Neural networks, a fascinating technology inspired by the human brain, form the basis of artificial intelligence. These ...

Optimized control-system architecture comes with many production benefits. One of the tools for doing this is to perform a ...

I studied physics in college, and I’m always surprised how fundamental some of the concepts are. Take waves for example. You really wouldn’t expect the same underlying concept to be at work on surface ...

A 3D printer might have been one of the most exciting purchases my household has ever made. First, our basic bed-slinger 3D printers were simple enough that a 12-year-old could put them together solo.

Operator trust and real-time observation matter as much as theory. Advanced control cannot compensate for badly tuned base PID loops. Too-fast integral action is one of the biggest hidden causes of ...

The increasing penetration of distributed generation and the evolving requirements of smart grids have heightened the demand for fast, accurate, and robust reactive power control in Static Synchronous ...

This year I am helping us laugh and possibly learn by making one of my humorous books available to download for free in this year’s first six columns. The fourth book is Logical Thoughts at 4:00 am.

Accurate determination of the inflection point was given high priority for this test method. To accomplish this, a circular buffer for the input readings is created that's sized to 6% of the samples ...

Abstract: A new robust proportional-integrative-derivative (PID) tuning method based on nonlinear optimization is developed. The closed-loop bandwidth is maximized for specified gain and phase margins ...

A sliding-mode control based on a prescribed performance function is proposed for discrete-time single-input single-output systems. The controller design aims to ...

Abstract: This paper presents an algorithm to determine PID controller tuning regions that guarantee the stability of closed-loop control systems using the pole placement method, assigning a known ...