prototypes Considering Weld Properties by Kee-nam Song, Sung-deok Hong

“…Welded plate-type heat exchanger prototypes made of Hastelloy-X alloy were manufactured, and performance tests on the prototypes were performed in a small-scale nitrogen gas loop at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute. …”
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sEMG-MMG State-Space Model for the Continuous Estimation of Multijoint Angle by Xugang Xi, Chen Yang, Seyed M. Miran, Yun-Bo Zhao, Shuliang Lin, Zhizeng Luo

“…Using the proposed model, a closed-loop prediction-correction approach, unscented particle filtering, is used to estimate the joint angle from sEMG and MMG signals. …”
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