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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
- 2Nonlinear control
- 1Boundary Observer
- 1Disturbance observer
- 1Event-based control
- 1Event-triggered control
- 1Linear matrix inequality
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Fall 2011
Employing disturbance observers is an effective way of enhancing the stability and performance of the control systems subject to disturbances. Disturbance observers have been extensively used for control of mechatronic systems since their introduction in the 1980s. This thesis studies the...
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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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PDE Backstepping Boundary Observer Design with Application to Thermal Management of PCR Process in Lab-on-a-Chip Devices
DownloadFall 2013
In the past two decades, the idea of Lab-on-a-Chip (LOC) devices has received a growing attention from researchers. A Lab-on-a-Chip device can be thought of as a miniaturized biological microchip that integrates several functionalities such as sample pre-treatment, sample transportation, mixing,...
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System modeling and controller designs for a Peltier-based thermal device in microfluidic application
DownloadSpring 2010
A custom-made Peltier-based thermal device is designed to perform miniaturized bio-molecular reactions in a microfluidic platform for medical diagnostic tests, especially the polymerase chain reaction for DNA amplification. The cascaded two-stage device is first approximated by multiple local...