• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.42-52
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• 1992

가변구조 제어시스템(variable structure control system)을 위해 제안된 기존의 대부분 슬라이딩 서피스 (sliding surface)는 주어진 초기조건과 무관하게 설계되었으며, 서피스 계수 또는 임의로 설정되었다. 이러한 서피스를 갖는 제어시스템은 슬라이딩 운동이 일어나기 전까지 외란등에 매우 민감하며 또한 느린 추적시간 (tracking time)을 초래한다. 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위해 본 연구에서는 임의로 주어진 초기조건을 항상지나 며 시간에 따라 기울기 및 절편이 변하는 새로운 슬라이딩 서피스를 설계하였다. 이 서피스와 연계된 제어시스 템의 슬라이딩 모드(sliding mode) 존재성을 증명하였고, 서피스의 움직임 절차를 상세히 기술하였다. 2차 선형 시스템과 2자유도계 로봇의 추적제어를 통해 제안된 방법의 효율성과 우수성을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1998.07b
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• pp.546-548
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• 1998

초음파는 초음파 가공기나 초음파 세척기 등에 많이 이용되고 최근 액추에트로서 초음파 전동기가 주목을 받고 있다. 압전 혹은 자기비틀림 효과를 이용하여 얻는 초음파 진동기는 전기-기계 변환효율이 다른 수단에 비하여 매우 높으므로 이것을 이용하여 얻는 초음파 진동은 왕복운동에서 직선 혹은 회전운동으로 변환시키는 연구가 행해지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 진행파 방식의 초음파 전동기를 중심으로 그 회전 원리를 이해하고 모델링 하였다. 외란에 대하여 강인한 제어방식으로 알려져 있는 가변구조제어의 이론을 이해고 회전형 진행파 방식의 초음파 전동기를 이용한 가변구조, 제어에 의한 서보계를 설계한다. 이때 제어방법은 속도패턴을 미리 정하여 두고 그 패턴에 따라 슬라이딩 모드를 사용하여 속도를 제어하여 위치를 제어하는 것이다. 초음파 전동기의 가변구조제어에 의한 위치제어를 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션으로 검토하고 제어 파라미터를 결정하였다. 그리고 인터페이스 보드를 제작하고 컴퓨터와 전동기를 접속하여 실제 제어 알고리즘을 이용하여 초음파 전동기의 제어 실험을 행하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.1312-1314
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• 2000

In this paper, voltage control APF(Active Power Filter) is introduced to improve power factor and reduce harmonic, generated from nonlinear load. The voltage controlled APF which is consisted of inverter and passive filter operates with nonlinear load simultaneously. According to the results of simulation, it is proved that the proposed system has the performance of improving power factor and reducing harmonics.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.263-264
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• 2015

태양광 발전용 PCS(Power Conditioning System)의 성능을 평가를 위해 사용되는 PV Simulator는 전압제어방식 또는 전류제어방식으로 제어할 수 있다. 각각의 제어방식을 개별적으로 개방전압 운전점에서 단락전류 운전점까지 부하를 가변 하였을 때 서로 상반된 구간에서 불안정한 구간이 발생한 것을 실험을 통해 발견하였다. 이렇게 불안정한 제어 구간에서는 PV Simulator의 출력 전압과 전류가 심하게 바운싱되기 때문에 전 운전 범위에서 PCS의 성능평가를 하는데 제한이 있을 뿐만 아니라, 하드웨어에도 손상을 줄 수 있다. 본 논문은 전압제어방식과 전류제어방식이 각각 안정한 제어 구간에서 불안정한 제어 구간으로 이동되기 전에 히스테리시스 가변 구조로 제어함으로써 두 제어방식의 장점을 극대화 시킨 PV Simulator 제어기를 제안한다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.843-847
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• 2011

In this note, a proof of Utkin's theorem is presented for the SI(Single Input) uncertain integral linear case. The invariance theorem with respect to the two transformation methods so called the two diagonalization methods are proved clearly and comparatively for SI uncertain integral linear systems. With respect to the sliding surface transformation, the equation of the sliding mode, the sliding surface is invariant. Both the applied control inputs have the same gains. By means of the two transformation methods the same results can be obtained. Through an illustrative example and simulation study, the usefulness of the main results is verified.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.219-233
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• 2014

