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The structured singular value (SSV or ) is know to be an effective tool for assessing robust performance of linear time- invariant models subject to structured uncertainty. Yet all a single analysis provides is a bound ݠon ...

It was recently shown that, in the solution of smooth constrained optimization problems by sequential programming (SQP), the Maratos effect can be prevented by means of a certain nonmonotone (more precisely, four-step ...

The automotive transmission maintains a proper equilibrium between the power and torque produced by the engine and those demanded by the drive wheels. Most automatic transmissions employ some kind of epicyclic gear mechanisms ...

FSQP 2.0 is a set of Fortran subroutines for the minimization of the maximum of a set of smooth objective functions (possibly a single one) subject to nonlinear smooth inequality constraints, linear inequality and linear ...

An interactive design system has been developed for the automotive epicyclic gear trains that can provide at least three forward gears and one reverse gear. This user-friendly windowing system can access help files, display ...

This paper describes a comparative investigation of friction- compensating control strategies designed to improve low-velocity position tracking performance for servomechanisms. Several control methods are considered ...

Despite the well established benefits of using finite element methods, commercially available finite element packages have not received wide-spread application to the analysis of highway bridges. This is because they do ...

This document deals with the design choices and goals of the Portable CONSOL, project. The original version of CONSOL-OPTCAD, a software package for the optimization-based design of engineering systems developed at the ...

Optimization problems arising in engineering applications often present distinctive features that are not exploited, or not accounted for, in standard numerical optimization algorithms and software codes. First, in many ...

Control strategies are investigated for friction compensation in servomechanisms. As part of the investigation, several different models of friction are reviewed and analyzed for their relevancy to the control problem. ...