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This paper is concerned with the control of a laboratory setup called the twin rotor MIMO system. A novel nested saturation controller based on well-known extended state observer is proposed. Extended state observer has been utilized to tackle control difficulties due to existence of a high coupling between system channels. Nested saturation control is also utilized to improve closed-loop performance of system considering inevitable input saturation constraint. Besides the complexity of system, the proposed method can be simply designed and implemented. Numerical simulations are utilized to demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed method in comparison with the existing ones. © 2017 IEEE  

Bidirectional DC/DC converters are so prevalent in several applications. Regarding some applications, increasing their voltage gain ratios (VTR) are quite important. So, this paper proposes a novel extendable bidirectional boost-buck converter. In this converter, any isolation and coupled inductors are not employed. Each stage is derived from fundamental bidirectional boost-buck converter with the same switching algorithms. By embedding n stages in topology, VTRs for step-up-step-down are multiplied $n$ times for step-down and step-up modes. Furthermore, a comprehensive comparison have provided in case of VTR and total voltage stress across active power switches. It can be seen that total... 

In this paper a linear delayed feedback control is proposed and experimentally applied to eliminate chaos in a nonlinear electrical circuit which is known as Sprott circuit. The chaotic behavior of the system is suppressed by stabilizing one of its first order Unstable Periodic Orbits (UPOs) by a controller designed based on so-called Pyragas method. The effectiveness of this method, firstly, is numerically investigated by stabilizing the unstable first order periodic orbit and then verified experimentally by a laboratory setup. ©2007 IEEE  

The novel idea of the Hydromagnetic Micropump and Flow Controller (HMFC) is used in this paper to construct a laboratory setup capable of bidirectional pumping and controlling the flow in microtubes. A laboratory setup, which contains no moving parts, is integrated with a pressure-driven flow setup to make the presented HMFC device. The device operation is based on controllable motion of magnetic particles, added to the carrier fluid, caused by the magnetic field, produced by solenoids located just next to the microtube. The magnitude of these forces is proportional to the strength and gradient of magnetic field which, in turn, is related to the electrical current and arrangement of the...