{"title":"PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION ANALYSIS FOR SHIP CENTRAL COOLING SYSTEM BASED ON VARIABLE FREQUENCY CONTROL","authors":"Jinyin Du∗, Yanming Xu∗","doi":"10.2316/j.2022.201-0283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2316/j.2022.201-0283","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41412,"journal":{"name":"Mechatronic Systems and Control","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74002878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LSTM-ATTENTION TEXT CLASSIFICATION METHOD COMBINED WITH KEY INFORMATION","authors":"Jinbao Yang, Min Ma, Yu Fu, Yanhong Gu","doi":"10.2316/j.2022.201-0331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2316/j.2022.201-0331","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41412,"journal":{"name":"Mechatronic Systems and Control","volume":"258 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77091183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A DESIGN FOR CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION CONSISTING OF LINKS, CRANKS, CAMS, AND FREEWHEELS","authors":"Toshihiro Yukawa∗","doi":"10.2316/j.2022.201-0287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2316/j.2022.201-0287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41412,"journal":{"name":"Mechatronic Systems and Control","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88511830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"INTELLIGENT VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING AND INTERNET OF THINGS","authors":"Guangjian Shao∗","doi":"10.2316/j.2021.201-0207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2316/j.2021.201-0207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41412,"journal":{"name":"Mechatronic Systems and Control","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76146045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The main question this paper aims to address is whether a lane-keeping controller can serve as a safety feature in order to increase handling and stability of car-trailer combinations. The derivation of a nonholonomic car-trailer model is provided and its open-loop stability is analyzed. A look-ahead based lane-keeping controller is applied to the system, and a comparison is made between the closed-loop stability of an individual car and a car-trailer setup. The critical speed of the vehicle combination is shown as a function of various trailer parameters, with and without the lane-keeping controller enabled. A modified version of the controller is also tested, utilizing feedback of the trailer states. This ensures that the trailer is also kept at the center of the lane, but no improvement was found in terms of stable trailer configurations.
{"title":"The Effects of Trailer Towing on the Dynamics of a Lane-Keeping Controller","authors":"Illés Vörös, D. Takács","doi":"10.1115/DSCC2020-3141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/DSCC2020-3141","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The main question this paper aims to address is whether a lane-keeping controller can serve as a safety feature in order to increase handling and stability of car-trailer combinations. The derivation of a nonholonomic car-trailer model is provided and its open-loop stability is analyzed. A look-ahead based lane-keeping controller is applied to the system, and a comparison is made between the closed-loop stability of an individual car and a car-trailer setup. The critical speed of the vehicle combination is shown as a function of various trailer parameters, with and without the lane-keeping controller enabled. A modified version of the controller is also tested, utilizing feedback of the trailer states. This ensures that the trailer is also kept at the center of the lane, but no improvement was found in terms of stable trailer configurations.","PeriodicalId":41412,"journal":{"name":"Mechatronic Systems and Control","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74946658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The study of simultaneous energy harvesting and vibration attenuation has recently been the focus in many acoustic meta-materials investigations. The studies have reported the possibility of harvesting electric power using electromechanical coupling; however, the effect of the electromechanical resonator on the obtained bandgap’s boundaries has not been explored yet. In this paper, we investigate metamaterial coupled to electromechanical resonators to demonstrate the effect of electromechanical coupling on the wave propagation analytically and experimentally. The electromechanical resonator is shunted to an external load resistor to harvest energy. We derive the analytical dispersion curve of the system and show the band structure for different load resistors and electromechanical coupling coefficients. To verify the analytical dispersion relations, we also simulate the system numerically. Furthermore, experiment is carried out to validate the analytical observations. The obtained observations can guide designers in selecting electromechanical resonator parameters for effective energy harvesting from meta-materials.
