10 research outputs found
A framework for optimal actuator/sensor selection in a control system
© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. When dealing with large-scale systems, manual selection of a subset of components (sensors/actuators), or equivalently identification of a favourable structure for the controller, that guarantees a certain closed-loop performance, is not very feasible. This paper is dedicated to the problem of concurrent optimal selection of actuators/sensors which can equivalently be considered as the structure identification for the controller. In the context of a multi-channel H 2 dynamic output feedback controller synthesis, we formulate and analyse a framework in which we incorporate two extra terms for penalising the number of actuators and sensors into the variational formulations of controller synthesis problems in order to induce a favourable controller structure. We then develop an explicit scheme as well as an iterative process for the purpose of dealing with the multi-objective problem of controller structure and control law co-design. It is also stressed that the immediate application of the proposed approach lies within the fault accommodation stage of a fault tolerant control scheme. By two numerical examples, we demonstrate the remarkable performance of the proposed approach
Novel frameworks for the design of fault-tolerant control using optimal sliding-mode control
Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This paper describes 2 schemes for a fault-tolerant control using a novel optimal sliding-mode control, which can also be employed as actuator redundancy management for overactuated uncertain linear systems. By using the effectiveness level of the actuators in the performance indexes, 2 schemes for redistributing the control effort among the remaining (redundant or nonfaulty) set of actuators are constructed based on an H2-based optimal sliding-mode control. In contrast to the current sliding-mode fault-tolerant control design methods, in these new schemes, the level of control effort required to maintain sliding is penalised. The proposed optimal sliding-mode fault-tolerant control design schemes are implemented in 2 stages. In the first stage, a state feedback gain is derived using an LMI-based scheme that can assign a number of the closed-loop eigenvalues to a known value whilst satisfying performance specifications. The sliding function matrix related to the particular state feedback derived in the first stage is obtained in the second stage. The difference between the 2 schemes proposed for the sliding-mode fault-tolerant control is that the second one includes a separate control allocation module, which makes it easier to apply actuator constraints to the problem. Moreover, it will be shown that, with the second scheme, we can deal with actuator faults or even failures without controller reconfiguration. We further discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the 2 schemes in more details. The effectiveness of the proposed schemes are illustrated with numerical examples
Model Order Reduction
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Experiments with Generalized Quantum Measurements and Entangled Photon Pairs
This thesis describes a linear-optical device for performing generalized quantum measurements
on quantum bits (qubits) encoded in photon polarization, the implementation
of said device, and its use in two diff erent but related experiments. The device works by
coupling the polarization degree of freedom of a single photon to a `mode' or `path' degree
of freedom, and performing a projective measurement in this enlarged state space in order
to implement a tunable four-outcome positive operator-valued measure (POVM) on the
initial quantum bit. In both experiments, this POVM is performed on one photon from a
two-photon entangled state created through spontaneous parametric down-conversion.
In the fi rst experiment, this entangled state is viewed as a two-qubit photonic cluster
state, and the POVM as a means of increasing the computational power of a given resource
state in the cluster-state model of quantum computing. This model traditionally
achieves deterministic outputs to quantum computations via successive projective measurements,
along with classical feedforward to choose measurement bases, on qubits in a highly entangled
resource called a cluster state; we show that `virtual qubits' can be appended to a
given cluster by replacing some projective measurements with POVMs. Our experimental
demonstration fully realizes an arbitrary three-qubit cluster computation by implementing
the POVM, as well as fast active feed-forward, on our two-qubit photonic cluster state.
Over 206 diff erent computations, the average output delity is 0.9832 +/- 0.0002; furthermore
the error contribution from our POVM device and feedforward is only of order 10^-3, less
than some recent thresholds for fault-tolerant cluster computing.
In the second experiment, the POVM device is used to implement a deterministic
protocol for remote state preparation (RSP) of arbitrary photon polarization qubits. RSP
is the act of preparing a quantum state at a remote location without actually transmitting
the state itself. We are able to remotely prepare 178 diff erent pure and mixed qubit
states with an average delity of 0.995. Furthermore, we study the the fidelity achievable
by RSP protocols permitting only classical communication, without shared entanglement,
and compare the resulting benchmarks for average fidelity against our experimental results.
