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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 5Nonlinear systems
- 1Carbon dioxide capture
- 1Chemical processes
- 1Distributed state estimation
- 1Event-based control
- 1Event-triggered control
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Fall 2014
Large-scale complex chemical processes increasingly appear in the modern process industry due to their economic efficiency. Such a large-scale complex chemical process usually consists of several unit operations (subsystems), which are connected together through material and energy flows. Because...
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Fall 2016
Event-triggered control have increasingly become an active area of research in the last decade, thanks to their potential capability in reducing data communication between subsystems during control action. In this research we tackle some practical problems encountered in this field and endeavor...
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Spring 2011
Optimal experiment design has been considered as an effective tool to improve model reliability and accuracy in nonlinear system identification in the past few decades. This thesis is concerned with the following challenges which have not been previously addressed: poor initial guess problem of...
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Fall 2022
Increasingly faced with sustainability and profitability objectives, chemical process plants have become very complex with many operating constraints. To achieve these objectives, a high level of automation is required. Unfortunately, the ability of the automated controllers to ensure that the...
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Spring 2014
This thesis concerns with a common practical problem in the area of sampled-data control systems where the plant is described by nonlinear dynamics and input and output signals are sampled at different rates. We first follow the continuous-time (emulation) approach to propose a general...