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- Ahlen, Anders, et al.
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Toward Wireless Control in Industrial Process Automation : A Case Study at a Paper Mill
- 2019
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Ingår i: IEEE Control Systems. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1066-033X .- 1941-000X. ; 39:5, s. 36-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Wireless sensors and networks are used only occasionally in current control loops in the process industry. With rapid developments in embedded and highperformance computing, wireless communication, and cloud technology, drastic changes in the architecture and operation of industrial automation systems seem more likely than ever. These changes are driven by ever-growing demands on production quality and flexibility. However, as discussed in "Summary," there are several research obstacles to overcome. The radio communication environment in the process industry is often troublesome, as the environment is frequently cluttered with large metal objects, moving machines and vehicles, and processes emitting radio disturbances [1], [2]. The successful deployment of a wireless control system in such an environment requires careful design of communication links and network protocols as well as robust and reconfigurable control algorithms.
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- Ahlén, Anders, et al.
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Towards Wireless Control in Industrial Process Automation : A Case Study at a Paper Mill
- 2019
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Ingår i: IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE. - : IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC. - 1066-033X .- 1941-000X. ; 39:5, s. 36-57
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Wireless sensors and networks are used only occasionally in current control loops in the process industry. With rapid developments in embedded and highperformance computing, wireless communication, and cloud technology, drastic changes in the architecture and operation of industrial automation systems seem more likely than ever. These changes are driven by ever-growing demands on production quality and flexibility. However, as discussed in "Summary," there are several research obstacles to overcome. The radio communication environment in the process industry is often troublesome, as the environment is frequently cluttered with large metal objects, moving machines and vehicles, and processes emitting radio disturbances [1], [2]. The successful deployment of a wireless control system in such an environment requires careful design of communication links and network protocols as well as robust and reconfigurable control algorithms.
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- Alam, Assad, et al.
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Heavy-Duty Vehicle Platooning for Sustainable Freight Transportation A COOPERATIVE METHOD TO ENHANCE SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY
- 2015
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Ingår i: IEEE CONTROL SYSTEMS MAGAZINE. - 1066-033X. ; 35:6, s. 34-56
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The current system of global trade is largely based on transportation and communication technology from the 20th century. Advances in technology have led to an increasingly interconnected global market and reduced the costs of moving goods, people, and technology around the world [1]. Transportation is crucial to society, and the demand for transportation is strongly linked to economic development. Specifically, road transportation is essential since about 60% of all surface freight transportation (which includes road and rail transport) is done on roads [2]. Despite the important role of road freight transportation in the economy, it is facing serious challenges, such as those posed by increasing fuel prices and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. On the other hand, the integration of information and communication technologies to transportation systems-leading to intelligent transportation systems-enables the development of cooperative methods to enhance the safety and energy efficiency of transportation networks. This article focuses on one such cooperative approach, which is known as platooning. The formation of a group of heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) at close intervehicular distances, known as a platoon (see Figure 1) increases the fuel efficiency of the group by reducing the overall air drag. The safe operation of such platoons requires the automatic control of the velocity of the platoon vehicles as well as their intervehicular distance. Existing work on platooning has focused on the design of controllers for these longitudinal dynamics, in which simple vehicle models are typically exploited and perfect environmental conditions, such as flat roads, are generally assumed. The broader perspective of how platooning can be effectively exploited in a freight transportation system has received less attention. Moreover, experimental validations of the fuel-saving potential offered by platooning have typically been performed by reproducing the perfect conditions as assumed in the design of the automatic controllers. This article focuses on these two aspects by addressing the following two objectives.
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- Annaswamy, A. M., et al.
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Control for Societal-Scale Challenges: Road Map 2030
- 2024
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Ingår i: IEEE Control Systems. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1066-033X .- 1941-000X. ; 44:3, s. 30-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The world faces some of the greatest challenges of modern times. How we address them will have a dramatic impact on society at large for generations to come. The field of control systems pertains to specific methods and principles to control dynamic systems and produce desired outcomes despite uncertainties in the system and in the environment. The development of these principles and methods has been both broad and deep, from aerospace systems and wireless networks to bioengineering and traffic control. These methods are deeply embedded in many sectors, including energy, transportation, health care, manufacturing, and robotics. With their advanced toolbox for understanding and designing feedback, robustness, dynamics, and decision making in complex systems, control systems have an opportunity to play a central role in the development of technologies and solutions for many of the key challenges that society faces.
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- Arndt, David, et al.
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Two-Wheel Self-Balancing of a Four-Wheeled Vehicle
- 2011
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Ingår i: IEEE Control Systems Magazine. - Piscataway, N.J. : IEEE Press. - 1066-033X. ; 31:2, s. 29-37
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cars and trucks are susceptible to accidents due to rollover. In the United States in 2005, 21.1 of a total of 54,718 deaths in vehicle crashes were caused by rollover [1]. Significant research has therefore been devoted to detecting and preventing rollover through active control. Numerous approaches attempt to detect or predict wheel liftoff using onboard sensing and a combination of automatic steering and braking to keep the wheels on the ground [2][4]. © 2006 IEEE.
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- Bergman, Niclas, et al.
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Terrain Navigation using Bayesian Statistics
- 1999
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Ingår i: IEEE Control Systems. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 1066-033X .- 1941-000X. ; 19:3, s. 33-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The performance of terrain-aided navigation of aircraft depends on the size of the terrain gradient in the area. The point-mass filter (PMF) described in this work yields an approximate Bayesian solution that is well suited for the unstructured nonlinear estimation problem in terrain navigation. It recursively propagates a density function of the aircraft position. The shape of the point-mass density reflects the estimate quality; this information is crucial in navigation applications, where estimates from different sources often are fused in a central filter. Monte Carlo simulations show that the approximation can reach the optimal performance, and realistic simulations show that the navigation performance is very high compared with other algorithms and that the point-mass filter solves the recursive estimation problem for all the types of terrain covered in the test. The main advantages of the PMF is that it works for many kinds of nonlinearities and many kinds of noise and prior distributions. The mesh support and resolution are automatically adjusted and controlled using a few intuitive design parameters. The main disadvantage is that it cannot solve estimation problems of very high dimension since the computational complexity of the algorithm increases drastically with the dimension of the state space. The implementation used in this work shows real-time performance for 2D and in some cases 3D models, but higher state dimensions are usually intractable.
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- Birk, Wolfgang, et al.
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Model based control for a fine coal injection plant
- 1999
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Ingår i: I E E E Control Systems Magazine. - : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). - 0888-0611. ; 19:1, s. 33-43
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Modeling, control, and gas leakage detection in the coal injection process are discussed. It is shown that by use of model-based methods, the flow and pressure of the coal injection vessel are reliably controlled. With the new control law, the coal mass flow can be used as a control parameter for the blast furnace. High injection rates can be used and more coke substituted, This is expected to yield a cost reduction in the iron production. An experimental comparison of the conventional control unit with the one suggested in this article shows that an improvement of the process efficiency can be reached by other means than increasing the capacity of the plant
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