Simple Kinematic Design for Evading the Forced Oscillation of a Car-Wheel Suspension System

An adaptive control damping the forced vibration of a car while passing along a bumpy road is investigated. It is based on a simple kinematic description of the desired behavior of the damped system. A modified PID controller containing an approximation of Caputo’s fractional derivative suppresses the high-frequency components related to the bumps and dips, while the low frequency part of passing hills/valleys are strictly traced. Neither a complete dynamic model of the car nor ’a priori’ information on the surface of the road is needed. The adaptive control realizes this kinematic design in spite of the existence of dynamically coupled, excitable internal degrees of freedom. The method is investigated via Scicos-based simulation in the case of a paradigm. It was found that both adaptivity and fractional order derivatives are essential parts of the control that can keep the vibration of the load at bay without directly controlling its motion.

Recent droughts and the impact of North Atlantic Oscillation in Iberia; a spatiotemporal analysis based on vegetation temperature condition Index (VTCI)

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies.

Microphysical evidence of the transition between predominant convective/stratiform rainfall associated with the intraseasonal oscillation in the Southwest Amazon

The distinction between convective and stratiform precipitation profiles around various precipitating systems existent in tropical regions is very important to the global atmospheric circulation, which is extremely sensitive to vertical latent heat distribution. In South America, the convective activity responds to the Intraseasonal Oscillation (IOS). This paper analyzes a disdrometer and a radar profiler data, installed in the Ji-Paraná airport, RO, Brazil, for the field experiment WETAMC/LBA & TRMM/LBA, during January and February of 1999. The microphysical analysis of wind regimes associated with IOS showed a large difference in type, size and microphysical processes of hydrometeor growth in each wind regime: easterly regimes had more turbulence and consequently convective precipitation formation, and westerly regimes had a more stratiform precipitation formation.

Studies of Central American plants. by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark.

v.23:no.3(1944)

Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark.

v.24:pt.3(1952)

Flora of Guatemala / by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark.

v.24:pt.1(1958)

Studies of Central American plants. by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark.

v.22:no.5(1940)

Studies of Central American plants. by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark.

v.23:no.4(1944)

Studies of the vegetation of Missouri ... / By Julian A. Steyermark.

v.9:no.6(1941)

Studies of Central American plants. by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark.

v.23:no.2(1944)

Studies of Central American plants. by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark.

v.23:no.1(1943)

Studies of Central American plants. by Paul C. Standley and Julian A. Steyermark.

v.23:no.5(1947)

Studies of the American flora - I / By Julian A. Steyermark.

v.17:no.5(1938)