Temperature distribution and dynamic control of secondary cooling in slab continuous casting

To predict and optimize the temperature distribution of slab continuous casting in steady operational state, a three-dimensional model （named ＂offline model＂） based on the heat transfer and solidification theories was developed. Both heat transfer and flux distribution characteristics of the nozzle sprays on the slab were considered, and the complicated boundary conditions, such as spray cooling, natural convection, thermal radiation as well as contact cooling of individual rolls were involved in the model. By using the calibrated caster dependent model factors, the calculated temperature and shell thickness accorded well with the measured. Furthermore, a dynamic secondary water cooling control system was also developed on the basis of a two-dimensional transient heat transfer model （named ＂online model＂） and incremental PID control algorithm to reduce slab surface temperature fluctuation in unsteady state. Compared with the traditional spray table control method, the present online model and dynamic PID control demonstrate a higher capability and flexibility to adjust cooling water flowrate and reduce slab surface temperature fluctuation when the casting speed is changed.

STABILITY ANALYSES ON DYNAMIC CONTROL FOR A MOVING BODY LEVITATED MAGNETICALLY OVER ELASTIC GUIDEWAYS

Based on the Floquet theory on ordinary differential equationswith periodically variable coefficients and the bifurcation approachto nonlinear equations, a numerical approach to determining thestability region of control parameters is established for a dynamiccontrol system composed of a moving body levitated magnetically overflexible guideways. The system is nonlinearly coupled among theelastic deformation of guideways, disturbance the levitation positionof the body and electromagnet- ic control forces.

From the new Austrian tunneling method to the geoengineering condition evaluation and dynamic controlling method

The new Austrian tunneling method （NATM） is widely applied in design and construction of underground engineering projects. When the type and distribution of unfavorable geological bodies （UGBs） associated with their influences on geoengineering are complicated or unfortunately are overlooked, we should pay more attentions to internal features of rocks grades IV and V （even in local but mostly controlling zones）. With increasing attentions to the characteristics, mechanism and influences of engineering construction-triggered geohazards, it is crucial to fully understand the disturbance of these geohazards on project construction. A reasonable determination method in construction procedure, i.e. the shape of working face, the type of engineering support and the choice of feasible procedure, should be considered in order to mitigate the construction-triggered geohazards. Due to their high sensitivity to groundwater and in-situ stress, various UGBs exhibit hysteretic nature and failure modes. To give a complete understanding on the internal causes, the emphasis on advanced comprehensive geological forecasting and overall reinforcement treatment is therefore of more practical significance. Compre- hensive evaluation of influential factors, identification of UGB, and measures of discontinuity dynamic controlling comprises the geoengineering condition evaluation and dynamic controlling method. In a case of a cut slope, the variations of UGBs and the impacts of key environmental factors are presented, where more severe construction-triggered geohazards emerged in construction stage than those predicted in design and field investigation stages. As a result, the weight ratios of different influential factors with respect to field investigation, design and construction are obtained.

An on-line constraint softening strategy to guarantee the feasibility of dynamic controller in double-layered MPC

A double-layered model predictive control(MPC), which is composed of a steady-state target calculation(SSTC)layer and a dynamic control layer, is a prevailing hierarchical structure in industrial process control. Based on the reason analysis of the dynamic controller infeasibility, an on-line constraints softening strategy is given. At first, a series of regions of attraction(ROA) of the dynamic controller is calculated according to the softened constraints;then a minimal ROA containing the current state is chosen and the corresponding softened constraint is adopted by the dynamic controller. Note that, the above measures are performed on-line because the centers of the above ROA are the steady-state targets calculated at each instant. The effectiveness of the presented strategy is illustrated through two examples.

Dynamic control analysis of interconnected pressure-swing distillation process with and without heat integration for separating azeotrope

Dynamic controls of pressure-swing distillation with an intermediate connection(PSDIC) process of ethyl acetate and ethanol separation were investigated.The double temperature/composition cascade control structure can perfectly implement effective control when ±20% feed disturbances were introduced.This control structure did not require the control of the flowrate of the side stream.The dynamic controllability of PSDIC with partial heat integration(PHIPSDIC) was also explored.The improved control structure can effectively control ±20% feed disturbances.However,in industrial production,simple controller,sensitive and easy to operate,is the optimal target.To avoid the use of component controllers or complex control structure,the original product purities could be maintained using the basic control structure for the PSDIC process if the product purities in steady state were properly increased,albeit by incurring a slight rise in the total annual cost(TAC).This alternative method without a composition controller combined with the energy-saving PSDIC process provides a simple and effective control scheme in industrial production.

