Impact of prescription drug diversion control systems on medical practice and patient care /

Mode of access: Internet.

On the optimum synthesis of multipole control systems in the Wiener sense

ASTIA Document no. AD 212 466

Manual on installation of refinery instruments and control systems.

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The use of digital techniques for flight control; a discussion prepared for SAE Committee A-18 on Aerospace Vehicle Flight Control Systems.

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On adaptive control systems,

At head of title: Microwave Research Institute, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Systems and Control Group, R-735, PIB-663, contract no. DA-30-069-ORD-1560.

The air quality and economic implications of supplementary control systems in Illinois /

Bibliography: p. 90-92.

Traffic control systems in construction workzones /

"Final Report, November 1997-October 1999."

Energy monitoring and control systems (EMCS).

"January 1991."

Diversion and corridor control systems in Western Europe /

Preprint of IRF report, issued June 1977.

Sampled-data control systems /

Includes bibliography.

Control of aircraft and missile powerplants; an introduction to the analysis and design of engine control systems

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Functional analysis of a real-time protocol for networked control systems

Traditional real-time control systems are tightly integrated into the industrial processes they govern. Now, however, there is increasing interest in networked control systems. These provide greater flexibility and cost savings by allowing real-time controllers to interact with industrial processes over existing communications networks. New data packet queuing protocols are currently being developed to enable precise real-time control over a network with variable propagation delays. We show how one such protocol was formally modelled using timed automata, and how model checking was used to reveal subtle aspects of the control system's dynamic behaviour.

Middleware for distributed context-aware systems

Context-aware systems represent extremely complex and heterogeneous distributed systems, composed of sensors, actuators, application components, and a variety of context processing components that manage the flow of context information between the sensors/actuators and applications. The need for middleware to seamlessly bind these components together is well recognised. Numerous attempts to build middleware or infrastructure for context-aware systems have been made, but these have provided only partial solutions; for instance, most have not adequately addressed issues such as mobility, fault tolerance or privacy. One of the goals of this paper is to provide an analysis of the requirements of a middleware for context-aware systems, drawing from both traditional distributed system goals and our experiences with developing context-aware applications. The paper also provides a critical review of several middleware solutions, followed by a comprehensive discussion of our own PACE middleware. Finally, it provides a comparison of our solution with the previous work, highlighting both the advantages of our middleware and important topics for future research.

A novel approach to modelling and exploiting uncertainty in stochastic control systems

We consider an inversion-based neurocontroller for solving control problems of uncertain nonlinear systems. Classical approaches do not use uncertainty information in the neural network models. In this paper we show how we can exploit knowledge of this uncertainty to our advantage by developing a novel robust inverse control method. Simulations on a nonlinear uncertain second order system illustrate the approach.