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Control of velocity for a linear actuator

Silas Kull

This project was done in the laboratory of integrated actuators (LAI) during the first master semester. It is part of a PhD-work with linear actuators, also called relays, where these actuators are optimized in design and equipped with a speed control duri ...

2010

Multi-Objective Design and Optimisation of Urban Energy Systems

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Céline Weber

Product Description Inspired by the leading authority in the field, the Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London, this book includes theoretical developments, algorithms, methodologies and tools in process systems engineering and a ...

Wiley2008

Stochastic Simulation of Occupant Presence and Behaviour in Buildings

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jessen Page, Darren Robinson

While most current building simulation tools consider occupants as predictable robots the true nature of human behaviour is more complex. This article describes a set of stochastic models aimed at capturing this complexity by decoupling occupant presence f ...

2007

Design and Control of an Indoor Coaxial Helicopter

Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari

This paper presents the design and preliminary control of an indoor coaxial helicopter �CoaX� based on a concept of hybrid active and passive control. The robot is capable of passive roll and pitch stabilization against small disturbances while a ...

2006

What works and what doesn't with BOT contracts? The case of thermal and hydraulic plants

Matthias Finger, Nicolas Crettenand

Private financing and operations of public infrastructures – often also called Public-Private Partnerships or PPPs – are becoming increasingly important, especially in the case of developing countries. Different types of PPP instruments – among which in pa ...

EPFL-CDM-MIR2005

Load sensing and related control system for the articulated transporter of JET

The paper describes the "electronic" stiffening of the actuators developed for the articulated boom of JET. Experimental trials on a two joints Boom have confirmed the improvements of speed and reliability that can be achieved. Based on these developments, ...

1995

First and Second Law Based Fuel Minimization in a Batch Furnace.

This paper presents results for the minimization of fuel consumption in a batch furnace. Several different criteria are used and minimized with respect to time-dependent process and control variables. The results show that globally there is no significant ...

1995

Actuators and control for teleoperators

The design of a mechatronic system in an industrial context is alwais affected by cost. Either the performances have to be optimized for a given cost or the cost must be minimized for the given performances. ...

1993

Minimum Energy Adaptive Structures – All-In-One Problem Implementation

Gennaro Senatore, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Yafeng Wang

This paper presents new implementations of a design method to obtain minimum energy adaptive structures. The design method was formulated in previous work [1, 2] for reticular structures equipped with sensors (e.g. strain, optical) and linear actuators. Th ...