Friday, July 6, 2018

Design of Snake Robot

Are you Interested in the design of Snake robot?
The below Videos shows a few snake robots
Video-1

Video 2

The design of these robots are given in the below book

Snake Robots

Modelling, Mechatronics, and Control

Authors: Liljebäck, P., Pettersen, K.Y., Stavdahl, O., Gravdahl, J.T.














Available at https://www.springer.com/in/book/9781447129950

A Motivational TED video


Thursday, June 28, 2018

Save Power and Save Earth

Pollution has been increased drastically and has negative effects on human health. The entire human life on earth is on danger. The below cartoon in eenadu news paper depicts the same

One of the key reasons of increased pollution is thermal power plants where coal is burnt for generating electricity.




It is observed that the overall efficiency of the power system is 17% when measured w.r.t coal input. Therefore If I save one unit of electrical energy, then indirectly I save 6 to 7 units of coal and thus reduce Pollution. So finally I say "SAVE POWER & SAVE EARTH"
 

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control & MATLAB code

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is one of the recent control technique developed by control engineers and is gaining popularity in the last decade. The applications of  MPC are not just limited to Process industries, Aerospace, Power system, Drives, Renewable Energy systems etc.
For Understanding this control one can refer [1] and the corresponding MATLAB code are available at the below link:
http://extras.springer.com/2007/978-0-85729-398-5

The nonlinear version of MPC is called Nonlinear Predictive control
For understanding Nonlinear Predictive Control refer [2] and the MATLAB codes are available at the below link
http://extras.springer.com/2017/978-3-319-46023-9/matlab


References:
[1]  Camacho, Eduardo F., and Carlos Bordons Alba, "Model predictive control. Springer Science & Business Media", springer, 2013.
[2] Grüne, Lars, Pannek, Jürgen, "Nonlinear Model Predictive Control : Theory and Algorithms", springer, 2017.

Prof K Nageshwar talk on JIO Institute