Modelling AIDS epidemic and treatment with difference equations.
This paper concerns an obstacle control problem for an elastic (homogeneous) and isotropic) pseudoplate. The state problem is modelled by a coercive variational inequality, where control variable enters the coefficients of the linear operator. Here, the role of control variable is played by the thickness of the pseudoplate which need not belong to the set of continuous functions. Since in general problems of control in coefficients have no optimal solution, a class of the extended optimal control...
A new approach to control an omnidirectional mobile manipulator is developed. The robot is considered to be an individual agent aimed at performing robotic tasks described in terms of a displacement and a force interaction with the environment. A reactive architecture and impedance control are used to ensure reliable task execution in response to environment stimuli. The mechanical structure of our holonomic mobile manipulator is built of two joint manipulators mounted on a holonomic vehicle. The...
This paper is concerned with the finite and infinite horizon optimal control issue for a class of networked control systems with stochastic communication protocols. Due to the limitation of networked bandwidth, only the limited number of sensors and actuators are allowed to get access to network mediums according to stochastic access protocols. A discrete-time Markov chain with a known transition probability matrix is employed to describe the scheduling behaviors of the stochastic access protocols,...
We have intensified studies of reflections of copulas (that we introduced recently in [6]) and found that their convex combinations exhibit potentially useful fitting properties for original copulas of the Normal, Frank, Clayton and Gumbel types. We show that these properties enable us to construct interesting models for the relations between investment in stocks and gold.
This review aims at presenting a synoptic, if not exhaustive, point of view on some of the problems encountered by biologists and physicians who deal with natural cell proliferation and disruptions of its physiological control in cancer disease. It also aims at suggesting how mathematicians are naturally challenged by these questions and how they might help, not only biologists to deal theoretically with biological complexity, but also physicians to optimise therapeutics, on which last point the...
This paper presents a modeling methodology in (max,+) algebra which has been developed in order to implement a modulary software for the simulation and the analysis of electronic cards production lines. More generally, this approach may be applied to hybrid flowshop type manufacturing systems.
In this paper the identification of generalized linear dynamical differential systems by the method of modulating elements is presented. The dynamical system is described in the Bittner operational calculus by an abstract linear differential equation with constant coefficients. The presented general method can be used in the identification of stationary continuous dynamical systems with compensating parameters and for certain nonstationary compensating or distributed parameter systems.
This paper describes the design of an interval observer for the estimation of unmeasured quality state variables in drinking water distribution systems. The estimator utilizes a set bounded model of uncertainty to produce robust interval bounds on the estimated state variables of the water quality. The bounds are generated by solving two differential equations. Hence the numerical efficiency is sufficient for on-line monitoring of the water quality. The observer is applied to an exemplary water...