(E)-2-(4-Nitro­benzyl­ideneamino)benzamide

The title compound, C14H11N3O3, adopts an E conformation, with a dihedral angle of 41.8 (1) ° between the mean planes of the two benzene rings. One of the amino H atoms forms an intra­molecular hydrogen bond with the amide N atom, while the other H atom forms an inter­molecular hydrogen bond with the carbonyl O atom of an adjacent mol­ecule, forming dimers about inversion centers. A non-classical inter­molecular C—H⋯O hydrogen bond also links adjacent mol­ecules into dimers

An Adaptive Dynamic Surface Controller for Ultralow Altitude Airdrop Flight Path Angle with Actuator Input Nonlinearity

In the process of ultralow altitude airdrop, many factors such as actuator input dead-zone, backlash, uncertain external atmospheric disturbance, and model unknown nonlinearity affect the precision of trajectory tracking. In response, a robust adaptive neural network dynamic surface controller is developed. As a result, the aircraft longitudinal dynamics with actuator input nonlinearity is derived; the unknown nonlinear model functions are approximated by means of the RBF neural network. Also, an adaption strategy is used to achieve robustness against model uncertainties. Finally, it has been proved that all the signals in the closed-loop system are bounded and the tracking error converges to a small residual set asymptotically. Simulation results demonstrate the perfect tracking performance and strong robustness of the proposed method, which is not only applicable to the actuator with input dead-zone but also suitable for the backlash nonlinearity. At the same time, it can effectively overcome the effects of dead-zone and the atmospheric disturbance on the system and ensure the fast track of the desired flight path angle instruction, which overthrows the assumption that system functions must be known

Delay-Dependent Stability Analysis for Recurrent Neural Networks with Time-Varying Delays

This paper concerns the problem of delay-dependent stability criteria for recurrent neural networks with time varying delays. By taking more information of states and activation functions as augmented vectors, a new class of the Lyapunov functional is proposed. Then, some less conservative stability criteria are obtained in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Finally, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method