Outputs (16)

Tailored mesoporous silica supports for Ni catalysed hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming (2016)
Journal Article
Parlett, C. M., Aydin, A., Durndell, L. J., Frattini, L., Isaacs, M. A., Lee, A. F., Liu, X., Olivi, L., Trofimovaite, R., Wilson, K., & Wu, C. (2017). Tailored mesoporous silica supports for Ni catalysed hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming. Catalysis communications, 91, 76-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2016.12.021

Mesoporous silica supported Ni nanoparticles have been investigated for hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming. Ethanol reforming is structure-sensitive over Ni, and also dependent on support mesostructure; three-dimensional KIT-6 possessin... Read More about Tailored mesoporous silica supports for Ni catalysed hydrogen production from ethanol steam reforming.

Fault-tolerant wind turbine pitch control using adaptive sliding mode estimation (2016)
Journal Article
Lan, J., Patton, R. J., & Zhu, X. (2018). Fault-tolerant wind turbine pitch control using adaptive sliding mode estimation. Renewable energy, 116, 219-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2016.12.005

Wind turbine pitch systems are essential for actuating desired blade angles and hence to keep the generator at rated speed in operation region 3. In the presence of parametric pitch actuator faults, pitch systems may have slow dynamics, affecting the... Read More about Fault-tolerant wind turbine pitch control using adaptive sliding mode estimation.

Estimation of wave excitation force for wave energy converters (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abdelrahman, M., Patton, R., Guo, B., & Lan, J. (2016, September). Estimation of wave excitation force for wave energy converters. Presented at 2016 3rd Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol), Barcelona, Spain

This paper presents a novel technique to estimate the wave excitation force which is an essential signal in the control of a Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter (PAWEC). The work uses a nonlinear PAWEC simulation together with a modified form of the... Read More about Estimation of wave excitation force for wave energy converters.

A continuous control approach to point absorber wave energy conversion (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Guo, B., Patton, R., Abdelrahman, M., & Lan, J. (2016, August). A continuous control approach to point absorber wave energy conversion. Presented at 2016 UKACC International Conference on Control, UKACC Control 2016, Belfast, UK

In recent years the control of Wave Energy Conversion (WEC) systems has been a challenging research topic. A 1/50th scale buoy system has been constructed at the University of Hull for modelling, verification and control. This study focuses on the ti... Read More about A continuous control approach to point absorber wave energy conversion.

Application of model-based LPV actuator fault estimation for an industrial benchmark (2016)
Journal Article
Chen, L., Patton, R., & Goupil, P. (2016). Application of model-based LPV actuator fault estimation for an industrial benchmark. Control engineering practice, 56, 60-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2016.08.003

To bridge the gap between model-based fault diagnosis theory and the industry practice, a linear parameter varying H_/H∞ fault estimation approach is applied to a high fidelity nonlinear aircraft benchmark, to deal with the various actuator fault det... Read More about Application of model-based LPV actuator fault estimation for an industrial benchmark.

Integrated design of fault-tolerant control for nonlinear systems based on fault estimation and T-S fuzzy modelling (2016)
Journal Article
Lan, J., & Patton, R. J. (2017). Integrated design of fault-tolerant control for nonlinear systems based on fault estimation and T-S fuzzy modelling. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 25(5), 1141-1154. https://doi.org/10.1109/tfuzz.2016.2598849

This paper proposes an integrated design of faulttolerant control (FTC) for nonlinear systems using Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models in the presence of modelling uncertainty along with actuator/sensor faults and external disturbance. An augmented sta... Read More about Integrated design of fault-tolerant control for nonlinear systems based on fault estimation and T-S fuzzy modelling.

Integrated fault estimation and fault-tolerant control for uncertain Lipschitz nonlinear systems (2016)
Journal Article
Lan, J., & Patton, R. J. (2017). Integrated fault estimation and fault-tolerant control for uncertain Lipschitz nonlinear systems. International journal of robust and nonlinear control, 27(5), 761-780. https://doi.org/10.1002/rnc.3597

This paper proposes an integrated fault estimation and fault-tolerant control (FTC) design for Lipschitz non-linear systems subject to uncertainty, disturbance, and actuator/sensor faults. A non-linear unknown input observer without rank requirement... Read More about Integrated fault estimation and fault-tolerant control for uncertain Lipschitz nonlinear systems.

Congenital macrothrombocytopenia is a heterogeneous disorder in India (2016)
Journal Article
Ali, S., Ghosh, K., Daly, M. E., Hampshire, D. J., Makris, M., Ghosh, M., Mukherjee, L., Bhattacharya, M., & Shetty, S. (2016). Congenital macrothrombocytopenia is a heterogeneous disorder in India. Haemophilia, 22(4), 570-582. https://doi.org/10.1111/hae.12917

Introduction: Inherited macrothrombocytopenia represents a heterogeneous group of disorders which are characterized by the presence of a reduced number of abnormally large platelets in the circulation, which may or may not be associated with a bleedi... Read More about Congenital macrothrombocytopenia is a heterogeneous disorder in India.

Study of pyridine-mediated electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol at high CO2 pressure (2016)
Journal Article
Haywood, S. K., Rybchenko, S. I., Touhami, D., & Wadhawan, J. D. (2016). Study of pyridine-mediated electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol at high CO2 pressure. ChemSusChem, 9(13), 1660-1669. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201600267

© 2016 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim The recently proposed highly efficient route of pyridine-catalyzed CO 2 reduction to methanol was explored on platinum electrodes at high CO 2 pressure. At 55 bar (5.5 MPa) of CO 2 , the bulk elec... Read More about Study of pyridine-mediated electrochemical reduction of CO2 to methanol at high CO2 pressure.

A new strategy for integration of fault estimation within fault-tolerant control (2016)
Journal Article
Lan, J., & Patton, R. J. (2016). A new strategy for integration of fault estimation within fault-tolerant control. Automatica : the journal of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control, 69, 48-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2016.02.014

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The problem of active fault tolerant control (FTC) of dynamical systems involves the process of fault detection and isolation/fault estimation (FDI/FE) used to either make a decision as to when and how to cha... Read More about A new strategy for integration of fault estimation within fault-tolerant control.