The paper investigates the possibility of decomposing vibration signals into deterministic and nondeterministic parts, based on the Wold theorem. A short description of the theory of adaptive filters is presented. When an adaptive filter uses the delayed version of the input signal as the reference signal, it is possible to divide the signal into a deterministic (gear and shaft related) part and a nondeterministic (noise and rolling bearings) part. The idea of the self-adaptive filter (in the literature...

A model following control system (MFCS) can output general signals following the desired ones. In this paper, a method of nonlinear MFCS will be extended to be a nonlinear descriptor system in discrete time. The nonlinear system studied in this paper has the property of norm constraint $\left|\right|f\left(v\left(k\right)\right)\left|\right|\le \alpha +{\beta \left|\right|v\left(k\right)\left|\right|}^{\gamma }$, where $\alpha \ge 0$, $\beta \ge 0$ , $0\le \gamma <1$. In this case, a new criterion is proposed to ensure the internal states be stable.

In this note, we employ nonlinear on-line parameter estimation methods based on adaptive neural network approximators for detecting changes due to actuator faults in a class of second order distributed parameter systems. The motivating example is a cantilevered beam actuated via a pair of piezoceramic patches. We examine changes in the control input term, which provide a simple and practical model of actuator failures. Using Lyapunov redesign methods, a stable learning scheme for fault diagnosis...

In this paper, the distributed $H_{\infty }$ estimation problem is investigated for a moving target with local communication and switching topology. Based on the solution of the algebraic Riccati equation, a recursive algorithm is proposed using constant gain. The stability of the proposed algorithm is analysed by using the Lyapounov method, and a lower bound for estimation errors is obtained for the proposed common $H_{\infty }$ filter. Moreover, a bound for the $H_{\infty }$ parameter is obtained by means of the solution of the...

An approach to determine a scheduling policy for a sensor network monitoring some spatial domain in order to identify unknown parameters of a distributed system is discussed. Given a finite number of possible sites at which sensors are located, the activation schedule for scanning sensors is provided so as to maximize a criterion defined on the Fisher information matrix associated with the estimated parameters. The related combinatorial problem is relaxed through operating on the density of sensors...

Based on a recent representation of copulas invariant under univariate conditioning, a new class of copulas linked to a distortion of the identity function is introduced and studied.

This paper presents a dynamic approach to the synthesis of a crank-rocker four-bar mechanism, that is obtained by an optimization problem and its solution using the swarm intelligence algorithm called Modified-Artificial Bee Colony (M-ABC). The proposed dynamic approach states a mono-objective dynamic optimization problem (MODOP), in order to obtain a set of optimal parameters of the system. In this MODOP, the kinematic and dynamic models of the whole system are consider as well as a set of constraints...