Zooplankton abundance in the River Kars, Northeast Turkey: Impact of environmental variables

The zooplankton of the River Kars was studied from May to October 2005 at five sampling stations. Thirty different zooplankton taxa were recorded, consisting of one copepod, four cladocera and twentyfive rotifers. The highest zooplankton densities were recorded in July and the lowest in October. Watertemperature and nutrients were the main environmental factors which affected zooplankton abundance in the river

Stability analysis of cell dynamics in leukemia

In order to better understand the dynamics of acute leukemia, and in particular to find theoretical conditions for the efficient delivery of drugs in acute myeloblastic leukemia, we investigate stability of a system modeling its cell dynamics. The overall system is a cascade connection of sub-systems consisting of distributed delays and static nonlinear feedbacks. Earlier results on local asymptotic stability are improved by the analysis of the linearized system around the positive equilibrium. For the nonlinear system, we derive stability conditions by using Popov, circle and nonlinear small gain criteria. The results are illustrated with numerical examples and simulations. © 2012 EDP Sciences

Computation of H∞ controllers for infinite dimensional plants using numerical linear algebra

The mixed sensitivity minimization problem is revisited for a class of single-input-single-output unstable infinite dimensional plants with low order weights. It is shown that H∞ controllers can be computed from the singularity conditions of a parameterized matrix whose dimension is the same as the order of the sensitivity weight. The result is applied to the design of H∞ controllers with integral action. Connections with the so-called Hamiltonian approach are also established. © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Integral action based Dirichlét boundary control of Burgers equation

Modeling and boundary control for Burgers Equation is studied in this paper. Modeling has been done via processing of numerical observations through singular value decomposition with Galerkin projection. This results in a set of spatial basis functions together with a set of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) describing the temporal evolution. Since the dynamics described by Burgers equation is nonlinear, the corresponding reduced order dynamics turn out to be nonlinear. The presented analysis explains how boundary condition appears as a control input in the ODEs. The controller design is based on the linearization of the dynamic model. It has been demonstrated that an integral controller, whose gain is a function of the spatial variable, is sufficient to observe reasonably high tracking performance with a high degree of robustness

H∞-Performance Analysis of Robust Controllers Designed for AQM

It has been shown that the TCP connections through the congested routers with the Active Queue Management (AQM) can be modeled as a nonlinear feedback system. In this paper, we design H∞ robust controllers for AQM based on the linearized TCP model with time delays. For the linear system model exhibiting LPV nature, we investigate the H∞-performance with respect to the uncertainty bound of RTT (round trip time). The robust controllers and the corresponding analysis of H∞-performance are validated by simulations in different scenarios

Numerical Computation of H∞ Optimal Controllers for Time Delay Systems Using YALTA

Numerical computation of H∞ controllers for time delay systems has been a challenge since 1980s. Even though significant techniques are developed to obtain direct optimal controllers, application of these methods may require manual computation depending on the plant. In this paper, an alternative computational technique is proposed for direct optimal controllers originally obtained by Toker and Özbay (1995). The new controller expression contains finite dimensional transfer functions and an infinite dimensional term, which is stable. Thus it is suitable for finite dimensional approximations and practical non-fragile implementations. In this method, in order to eliminate manual computation of the plant factorization for neutral and retarded delay systems YALTA (a tool developed at INRIA) is used. The new controller computation is implemented in Matlab, and it is illustrated on an example. © 201

Stable H∞ controller design for time-delay systems

This paper investigates stable suboptimal [image omitted] controllers for a class of single-input single-output time-delay systems. For a given plant and weighting functions, the optimal controller minimizing the mixed sensitivity (and the central suboptimal controller) may be unstable with finitely or infinitely many poles in +. For each of these cases, search algorithms are proposed to find stable suboptimal [image omitted] controllers. These design methods are illustrated with examples

On the H∞ controller design for a magnetic suspension system model

This paper deals with the H∞ optimal controller design for a magnetic suspension system model derived in Knospe and Zhu [2011], with added input/output delay. The plant is a fractional order system with time delay i.e., the transfer function of the plant involves infinite dimensional terms including a rational function of √/s and e-hs, where h > 0 represents the delay. The H∞ optimal controller is designed by using the recent formulation given in Ozbay [2012] for the mixed sensitivity minimization problem for unstable infinite dimensional plants with low order weights. The effect of time delay on the achievable performance level is illustrated. © 2013 IFAC

Design of a switched robust control scheme for drug delivery in blood pressure regulation

A control algorithm based on switching robust controllers is presented for a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) time-delay system modeling automatic infusion of vasodilator drug to regulate postsurgical hypertension. The system is scheduled along a measurable signal trajectory. The prospective controllers are robustly designed at various operating points forming a finite set of robust controllers and then a hysteresis switching is performed between neighboring robust controllers for a larger operating range of the LPV system. The stability of the switching LPV system for the entire operating range is ensured by providing a sufficient condition in terms of bound on the scheduling signal variation using the concept of dwell time. Simulation results are provided to verify the performance of the designed control scheme. © 201

Switching resilient PI controllers for active queue management of TCP flows

Active Queue Management (AQM) is used in computer networks to increase link utilization with less queueing delays. The fluid flow model or TCP based on delay differential equations supplies the mathematical background for modelling the AQM as a feedback system. Recently various PI and PID controllers arr designed for this feedback system, [7], [18]. In this paper, we consider the case for which the Round Trip Time (RTT) is time varying and we propose switching resilient PI controllers using the design method introduced in [18]. © 2007 IEEE