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The main effort of this thesis is to present a numerical method to simulate and implement a special type of controllers, called proportional-weighted integral (PWI) controllers. For this purpose, at first mathematical equations of the fractional order proportional-integral controllers have been investigated in the time domain, and then by generalization of these controllers, the PWI controllers are achieved. Next the discretization of these controllers are carried out and the performance of the controllers are simulated by means of this discretization and comparison between these controllers and the conventional PI controllers has been held. After that a method for estimation of these... 

The daily development of societies and the advancement of various industries have led civil engineering to save on and use of environmentally friendly materials. Urban development and population concentration In some areas, Encourages engineers To use materials with more efficiency to design High-rise structures that have more lifetime or maintain them using modern methods. Concrete in most structures has a significant percentage of consumable materials, but it has limited tensile strength and flexibility. Fiber can be used to control the growth of cracks, prolonging useful life, controlling permeability and corrosion. Different types of fibers are used in concrete.In this study, we have... 

The daily development of societies and the advancement of various industries have led civil engineering to save on and use of environmentally friendly materials. Urban development and population concentration In some areas, Encourages engineers To use materials with more efficiency to design High-rise structures that have more lifetime or maintain them using modern methods. Concrete in most structures has a significant percentage of consumable materials, but it has limited tensile strength and flexibility. Fiber can be used to control the growth of cracks, prolonging useful life, controlling permeability and corrosion. Different types of fibers are used in concrete. In this study, we have... 

This paper concerns the delay margin achievable using fractional order Proportional_Integral_Derivative controllers for linear time- invariant systems subject to variable, unknown time delays. The basic issue under investigation addresses the question: What is the largest range of time delay so that there exists a single fractional order Proportional_Integral_Derivative controller to stabilize the delay plants within the entire range? Delay margin is a fundamental measure of robust stabilization against uncertain time delays and poses a fundamental, longstanding problem that remains open except in simple, isolated cases. In this research, we develop explicit expressions of the exact delay... 

In this thesis, various fractional order controllers (FOCs), e.g., FO-PID, FO-TID, CRONE and FO-Lead/Lag, are implemented using PLC. For this purpose first, several methods are used to approximate the differentiator and integral operators. Based on these methods, the equivalent rational transfer functions of the fractional order controllers are obtained. Then, using STEP7 software, the FOCs are implemented in Siemens PLC. Moreover, to facilitate the use of the implemented FOCs in the industry and to take full advantage of the controllers, WinCC software as an interface between human and machine (HMI) is used. The WinCC software enables the operator to access the PLC through a computer (PC)... 

In this study, some of robust and exact tuning methods for fractional order PD and PI controllers are investigated in order to extract their solution existence conditions. Using aforementioned methods needs solving a set of nonlinear equations to obtain desired controller parameters which satisfy the control objectives. Hence, one of the aims of this study is to find necessary and sufficient condition on tuning specifications which guarantee the applicability of the aforementioned methods. The achievable performance region of the methods is obtained through the extracted necessary and sufficient conditions. The other aim of this work is to investigate the uniqueness of the methods... 

Along with the development of electronic exchanges, accessibility to various data streams, increasing computing power, decreasing trading costs, and growing competition in financial investment industry, quantitative trading strategies or quantitative trading rules have developed rapidly in the recent decades. These strategies try to forecast the future price movements of risky assets from the historical market information in algorithmic ways or statistical ways and thus challenge the Efficient Market Hypothesis.
The increasing attention to these strategies and lack of related empirical studies in the financial markets of Iran, motivate the research in this area. Furthermore, despite its... 

Investigation of transport and deposition of aerosol particles attracts interests in many fields of sciences. Various numerical and computational methods has been utilized in particulate flows studies. In recent relevant researches lattice Boltzmann method has been widely used and is reported to be a robust and efficient method. In present study, numerical investigation of dispersion and deposition of aerosol particles is performed in curved and bifurcating channels using LBM. Fluid flow simulations are performed using LBM while one-way coupling Lagrangian point of view is used for particle tracking. As the first showcase, transport and deposition of aerosol particles in channel flow with... 

In this thesis, a new method has been developed for tuning of fractional PI ( ) and fractional [PI] ( ) controllers for the first order plus dead-time ( ) systems. By using the performance-map method ( ) and based on phase and gain margins' criteria, a formula which is function of fractional order ( ) and normalized dead-time ( ) has been proposed for the proportional and integral coefficients. In addition, an equation has been given for the fractional order of controller to minimize the integrated absolute error ( ) index. Moreover, overshoot and settling-time of the step response of the system have been improved by dynamic setpoint weighting. Simulation results have shown that proposed... 

Speech synthesis and its applications have been very attractive recently. The main purpose of this technique is to produce a speech signal with natural characteristics of human speech like prosody and emotion. Among all existing methods for speech synthesis, statistical parametric speech synthesis methods are more promising because ofhigher flexibility in comparison to other methods. One of the applications of speech synthesis is speech to speech translation. In these systems, the generated voice in target language should have the same characteristics as the input voice in source language. The main purpose of this research is to review and evaluate the cross lingual speaker adaptation... 