Gas dynamic control of properties of welded joints from high strength alloyed steels

Gas dynamic control in welding with consumable electrode in conditions of two-jet gas shielding and its impact on the processes in the welding area and properties of the welded joints from high strength alloyed steel 30HGSA is considered in the paper. The results of a comparative experimental study of controlling the properties of welded joints by changing the gas dynamics of the active shielding gas are given. The impact force of a shielding gas jet on the drop of the electrode metal is 12 times higher in conditions of two-jet gas shielding than in those of single jet shielding. It is found that gas dynamics of the active shielding gas jet determines the formation of the welded joints, their chemical properties and the properties of the welded joints from high strength alloyed steels. The consumable electrode welding method with two-jet gas shielding provides controlled dynamics in the welding area and allows controlling the transfer of the electrode metal, chemical composition of the weld, stabilizing the welding process, it ensures higher mechanical properties of the welded joints.

Dynamic Controls on the Formation of Mantle Plume Beneath the South China Sea Region

The South China Sea(SCS)has attracted intensive structural and geophysical research over the past decades,with a focus on its extensional history and relevant dynamic tectonic models.Seismic tomographic images obtained

Combined Control Allocation and Sliding Mode Control in the Dynamic Control of a Vehicle with Eight In-Wheel Motors

An eight wheel independently driving steering（8 WIDBS）electric vehicle is studied in this paper.The vehicle is equipped with eight in-wheel motors and a steer-by-wire system.A hierarchically coordinated vehicle dynamic control（HCVDC）system,including a high-level vehicle motion controller,a control allocation,an inverse tire model and a lower-level slip/slip angle controller,is proposed for the over-actuated vehicle system.The high-level sliding mode vehicle motion controller is designed to produce desired total forces and yaw moment,distributed to longitudinal and lateral forces of each tire by an advanced control allocation method.And the slip controller is designed to use a sliding mode control method to follow the desired slip ratios by manipulating the corresponding in-wheel motor torques.Evaluation of the overall system is accomplished by sine maneuver simulation.Simulation results confirm that the proposed control system can coordinate among the redundant and constrained actuators to achieve the vehicle dynamic control task and improve the vehicle stability.

Nonlinear Theory on Dynamic Controlling Interface Patterns DuringSolidification of a Dilute Binary Alloy

In non-equilibrium nonlinear region, the nonlinear equations of time dependence of perturbation amplitude at the solid/liquidinterface during solidification of a dilute binary alloy are established on the base of assuming that there is local equilibrium at the solid/liquid interface and considering that curvature, temperature and composition at the solid/liquid interface which are related to the perturbation amplitude are nonlinear. As a result, patterns at the solid/liquid interface during solidification process, which is from nonsteadystate to steady state can be controlled by these nonlinear equations.

Dynamic Control of Defective Gap Mode Through Defect Location

A one dimensional model is developed for defective gap mode（DGM）with two types of boundary conditions：conducting mesh and conducting sleeve.For a periodically modulated system without defect,the normalized width of spectral gaps equals to the modulation factor,which is consistent with previous studies.For a periodic system with local defects introduced by the boundary conditions,it shows that the conducting-mesh-induced DGM is always well confined by spectral gaps while the conducting-sleeve-induced DGM is not.The defect location can be a useful tool to dynamically control the frequency and spatial periodicity of DGM inside spectral gaps.This controllability can be potentially applied to the interaction between gap eigenmodes and energetic particles in fusion plasmas,and optical microcavities and waveguides in photonic crystals.

Dynamic Control System of Automatic Monitoring Equipment for Waste Gas Pollution Source

In order to improve the quality of automatic monitoring data of pollution sources and apply the automatic monitoring data to verify the environmental tax,Shandong Province took the lead in adopting the Internet of Things technology and drawing on the successful experience of air automatic monitoring stations and surface water automatic monitoring stations in management,and developed a dynamic management and control system for automatic monitoring equipment of pollution sources to improve and strengthen the quality audit of automatic monitoring data,further improve the quality of automatic monitoring data and better provide a basis for environmental management and decision making.The system realizes the simultaneous monitoring of monitoring data,running state and parameters of the automatic monitoring equipment,eliminates the phenomenon of falsification by modifying equipment parameters,and judges the validity of the collected data by acquiring the working state of the equipment remotely and randomly.After the actual operation test of the Department of Ecological Environment of Shandong Province,the system is proved to have the characteristics of practicality,real time and high efficiency,and be able to make up for low frequency and narrow coverage of manual inspection,with good application prospect in the field of environment and pollution source monitoring.

Dynamic Constraint-Driven Event-Triggered Control of Strict-Feedback Systems Without Max/Min Values on Irregular Constraints

This work proposes an event-triggered adaptive control approach for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems under irregular constraints.Unlike the constraints considered in most existing papers,here the external irregular constraints are considered and a constraints switching mechanism(CSM)is introduced to circumvent the difficulties arising from irregular output constraints.Based on the CSM,a new class of generalized barrier functions are constructed,which allows the control results to be independent of the maximum and minimum values(MMVs)of constraints and thus extends the existing results.Finally,we proposed a novel dynamic constraint-driven event-triggered strategy(DCDETS),under which the stress on signal transmission is reduced greatly and no constraints are violated by making a dynamic trade-off among system state,external constraints,and inter-execution intervals.It is proved that the system output is driven to close to the reference trajectory and the semi-global stability is guaranteed under the proposed control scheme,regardless of the external irregular output constraints.Simulation also verifies the effectiveness and benefits of the proposed method.

Advances in the dynamic control of metabolic pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The metabolic engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae has great potential for enhancing the production of high-value chemicals and recombinant proteins.Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of dynamic regu-lation as a strategy for optimizing metabolic flux and improving production efficiency.In this review,we provide an overview of recent advancements in the dynamic regulation of S.cerevisiae metabolism.Here,we focused on the successful utilization of transcription factor(TF)-based biosensors within the dynamic regulatory network of S.cerevisiae.These biosensors are responsive to a wide range of endogenous and exogenous signals,including chemical inducers,light,temperature,cell density,intracellular metabolites,and stress.Additionally,we ex-plored the potential of omics tools for the discovery of novel responsive promoters and their roles in fine-tuning metabolic networks.We also provide an outlook on the development trends in this field.

Dynamic event-triggered formation control of second-order nonholonomic systems

In this paper,the formation control problem of secondorder nonholonomic mobile robot systems is investigated in a dynamic event-triggered scheme.Event-triggered control protocols combined with persistent excitation(PE)conditions are presented.In event-detecting processes,an inactive time is introduced after each sampling instant,which can ensure a positive minimum sampling interval.To increase the flexibility of the event-triggered scheme,internal dynamic variables are included in event-triggering conditions.Moreover,the dynamic event-triggered scheme plays an important role in increasing the lengths of time intervals between any two consecutive events.In addition,event-triggered control protocols without forward and angular velocities are also presented based on approximate-differentiation(low-pass)filters.The asymptotic convergence results are given based on a nested Matrosov theorem and artificial sampling methods.

Robust missile autopilot design based on dynamic surface control

Since the dynamical system and control system of the missile are typically nonlinear, an effective acceleration tracking autopilot is designed using the dynamic surface control(DSC)technique in order to make the missile control system more robust despite the uncertainty of the dynamical parameters and the presence of disturbances. Firstly, the nonlinear mathematical model of the tail-controlled missile is decomposed into slow acceleration dynamics and fast pitch rate dynamics based on the naturally existing time scale separation. Secondly, the controller based on DSC is designed after obtaining the linear dynamics characteristics of the slow and fast subsystems. An extended state observer is used to detect the uncertainty of the system state variables and aerodynamic parameters to achieve the compensation of the control law. The closed-loop stability of the controller is derived and rigorously analyzed. Finally, the effectiveness and robustness of the design is verified by Monte Carlo simulation considering different initial conditions and parameter uptake. Simulation results illustrate that the missile autopilot based DSC controller achieves better performance and robustness than the other two well-known autopilots.The method proposed in this paper is applied to the design of a missile autopilot, and the results show that the acceleration tracking autopilot based on the DSC controller can ensure accurate tracking of the required commands and has better performance.

Fixed-Time Stabilization of a Class of Strict-Feedback Nonlinear Systems via Dynamic Gain Feedback Control

This paper presents a novel fixed-time stabilization control(FSC)method for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems involving unmodelled system dynamics.The key feature of the proposed method is the design of two dynamic parameters.Specifically,a set of auxiliary variables is first introduced through state transformation.These variables combine the original system states and the two introduced dynamic parameters,facilitating the closed-loop system stability analyses.Then,the two dynamic parameters are delicately designed by utilizing the Lyapunov method,ensuring that all the closed-loop system states are globally fixed-time stable.Compared with existing results,the“explosion of complexity”problem of backstepping control is avoided.Moreover,the two designed dynamic parameters are dependent on system states rather than a time-varying function,thus the proposed controller is still valid beyond the given fixedtime convergence instant.The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through two practical systems.