Our experimentally-achieved average fi delities surpass the classical thresholds whenever
classical communication alone does not trivially allow for perfect RSP
NeutroAlgebra Theory, volume I
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ECG analysis and classification using CSVM, MSVM and SIMCA classifiers
Reliable ECG classification can potentially lead to better detection methods and increase
accurate diagnosis of arrhythmia, thus improving quality of care. This thesis investigated the
use of two novel classification algorithms: CSVM and SIMCA, and assessed their
performance in classifying ECG beats. The project aimed to introduce a new way to
interactively support patient care in and out of the hospital and develop new classification
algorithms for arrhythmia detection and diagnosis. Wave (P-QRS-T) detection was performed
using the WFDB Software Package and multiresolution wavelets. Fourier and PCs were
selected as time-frequency features in the ECG signal; these provided the input to the
classifiers in the form of DFT and PCA coefficients. ECG beat classification was performed
using binary SVM. MSVM, CSVM, and SIMCA; these were subsequently used for
simultaneously classifying either four or six types of cardiac conditions. Binary SVM
classification with 100% accuracy was achieved when applied on feature-reduced ECG
signals from well-established databases using PCA. The CSVM algorithm and MSVM were
used to classify four ECG beat types: NORMAL, PVC, APC, and FUSION or PFUS; these
were from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database (precordial lead group and limb lead II).
Different numbers of Fourier coefficients were considered in order to identify the optimal
number of features to be presented to the classifier. SMO was used to compute hyper-plane
parameters and threshold values for both MSVM and CSVM during the classifier training
phase. The best classification accuracy was achieved using fifty Fourier coefficients. With the
new CSVM classifier framework, accuracies of 99%, 100%, 98%, and 99% were obtained
using datasets from one, two, three, and four precordial leads, respectively. In addition, using
CSVM it was possible to successfully classify four types of ECG beat signals extracted from
limb lead simultaneously with 97% accuracy, a significant improvement on the 83% accuracy
achieved using the MSVM classification model. In addition, further analysis of the following
four beat types was made: NORMAL, PVC, SVPB, and FUSION. These signals were
obtained from the European ST-T Database. Accuracies between 86% and 94% were obtained
for MSVM and CSVM classification, respectively, using 100 Fourier coefficients for
reconstructing individual ECG beats. Further analysis presented an effective ECG arrhythmia
classification scheme consisting of PCA as a feature reduction method and a SIMCA
classifier to differentiate between either four or six different types of arrhythmia. In separate
studies, six and four types of beats (including NORMAL, PVC, APC, RBBB, LBBB, and
FUSION beats) with time domain features were extracted from the MIT-BIH arrhythmia
database and the St Petersburg INCART 12-lead Arrhythmia Database (incartdb) respectively.
Between 10 and 30 PCs, coefficients were selected for reconstructing individual ECG beats in
the feature selection phase. The average classification accuracy of the proposed scheme was
98.61% and 97.78 % using the limb lead and precordial lead datasets, respectively. In addition,
using MSVM and SIMCA classifiers with four ECG beat types achieved an average
classification accuracy of 76.83% and 98.33% respectively. The effectiveness of the proposed
algorithms was finally confirmed by successfully classifying both the six beat and four beat
types of signal respectively with a high accuracy ratio
Application of non-linear system identification approaches to modelling, analysis, and control of fluid flows.
Flow control has become a topic of great importance for several applications, ranging from commercial aircraft, to intercontinental pipes and skyscrapers. In these applications, and many more, the interaction with a fluid flow can have a significant influence on the performance of the system. In many cases the fluids encountered are turbulent and detrimental to the latter.
Several attempts have been made to solve this problem. However, due to the non-linearity and infinite dimensionality of fluid flows and their governing equations, a complete understanding of turbulent behaviour and a feasible control approach has not been obtained.
In this thesis, model reduction approaches that exploit non-linear system identification are applied using data obtained from numerical simulations of turbulent three-dimensional channel flow, and two-dimensional flow over the backward facing step. A multiple-input multiple-output model, consisting of 27 sub-structures, is obtained for the fluctuations of the velocity components of the channel flow. A single-input single-output model for fluctuations of the pressure coefficient, and two multiple-input single-output models for fluctuations of the velocity magnitude are obtained in flow over the BFS.
A non-linear model predictive control strategy is designed using identified one- and multi-step ahead predictors, with the inclusion of integral action for robustness. The proposed control approach incorporates a non-linear model without the need for expensive non-linear optimizations.
Finally, a frequency domain analysis of unmanipulated turbulent flow is perfumed using five systems. Higher order generalized frequency response functions (GFRF) are computed to study the non-linear energy transfer phenomena. A more detailed investigation is performed using the output FRF (OFRF), which can elucidate the contribution of the n-th order frequency response to the output frequency response