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A performance comparison between two design techniques for non-linear output feedback control
No full textFor a system possessing a non-linear output feedback normal form, an observer backstepping design is compared to a high gain observer design with respect to non-singular performance cost functional. If the initial error between the initial condition of the state and the initial condition of the observer is large, the high gain observer design is shown to have better performance than the observer backstepping design. An output feedback system with parametric uncertainty is then considered. It is shown that if an a priori estimate for the bound of the uncertain parameter is conservative, then an adaptive observer backstepping design has better performance than the adaptive high gain observer design
Towards a performance theory of robust adaptive control
No full textWe consider standard robust adaptive control designs based on the dead-zone and projection modifications, and compare their performance w.r.t. a worst case transient cost functional penalising the L∞ norm of the output, control and control derivative. If a bound on the L∞ norm of the disturbance is known, it is shown that the dead-zone controller outperforms the projection controller if the a-priori information on the uncertainty level is sufficiently conservative. The second result shows that the projection controller is superior to the dead-zone controller when the a-priori information on the disturbance level is sufficiently conservative. For conceptual clarity the results are presented on a nonlinear scalar system with a single uncertain parameter and generalisations are briefly discussed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
LQ performance bounds for adaptive output feedback controllers for functionally uncertain systems
No full textVariations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Adaptive control and robustness in the gap metric
No full textWe consider the construction of adaptive controllers for minimum phase linear systems which achieve non-zero robustness margins in the sense of the gap metric. The gap perturbation margin may be more constrained for larger disturbances and for larger parametric uncertainties. Working in an L2 setting, and within the framework of the nonlinear gap metric, universal adaptive controllers are first given achieving stabilisation for first order nominal plants, and the results are then generalised to relative degree one nominal plants. Necessary asymptotic properties of the robustness margins are derived for the class of controllers considered. Extensions to the Linfty setting are also developed where two alternative designs are given. A notion of a semi universal control design is introduced, which is the property that a bound on performance exists which is independent of the a-priori known uncertainty level, and a characterisation is given for when semi-universal designs outperform the class of memoryless controllers and the class of LTI controllers. Robust semi-universal adaptive control designs are given for nominal plants under the classical assumptions of adaptive control in both the L2 and Linfty settings. The results are applied throughout to explicit classes of unmodelled dynamics including the Rohrs example
An Analytical Comparison of the Weighted LQ Performance of a Robust and an Adaptive Backstepping Design
No full textAppropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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