Adaptive Fixed-Time Trajectory Tracking Control for Underactuated Hovercraft with Prescribed Performance in the Presence of Model Uncertainties by Mingyu Fu, Tan Zhang, Fuguang Ding, Duansong Wang

“…Finally, all tracking errors of the closed-loop system are uniformly ultimately bounded and fixed-time convergent. …”
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Seromuscular Colonic Flap for Intrapelvic Soft-Tissue Coverage: A Reconstructive Option for Plastic Surgeons When Traditionally Used Flaps Are Not Available by Johnathon Aho, Sebastian Winocour, Ziyad S. Hammoudeh, Heidi Nelson, Peter Rose, Nho V. Tran

“…The mucosa was removed from a blind loop of colon, and a pedicled seromuscular flap based on the colonic mesentery was placed into the pelvis for vascularized soft-tissue coverage and elimination of dead space. …”
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Predictive Control for Interval Type-2 Fuzzy System with Event-Triggered Scheme by Siyao Wang, Xiaoming Tang, Li Deng, Hongchun Qu, Linfeng Tian, Cheng Tan

“…By applying the quadratic boundedness (QB) technique, the recursive feasibility and quadratic stability of closed-loop system can be guaranteed. A numerical simulation and comparison studies are proposed to illustrate the effectiveness of this approach.…”
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ROITP: Road Obstacle-Involved Trajectory Planner for Autonomous Trucks by Yechen Qin, Yiwei Huang, Wenhao Yu, Hong Wang

“…Validation across various scenarios on a hardware-in-loop platform demonstrates that the proposed planner is effective and feasible for real-time implementation.…”
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Generalized-Disturbance Rejection Control for Vibration Suppression of Piezoelectric Laminated Flexible Structures by Xiao-Yu Zhang, Run-Xiao Wang, Shun-Qi Zhang, Zhan-Xi Wang, Xian-Sheng Qin, Rüdiger Schmidt

“…In the proposed GDR-PI control, a refined state space model is first constructed, and a generalized disturbance including the disturbance influence matrices, unknown physical disturbances, and state variables is defined. In the closed loop of GDR-PI control, physical disturbances can be counteracted indirectly by feeding back estimated generalized disturbances. …”
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Faults Detection Using Sliding Mode Observer and Its Application on Elevating Servo Systems by Lingfei Tian, Linfang Qian, Miao Li, Jiawei Fu

“…The elevating servo system (ESS) of vehicle-mounted howitzer (VMH) is a typical closed-loop electrohydraulic position servo system, and the faults of its actuator and sensor seriously affect the safety and reliability of the system. …”
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High-Order Sliding Mode-Based Synchronous Control of a Novel Stair-Climbing Wheelchair Robot by Juanxiu Liu, Yifei Wu, Jian Guo, Qingwei Chen

“…Stability of the closed-loop system is proved by Lyapunov theory. The simulation is performed by MATLAB to verify the effectiveness of the proposed controller. …”
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Phytobezoar: A Brief Report with Surgical and Radiological Correlation by Sameer A. Hirji, Faith C. Robertson, Grace F. Chao, Bharti Khurana, Jonathan D. Gates

“…An abdominal computed tomography revealed dilated loops of small bowel with a transition point at the ileum, distal to his prior bowel anastomosis. …”
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A dual role of Cohesin in DNA DSB repair by Michael Fedkenheuer, Yafang Shang, Seolkyoung Jung, Kevin Fedkenheuer, Solji Park, Davide Mazza, Robin Sebastian, Hiroyuki Nagashima, Dali Zong, Hua Tan, Sushil Kumar Jaiswal, Haiqing Fu, Anthony Cruz, Supriya V. Vartak, Jan Wisniewski, Vittorio Sartorelli, John J. O’Shea, Laura Elnitski, Andre Nussenzweig, Mirit I. Aladjem, Fei-Long Meng, Rafael Casellas

“…Cohesin, a multi-subunit protein complex, plays a crucial role in both chromosome organization and DNA repair by creating architectural loops through chromatin extrusion. However, the mechanisms by which cohesin regulates these distinct processes are not fully understood. …”
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Prescribed Performance Tracking Control for Nonlinear Stochastic Time-Delay Systems with Multiple Constraints by Man Zhang, Ru Chang, Ying Wang