The H_∞ synchronization of nonlinear Bloch systems via dynamic feedback control approach

We consider an H∞ synchronization problem in nonlinear Bloch systems. Based on Lyapunov stability theory and linear matrix inequality formulation, a dynamic feedback controller is designed to guarantee asymptotic stability of the master-slave synchronization. Moreover, this controller reduces the effect of an external disturbance to the H∞ norm constraint. A numerical example is given to validate the proposed synchronization scheme.

Emotion detection on webpages using biosensors integrated to a window-based dynamic control system

Purpose-Detecting emotion on user experience of web applications and browsing is important in many ways.Web designers and developers find such approach quite useful in enhancing navigational features of webpages,and biomedical personnel regularly use computer simulations to monitor and control the behaviour of patients.On the other hand,law enforcement agents rely on human physiological functions to determine the likelihood of falsehood in interrogations.Quite often,online user experience is studied via tangible measures such as task completion time,surveys and comprehensive tests from which data attributes are generated.Prediction of users’emotion and behaviour in some of these cases depends mostly on task completion time and number of clicks per given time interval.However,such approaches are generally subjective and rely heavily on distributional assumptions making the results prone to recording errors.Design/methodology/approach-The authors propose a novel method-a window dynamic control system that addresses the foregoing issues.Primary data were obtained from laboratory experiments during which forty-four volunteers had their synchronised physiological readings,skin conductance response(SCR),skin temperature(ST),eye movement behaviour and users’activity attributes taken using biosensors.The windowbased dynamic control system(PHYCOB I)is integrated to the biosensor which collects secondary data attributes from these synchronised physiological readings and uses them for two purposes.For both detection of optimal emotional responses and users’stress levels.The method’s novelty derives from its ability to integrate physiological readings and eye movement records to identify hidden correlates on a webpage.Findings-Results show that the control system detects basic emotions and outperforms other conventional models in terms of both accuracy and reliability,when subjected to model comparison that is,the average recoverable natural structures for the three models with respect to accuracy and reliability are more consistent within the window-based control system environment than with the conventional methods.Research limitations/implications-The paper is limited to using a window control system to detect emotions on webpages,while integrated to biosensors and eye-tracker.Originality/value-The originality of the proposed model is its resistance to overfitting and its ability to automatically assess human emotion(stress levels)while dealing with specific web contents.The latter is particularly important in that it can be used to predict which contents of webpages cause stress-induced emotions to users when involved in online activities.

Optimized Model Based Controller with Model Plant Mismatch for NMP Mitigation in Boost Converter

In this paper,an optimized Genetic Algorithm(GA)based internal model controller-proportional integral derivative(IMC-PID)controller has been designed for the control variable to output variable transfer function of dc-dc boost converter to mitigate the effect of non-minimum phase(NMP)behavior due to the presence of a right-half plane zero(RHPZ).This RHPZ limits the dynamic performance of the converter and leads to internal instability.The IMC PID is a streamlined counterpart of the standard feedback controller and easily achieves optimal set point and load change performance with a single filter tuning parameterλ.Also,this paper addresses the influences of the model-based controller with model plant mismatch on the closed-loop control.The conventional IMC PID design is realized as an optimization problem with a resilient controller being determined through a genetic algorithm.Computed results suggested that GA–IMC PID coheres to the optimum designs with a fast convergence rate and outperforms conventional IMC PID controllers.

Adaptive Dynamic Surface Control for Integrated Missile Guidance and Autopilot

Integrated guidance and control for homing missiles utilizing adaptive dynamic surface control approach is considered based on the three channels independence design idea. A time-varying integrated guidance and control model with unmatched uncertainties is first formulated for the pitch channel, and an adaptive dynamic surface control algorithm is further developed to deal with these unmatched uncertainties. It is proved that the proposed feedback controller can ensure not only the accuracy of target interception, but also the stability of the missile dynamics. Then, the same control approach is further applied to the control design of the yaw and roll channels. The 6-degree-of-freedom （6-DOF） nonlinear missile simulation results demonstrate the feasibility and advantage of the proposed integrated guidance and control design scheme.