In a companion paper, Pasala and Nagarajaiah analytically and experimentally validate the Adaptive Length Pendulum Smart Tuned Mass Damper (ALP-STMD) on a primary structure (2 story steel structure) whose frequencies are time invariant (Pasala and Nagarajaiah 2012). In this paper, the ALP-STMD effectiveness on a primary structure whose frequencies are time varying is studied experimentally. This study experimentally validates the ability of an ALP-STMD to adequately control a structural system in the presence of real time changes in primary stiffness that are detected by a real time observer based system identification. The experiments implement the newly developed Adaptive Length Pendulum Smart Tuned Mass Damper (ALP-STMD) which was first introduced and developed by Nagarajaiah (2009), Nagarajaiah and Pasala (2010) and Nagarajaiah et al. (2010). The ALP-STMD employs a mass pendulum of variable length which can be tuned in real time to the parameters of the system using sensor feedback. The tuning action is made possible by applying a current to a shape memory alloy wire changing the effective length that supports the damper mass assembly in real time. Once a stiffness change in the structural system is detected by an open loop observer, the ALP-STMD is re-tuned to the modified system parameters which successfully reduce the response of the primary system. Significant performance improvement is illustrated for the stiffness modified system, which undergoes the re-tuning adaptation, when compared to the stiffness modified system without adaptive re-tuning.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.75-92
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• 2016

The design of a semi-active (SA) control system addressed to mitigate wind induced structural demand to high wind turbine towers is discussed herein. Actually, the remarkable growth in height of wind turbines in the last decades, for a higher production of electricity, makes this issue pressing than ever. The main objective is limiting bending moment demand by relaxing the base restraint, without increasing the top displacement, so reducing the incidence of harmful "p-delta" effects. A variable restraint at the base, able to modify in real time its mechanical properties according to the instantaneous response of the tower, is proposed. It is made of a smooth hinge with additional elastic stiffness and variable damping respectively given by springs and SA magnetorheological (MR) dampers installed in parallel. The idea has been physically realized at the Denmark Technical University where a 1/20 scale model of a real, one hundred meters tall wind turbine has been assumed as case study for shaking table tests. A special control algorithm has been purposely designed to drive MR dampers. Starting from the results of preliminary laboratory tests, a finite element model of such structure has been calibrated so as to develop several numerical simulations addressed to calibrate the controller, i.e., to achieve as much as possible different, even conflicting, structural goals. The results are definitely encouraging, since the best configuration of the controller leaded to about 80% of reduction of base stress, as well as to about 30% of reduction of top displacement in respect to the fixed base case.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.315-321
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• 2014

This paper presents an integrated chassis control system with fail safety using optimum yaw moment distribution for a vehicle with steer-by-wire and brake-by-wire devices. The proposed system has two-level structure: upper- and lower-level controllers. In the upper-level controller, the control yaw moment is computed with sliding mode control theory. In the lower-level controller, the control yaw moment is distributed into the tire forces of active front steering(AFS) and electronic stability control(ESC) with the weighted pseudo-inverse based control allocation(WPCA) method. By setting the variable weights in WPCA, it is possible to take the sensor/actuator failure into account. In this framework, it is necessary to optimize the variables weights in order to enhance the yaw moment distribution. For this purpose, simulation-based tuning is proposed. To show the effectiveness of the proposed method, simulations are conducted on a vehicle simulation package, CarSim.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.53 no.12
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• pp.691-699
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• 2004

SRM(Switched Reluctance Motor) drives require the accurate position information of the rotor. These informations are generally provided by a tacho generator or digital shaft-position encoder These speed sensors lower the system reliability and require special attention to noise. This paper describes a new approach to estimating SRM speed from measured terminal voltages and currents for speed sensorless control. The described method is based on the sliding mode observer. The rotor speed and position observers are estimated by the adaptation law using the real and estimated currents. However, the conventional adaptive sliding mode observer based on the variable structure control theory has some disadvantages that the estimated values including the high-frequency chattering and the steady state error generated due to the infinite feedback gain chosen and the discontinuous control input. To reduce the chattering and steady state error, an integrator is also inserted in the sliding mode observer strategy. The described adaptive sliding mode observer decreases the vibration to the switching hyper-plane of the sliding mode by adding integrator. The described methodology incorporates the Lyapunov algorithm to drive the rotor speed and the stator resistance such that it can overcome the problem of sensitivity in the face of SRM parameter variation. Also, without any mechanical information. The rotor speed of SRM is obtained form adaptive scheme. The described method is verified through the simulation and experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.154-162
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• 2002

The effect of nonlinear friction in the low velocity is dominant in precise controlled mechanisms and it is difficult to model. This paper is concerned with the compensation for friction using the variable structure system approach as nonmodel based method. The problem of chattering in the sliding mode controller is suppressed by the implementation of the boundary layer concept. And the estimation for friction using sliding mode observer makes the upper bound of matched uncertainty reduced. Accordingly, the effect of chattering can be more suppressed. And the sliding surface is constructed by adding an integral component to the switching function that is made by using error dynamics. This sliding surface guarantees the good tracking performance. Experimental results for a XY table system show that the proposed method has a good performance especially in the low velocity.