The task of optimal local control of extreme rainfall-runoff events in sewer pipe systems is outlined and formalized as a mathematical optimization problem applicable in many other similar situations. The goals of control, i.e. minimizing of overflow, uniform runoff to purification plant and...

The objective of this paper is to design a high performance torque controller for a fifth order model of a three phase switched reluctance motor (SRM) which includes both electrical and mechanical dynamics. The same model was considered in [5] where only position control was achieved. Industrial...

Methods for the modeling and simulation of long-distance energy systems are considered. Due to Kirchhoff's laws a special type of non linear equation is crucial for the steady state and the transient analysis. A reliable algorithm to solve these equations based on Newton's method is presented....

We present a new error reduction technique for Monte-Carlo valuation of multidimensional integrals. The method, called Quadratic Resampling, consists in applying a linear transform over a sequence of random samples. This linear transform is computed from a comparative analysis of the theoretical...

The geometric problem of finding a path for a moving solid among other solid obstacles is well known in robotics in the area of real-time obstacle avoidance for manipulators and mobile robots. In this paper, a solution to the problem, also known as the findpath problem, is provided via the...