The purpose of this thesis is presenting some decoupling methods for fractional-order two input-two outputs (TITO) systems in order to using in control applications. To achieve this purpose, some methods which have been proposed for decoupling of integer-order systems have been studied and then generalized to be used in decoupling of the fractional-order systems. These methods are classified in two classes: state space based methods and transfer function based methods. Also, in this thesis the proposed decoupling methods have been used in control of some fractional-order TITO systems  

This thesis studies undamped oscillations generated by marginally stable fractional order linear time invariant (LTI) systems. In this study, the concept of integral curve is developed for fractional order LTI systems. The proposed concept is obtained based on equivalent integer order linear time varying (LTV) systems. Then, an analytical approach is proposed to be used for harmonic analysis of such oscillations in marginally stable commensurate order LTI systems. Also, it is shown that the Q-semi norm of the limit sets for a trajectory of these systems can be analytically determined based on the Q-semi norm of the initial condition, where Q is a specific matrix. Moreover, this result is... 

Distributed order dynamic systems are studied in this thesis. These systems incorporate distributed order operators to describe physical phenomena that naturally occur in diffusion, relaxation and viscoelasticity. Hence, the exact solutions of distributed order system of differential equations are derived analytically which are described by what we later call distributed order mittag-leffler functions. Then robust stability of distributed order LTI continuous time systems with uncertain weight functions and dynamic matrices is investigated and some sufficient conditions for stability/instability are introduced in this matter. Also, after discussing some of the properties of stability... 

In this thesis, the performance of a special type of controllers, called Proportional-Integral weighted (PIw) controllers, in control of nonlinear systems is studied. To this aim, the domain of attraction of polynomial nonlinear control systems in the presence of PIw and Proportional-Integral (PI) controllers is estimated and compared with each other. For this estimation, two different methods are used, and the obtained results are compared. Next, adaptive PIw and adaptive PI controllers are designed to be used in control of nonlinear systems. The effectiveness of the proposed controllers is illustrated for a Continuous-Stirred-Tank-Reactor (CSTR) that has an uncertain parameter in its... 

In this thesis, some basic concepts in distributed order systems are rewieved. BIBO stability condition of these systems is introduced and stability boundary of distributed order systems in eigenvalue plane of system dynamic matrix is found. In next section, some basic properties of stability boundary are investigated. Stability boundary changes due to changes in distribution function discussed in next part. Furthermore, finding stability areas in cases which stability boundary divides plane of system dynamic matrix to several separated areas is done. A new method for identifying order distribution function by information obtained from stability boundary presented and after that, an... 

Flash Crowd traffic generation can be used as a metrics for measuring the resiliency and performance of a server. Also, it can provide a framework for verification and test of Intrusion detection systems (IDS) and Intrusion protection systems (IPS). Common traffic generation methods mimic timing and content of input traffic or regenerate input traffic by extracting its statistic distribution. So all of them need input traffic, while properties of Flash Crowd are different in the various servers and situations and there is no guaranty in existence of such samples of traffic for all servers. In this thesis, we introduce and use a new method for traffic generation without the need for input... 

Time delay and bandwidth limitations are common characteristics of communication channels that cause problems in direct use of classic control strategies in networked control systems. As networked systems become larger in scale and the need to share communication channels by multiple processes and controllers, this issue becomes more apparent. In recent decades, the stabilization of time-delay systems has attracted much attention. One of the most common control methods in such cases is based on the use of predictor feedback controllers. Predictor feedback controllers apply a delay-dependent or delay-independent control signal to the system. On the other hand, event-based control has many... 

Multi-agent systems have been attracting much attention in various fields due to their enormous potential applications, such as network control, distributed control, surveillance, etc. One of the most important issues in multi-agent systems is consensus, which refers to the problem that an agreement state is reached as a result of local communication.In order to reducing the necessary computations and the number of communications between agents, the event-triggered control was introduced and this excellent control scheme has received considerable attention of researchers.Time delay in multi-agent systems cannot be avoided duo to the signal processing and propagation. Hence, it is natural... 

Linear controllers have become popular in the industry because they have a simple structure and are easily implemented. But, they have fundamental limitations like waterbed effect and Bode’s phase gain relation. To overcome these limitations, other types of controllers have to be used like nonlinear controllers and reset ones. The hybrid integrator-gain system (HIGS) is one of these systems that has been able to overcome these limitations very well.Partial resetting and achieving variable phase in output are essential features in reset systems that have not been developed in HIGS. Here we are interested in generalizing HIGS to accomplish these features.Calculating higher-order harmonics is... 

One of the key subjects in the area of mathematical optimization is a class of problems known as combinatorial optimization. We can find the optimal solution of continuous optimization problems feasible in time. But, in combinatorial optimization, we aim to obtain the optimal solution of the problem over a finite set. These problems are NP-hard and no polynomial-time solution has been proposed for this class of problems so far. Thus, in practical scenarios, we often use heuristic methods for solving NP-hard problems. There are lots of heuristic methods and choosing the best one in different situations might be challenging. In recent years, with the advances in deep neural networks,...