This article investigates the problem of simultaneous attitude and vibration control of a flexible spacecraft to perform high precision attitude maneuvers and reduce vibrations caused by the flexible panel excitations in the presence of external disturbances, system uncertainties, and actuator faults. Adaptive integral sliding mode control is used in conjunction with an attitude actuator fault iterative learning observer (based on sliding mode) to develop an active fault tolerant algorithm considering rigid-flexible body dynamic interactions. The discontinuous structure of fault-tolerant control led to discontinuous commands in the control signal, resulting in chattering. This issue was resolved by introducing an adaptive rule for the sliding surface. Furthermore, the utilization of the sign function in the iterative learning observer for estimating actuator faults has not only enhanced its robustness to external disturbances through a straightforward design, but has also led to a decrease in computing workload. The strain rate feedback control algorithm has been employed with the use of piezoelectric sensor/actuator patches to minimize residual vibrations caused by rigid-flexible body dynamic interactions and the effect of attitude actuator faults. Lyapunov's law ensures finite-time overall system stability even with fully coupled rigid-flexible nonlinear dynamics. Numerical simulations demonstrate the performance and advantages of the proposed system compared to other conventional approaches.

A common method for controlling a group of parallel converters in decentralized control strategy structure in an island microgrid, the use is the droop-down characteristics of frequency ω-P and voltage E-Q. However, the problem with using this method is that the reactive power is not properly distributed (in proportion to the capacity of the micronutrients) between the micronutrients, which may lead to overload in the converters. Microgrids may also suffer from dynamic stability problems such as power fluctuations, which can be increased by switching between active and reactive power control. To avoid this problem, the X / R ratio of transmission lines is an important parameter that should be carefully considered in the design of micronutrient controllers. By linearizing and simplifying conditions, the control system conversion function model becomes a single input-single output system, which is efficient enough to show the relationship between control parameters such as slope of droop characteristics and derivative sentences, virtual impedance, and voltage controllers. Using this model, stability conditions for different parameters are analyzed. Also, to improve power distribution stability, common droop strategies are modified by adjusting the slope as well as adding nonlinear sentence sections. This approach reduces the coupling between active and reactive power control and reduces the dependence of power distribution on grid parameters such as the X / R ratio. To evaluate the reliability of the proposed model, the simulation results in a sample island microgrid in MATLAB software are presented.

This paper describes a vehicle speed & vehicle-to-vehicle distance control algorithm for vehicle stop-and-go cruise control. So first, a complete dynamic model of car has been simulated that consists of an SI engine, automatic transmission. The vehicle longitudinal control scheme consists of a speed control algorithm and a distance control algorithm and throttle-brake control law. A desired acceleration for the vehicle has been designed using linear quadratic optimal control theory. It has been shown that the proposed control law provides good performance.

In this paper a semi-active structural damage control strategy using MR dampers and Neural Networks is presented. A multilayer feed-forward neural network has been designed. The input layer is relative displacement of stories and the output layer is the voltage needed for MR damper. The neural network is learned to predict the voltage needed for MR damper that can minimize the Park & Ang damage index of structure. Genetic algorithm has been used to learn the neural network. The Park & Ang damage index of the structure has been used as the fittnees function of the genetic algorithm. To evaluate the structural control system a nonlinear 3 story benchmark building has been selected. The results show the the proposed structural control system can effectively reduce the Park & Ang damage index of the structure.

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A novel nonlinear controller is proposed to track active and reactive power for a Brushless Doubly-Fed Induction Generator (BDFIG) wind turbine. Due to nonlinear dynamics and the presence of parametric uncertainties and perturbations in this system, sliding mode control is employed. To generate a smooth control signal, dynamic sliding mode method is used. Uncertainties bound is not required in the suggested algorithm, since the adaptive gain in the controller relation is used in this study. Convergence of the sliding variable to zero and adaptive gain to the uncertainty bound are verified using Lyapunov stability theorem. The proposed controller is evaluated in a comprehensive simulation on the BDFIG model. Moreover, output performance of the proposed control algorithm is compared to the conventional and second-order sliding mode and proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers.