• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.311-318
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• 1988

An adaptive control problem for a plant with unmodelled dynamics is studied. The upper bounds of the output due to the unmodelled dynamics and measurement noise is assumed to be known. This problem was studied by Middleton et al. They used a modified form of the least square method in estimating the plant paramaters. In this paper, the bounds of the parameters are estimated by linear programming and the parameters are estimated by the projetion type algorithm incorporating the bounds of the parameters. The stability of the proposed adaptive control system can be proved in nearly the same way as the proof of Middleton. The performance of the proposed method is found to be much better than the method of Midlleton's with respect to the parameter convergence and plant output in computer simulations.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.317-323
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• 2018

BACKGROUND: This study was conducted to evaluate the water-dispersible clay content of paddy soils over the country in the summer rainy season as affected by cultivated years using heavy agro-machinery and soil properties such as texture and exchangeable sodium percentage. METHODS AND RESULTS: Water-dispersible clay content of 16 soil series of Korean paddy soils over the country were investigated in summer rainy season from July to August, 2006 by Middleton's method. Water-dispersible clay content ranged from non-detected to 4.8%, showing maximum value from the fine textured soils and high clay dispersibility in average from the coarse textured soils. Longer cultivated years using agro-machinery more than 40 hp result in higer water-dispersible clay content for 60% of studied paddy soils with less than 5% of exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP). Exceptionally, soils with relatively big difference of ESP at about 10 percent showed higher water-dispersible clay content with higher ESP. CONCLUSION: Long years of cultivation using agro-machinery with more than 40 hp enhanced water-dispersiblility of clay in approximately 60% of the studied paddy fields except for salt-affected soils.