{"title":"Effect of Electromechanical Coupling on Locally Resonant Metastructures for Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Vibration Attenuation Applications","authors":"M. Bukhari, Feng Qian, O. Barry, L. Zuo","doi":"10.1115/DSCC2020-3176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/DSCC2020-3176","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The study of simultaneous energy harvesting and vibration attenuation has recently been the focus in many acoustic meta-materials investigations. The studies have reported the possibility of harvesting electric power using electromechanical coupling; however, the effect of the electromechanical resonator on the obtained bandgap’s boundaries has not been explored yet. In this paper, we investigate metamaterial coupled to electromechanical resonators to demonstrate the effect of electromechanical coupling on the wave propagation analytically and experimentally. The electromechanical resonator is shunted to an external load resistor to harvest energy. We derive the analytical dispersion curve of the system and show the band structure for different load resistors and electromechanical coupling coefficients. To verify the analytical dispersion relations, we also simulate the system numerically. Furthermore, experiment is carried out to validate the analytical observations. The obtained observations can guide designers in selecting electromechanical resonator parameters for effective energy harvesting from meta-materials.","PeriodicalId":41412,"journal":{"name":"Mechatronic Systems and Control","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83575477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper, the decentralized uncertainty and disturbance estimator (UDE)-based robust region reaching controller is developed to drive a swarm of quadrotors with the full degrees-of-freedom, nonlinear, coupled and underactuated dynamics to track the trajectory of a moving target region while avoiding collisions among themselves. The backstepping technique is utilized to seamlessly fuse the UDE into the region reaching control framework with the function of estimating and compensating the model uncertainties and external disturbances. Simulation studies are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for achieving the moving target trajectory tracking even in the presence of external disturbances.
{"title":"Uncertainty and Disturbance Estimator-Based Robust Region Tracking Control for Multiple Quadrotors","authors":"Qi Lu, B. Ren, Yuan-dong Ji","doi":"10.1115/DSCC2020-3308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/DSCC2020-3308","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper, the decentralized uncertainty and disturbance estimator (UDE)-based robust region reaching controller is developed to drive a swarm of quadrotors with the full degrees-of-freedom, nonlinear, coupled and underactuated dynamics to track the trajectory of a moving target region while avoiding collisions among themselves. The backstepping technique is utilized to seamlessly fuse the UDE into the region reaching control framework with the function of estimating and compensating the model uncertainties and external disturbances. Simulation studies are carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for achieving the moving target trajectory tracking even in the presence of external disturbances.","PeriodicalId":41412,"journal":{"name":"Mechatronic Systems and Control","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88535080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lung En Jan, Junfeng Zhao, Shunsuke Aoki, Anand Bhat, Chen-Fang Chang, R. Rajkumar
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have real-time knowledge of the immediate driving environment, actions to be taken in the near future and information from the cloud. This knowledge, referred to as preview information, enables CAVs to drive safely, but can also be used to minimize fuel consumption. Such fuel-efficient transportation has the potential to reduce aggregate fuel consumption by billions of gallons of gas every year in the U.S. alone. In this paper, we propose a planning framework for use in CAVs with the goal of generating fuel-efficient vehicle trajectories. By utilizing on-board sensor data and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications, we leverage the computational power of CAVs to generate eco-friendly vehicle trajectories. The planner uses an eco-driver model and a predictive cost-based search to determine the optimal speed profile for use by a CAV. To evaluate the performance of the planner, we introduce a co-simulation environment consisting of a CAV simulator, Matlab/Simulink and a CAV software platform called the InfoRich Eco-Autonomous Driving (iREAD) system. The planner is evaluated in various urban traffic scenarios based on real-world road network models provided by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Simulations show an average savings of 14.5% in fuel consumption with a corresponding increase of 2% in travel time using our method.