“…Based on stochastic mean-square stability theory, all signals in the closed-loop system are proven to be bounded under the designed control scheme. …”
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Deadbeat Control of a Modified Single-Phase Five-Level Photovoltaic Inverter with Reduced Number of Switches by Mohsen Ghorbanali Afjeh, Mojtaba Babaei, Mohsen Alizadeh Bidgoli, Amir Ahmarinejad

“…In order to obtain the optimal output voltage of the inverter, the deadbeat controller is suggested as a rapid dynamic, low-computation digital control method. This closed-loop inverter is implemented in TMS320f28335 digital signal controller to evaluate the performance of the proposed inverter under nonlinear and linear loads. …”
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Designing a Neural Observer to Estimate the State Variables of the Dynamical System of a Specific Class of Leukaemia by Yousef Farshidi, Reza Ghasemi, Aminin Sharafian Ardekani

“…Then the error is calculated and propagated back to the network and the weights are updated. This loop is executed until the error asymptotically converges to a small neighbourhood of zero. …”
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Power decoupling method for synchronous reference frame-based vector control by Zhen Gong, Xiaorong Xie, Chengxi Liu, Filipe Faria da Silva, Yonghao Gui

“…This short communication analyzes the power coupling mechanism of synchronous reference frame-based vector control (SRF-VC) of voltage source inverter (VSI), which is caused by the variation of voltage angle difference (VVAD) between voltage at point of common coupling (PCC) and grid voltage. Then, a power closed loop transfer function model is proposed to study the power coupling characteristics. …”
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Features of circuitry of acousto-optic laser measuring systems for controlling three-coordinate (3D) movements of products and equipment elements. Part 1. by E. V. Leun

“…The paper discusses the circuitry of the measuring circuit based on the phase-locked loop (PLL) system, which makes it possible to achieve the maximum resolution when the AO LMS operates in the start-stop mode, i.e. …”
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Modelling of Heat Transfer Phenomena for Vertical and Horizontal Configurations of In-Pool Condensers and Comparison with Experimental Findings by Davide Papini, Antonio Cammi

“…A typical passive DHR system is the two-phase flow, natural circulation, closed loop system, where heat is removed by means of a steam generator or heat exchanger, a condenser, and a pool. …”
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A Novel Routing Control Technique for the Energy Hole in the Underwater Acoustic Distributed Network by Dong Xiao, Min Zhao, Ning Jia, Tong-Rui Peng, Yan Chen, Li Ma

“…To deal with this problem, a loop-free routing control technique is proposed in this paper. …”
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Digital technologies in music education. Using Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) with Project-Based Learning (PBL) by María Elena Cuenca-Rodríguez, Ignacio Pascual-Moltó, Raquel Pastor-Prada

“…BandLab and Walk Band are two mobile and web-based applications that let users create and record their own songs, providing them with a variety of virtual instruments, samples, loops and drum machines. These applications can be used as educational tools to encourage musical learning and creativity in secondary and higher education students. …”
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Troubling Toys: Rare-Earth Magnet Ingestion in Children Causing Bowel Perforations by Parkash Mandhan, Muthana Alsalihi, Saleem Mammoo, Mansour J. Ali

“…Abdominal imaging revealed several (26 and 5) pieces of rare-earth magnets in the bowel loops. Emergency surgical exploration revealed multiple gastrointestinal perforations and fistula formation at sites of bowel entrapment in between strong magnets apposed to one another. …”
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A 70-MHz Bandwidth Time-Interleaved Noise-Shaping SAR-Assisted Delta-Sigma ADC With Digital Cross-Coupling in 28-nm CMOS by Lucas Moura Santana, Ewout Martens, Jorge Lagos, Piet Wambacq, Jan Craninckx

“…A novel technique to implement the noise coupling mid-quantization is presented to relax the timing bottleneck by parallelizing the operations needed for coupling. The loop filter is implemented using power-efficient, no hold-phase ring amplifiers, with an input capacitor reset presampling to reduce kickback noise in the input network. …”
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Energy-Optimized Consensus Formation Control for the Time-Delayed Bilateral Teleoperation System of UAVs by Hui-yu Sun, Guang-ming Song, Zhong Wei, Ying Zhang

“…Finally, the human-in-the-loop simulations are performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.…”
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