{"title":"Speed Trajectory Generation for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicles","authors":"Lung En Jan, Junfeng Zhao, Shunsuke Aoki, Anand Bhat, Chen-Fang Chang, R. Rajkumar","doi":"10.1115/DSCC2020-3148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/DSCC2020-3148","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) have real-time knowledge of the immediate driving environment, actions to be taken in the near future and information from the cloud. This knowledge, referred to as preview information, enables CAVs to drive safely, but can also be used to minimize fuel consumption. Such fuel-efficient transportation has the potential to reduce aggregate fuel consumption by billions of gallons of gas every year in the U.S. alone. In this paper, we propose a planning framework for use in CAVs with the goal of generating fuel-efficient vehicle trajectories. By utilizing on-board sensor data and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications, we leverage the computational power of CAVs to generate eco-friendly vehicle trajectories. The planner uses an eco-driver model and a predictive cost-based search to determine the optimal speed profile for use by a CAV. To evaluate the performance of the planner, we introduce a co-simulation environment consisting of a CAV simulator, Matlab/Simulink and a CAV software platform called the InfoRich Eco-Autonomous Driving (iREAD) system. The planner is evaluated in various urban traffic scenarios based on real-world road network models provided by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Simulations show an average savings of 14.5% in fuel consumption with a corresponding increase of 2% in travel time using our method.","PeriodicalId":41412,"journal":{"name":"Mechatronic Systems and Control","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88346896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The main focus of this work is to investigate the effect of weight on the stability of human squat exercise. The squat exercise is a common daily activity. Experiments are conducted using one human subject. A VICON motion analysis system integrated with Force Plates is utilized for these experiments. An experimental protocol is developed and followed. This work analyzes the time series of the normal component of the ground reaction forces and each coordinate of the center of pressure. These time series are used to estimate the Lyapunov Exponents using Rosenstein method. MATLAB software package is used for this investigation. The results of this work are compared with results from literature. Present work gives more information relating the safety of the squat exercise when adding additional weight. One can see that the effect of additional weight on stability depends on its value. In the cases of small and moderate additional weight the stability is the same or increases, while for the largest additional weight the investigated stability decreases.
{"title":"Effect of Additional Weight on Human Squat Exercise Stability: Ground Reaction Forces and Centers of Pressure","authors":"J. Galarza, D. Caruntu","doi":"10.1115/DSCC2020-3216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/DSCC2020-3216","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The main focus of this work is to investigate the effect of weight on the stability of human squat exercise. The squat exercise is a common daily activity. Experiments are conducted using one human subject. A VICON motion analysis system integrated with Force Plates is utilized for these experiments. An experimental protocol is developed and followed. This work analyzes the time series of the normal component of the ground reaction forces and each coordinate of the center of pressure. These time series are used to estimate the Lyapunov Exponents using Rosenstein method. MATLAB software package is used for this investigation. The results of this work are compared with results from literature. Present work gives more information relating the safety of the squat exercise when adding additional weight. One can see that the effect of additional weight on stability depends on its value. In the cases of small and moderate additional weight the stability is the same or increases, while for the largest additional weight the investigated stability decreases.","PeriodicalId":41412,"journal":{"name":"Mechatronic Systems and Control","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76505606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Efficient prediction of mode shape variation under uncertainties is important for design and control. While Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) is straightforward, it is computationally expensive and not feasible for complex structures with high dimensionalities. To address this issue, in this study we develop a multi-fidelity data fusion approach with an enhanced Gaussian process (GP) architecture to evaluate mode shape variation. Since the process to acquire high-fidelity data from full-scale physical model usually is costly, we involve an order-reduced model to rapidly generate a relatively large amount of low-fidelity data. Combining these with a small amount of high-fidelity data altogether, we can establish a Gaussian process meta-model and use it for efficient model shape prediction. This enhanced meta-model allows one to capture the intrinsic correlation of model shape amplitudes at different locations by incorporating a multi-response strategy. Comprehensive case studies are performed for methodology validation.
{"title":"Physics Based Multi-Fidelity Data Fusion for Efficient Characterization of Mode Shape Variation Under Uncertainties","authors":"K. Zhou, J. Tang","doi":"10.1115/DSCC2020-3199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1115/DSCC2020-3199","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Efficient prediction of mode shape variation under uncertainties is important for design and control. While Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) is straightforward, it is computationally expensive and not feasible for complex structures with high dimensionalities. To address this issue, in this study we develop a multi-fidelity data fusion approach with an enhanced Gaussian process (GP) architecture to evaluate mode shape variation. Since the process to acquire high-fidelity data from full-scale physical model usually is costly, we involve an order-reduced model to rapidly generate a relatively large amount of low-fidelity data. Combining these with a small amount of high-fidelity data altogether, we can establish a Gaussian process meta-model and use it for efficient model shape prediction. This enhanced meta-model allows one to capture the intrinsic correlation of model shape amplitudes at different locations by incorporating a multi-response strategy. Comprehensive case studies are performed for methodology validation.","PeriodicalId":41412,"journal":{"name":"Mechatronic Systems and Control","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80437371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}