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The motivation behind the thesis lies in some interesting results in the article 'Portfolio Optimization Applications of Stochastic Receding Horizon Control' written by James Primbs, regarding applying control theory to problems in the financial market. The purpose will be to implement a method called Model Predictive Control, MPC, for selecting optimal portfolio weights in two portfolios
The body shows impressive control capabilities in terms of the speed and the precision with which movements can be carried out under a wide variety of circumstances. The cerebellum and brainstem nuclei, including the cuneate nucleus, are believed to play a crucial role in this control. If these control mechanisms can be unveiled, this could yield important insights in not only medicine and neuroph
This master thesis present a simulation environment developed in Matlab/Simulink, which can be used for control design and code generation for real-time control experiments for the Gantry-Tau parallel robot. The Gantry-Tau is a new parallel robot concept which offers great rigidity, high speeds and large workspace. The kinematics library presented in this thesis is developed for the 5 degrees of f
Physical modeling of the driveline is crucial in many areas within the commercial vehicle industries. To have an accurate model helps the understanding of physical phenomena and is important when performing computational tests and when designing, for example, traction controllers. The differential gear is often modeled as simple as possible, neglecting more complex behaviour. The main goal with th
In industrial biotechnical processes in fed-batch mode it is desirable to keep a high feed rate in order to achieve a high production rate, while simultaneously avoiding overflow metabolism. This means that the optimum of the process is close to the point where it risks crashing due to the effects of overflow metabolites. Probing control of feed rate is a control strategy for microbial processes w
When controlling a wheeled mobile robot with four independently steerable driving wheels, the control of the wheel coordination must be handled. Both the direction and velocity of the wheels must be coordinated to allow for proper operation of the robot. The focus of this work is on the coordination of the wheel directions. Such coordination is mostly done by solving constraint equations of the sy
The objective of this thesis is to reduce the alarms in the control rooms of the processing industry and to investigate a strategy for working with the alarms. The problem with the alarms in the automation system is a result of the highly automated production and failure to design the alarms for the operator. The situation analysis showed problems with badly tuned alarms and cascade of alarms. The
Heavy-duty vehicles of today consist of much electronics and many sensors. One of these sensors is a longitudinal accelerometer. This Master's thesis investigates the possibilities to determine the road slope angle with a longitudinal accelerometer. With the knowledge of current road slope angle, many other control systems in the trucks can be improved. The optimization of these control system
Every car has its own cornering dynamics, some are oversteered, meaning that they respond more to a steering input, and some are understeered, responding less to a steering input. These dynamics depend on a wide range of parameters, the size and weight of a car and the distribution of the weight to name a few. The main part of this thesis is aimed at controlling the cornering dynamics. More specif
In many application areas in industrial production, industrial robots are utilised for performing various tasks. Frequently a predefined geometric path exists, such that the robot should track this path with its tool centre point. The tracking is often to be performed with certain criteria specified, such as minimisation of time or energy. Accordingly, path tracking problems can often conveniently
The cerebellum, a fist-sized structure of the brain, plays a crucial part in the execution and coordination of motor control tasks and cognitive activities. It is also remarkably able to adapt itself to new tasks and circumstances whenever errors in motor output are made. Over the years, valuable insight on cerebellar functionality has been gained through the application of concepts traditionally
The ball-and-beam process is one of the most famous control laboratory processes [1]. At the Department of Automatic Control at Lund Institute of Technology a light-weight ballandbeam process has been made portable by implementing the controls on a laptop with a webcam. The main contribution of this master thesis was the testing and implementation of a variety of vision-based algorithms used to lo
As of date, quantitative trading methods are a strong growing niche of trading. More and more sophisticated models are employed to chase investment opportunities. The question is whether this is over-engineering and if it adds value to practitioners. We have found an interesting quantitative pairs trading strategy that belong to the family of relative value strategies. The studied stochastic contr
With global warming and increased uncertainty about future vehicle fuel supply, the need for fuel efficient vehicles is growing. In this Master Thesis, design and implementation of a control strategy for fuel efficient deceleration is presented. The resulting deceleration controller, implemented in Embedded Matlab and Simulink, provides autonomous deceleration functionality to a vehicle cruise con
This thesis evaluates whether it is possible to use conjunctural indices from Statistics Sweden (Statistiska Centralbyrån) in order to improve the sales predictions at a Swedish gas company. For this purpose sales data for three of the main gases are gathered from the year 1995 and forth. In the first step, this data is used to create ARX and State Space models. Sales predictions are made from the
Engine knock is an undesired phenomenon in spark ignited internal combustion engines; such as a gasoline engine running the Otto cycle. Knocking originates from abnormal combustions at timings other than those decided by controlled ignition. Individual abnormal combustions of this type is also referred to as auto-ignition. Knocking is not only a limitation on engine efficiency and thus of environm
This contribution outlines an XML format for representation of differential-algebraic equations (DAE) models obtained from continuous time Modelica models and possibly also from other equation-based modeling languages. The purpose is to offer a standardized model exchange format which is based on the DAE formalism and which is neutral with respect to model usage. Many usages of models go beyond wh
This Master Thesis presents the necessary steps to manufacture a piece, starting from the draw in the software Pro/ENGINEER and then processing the generated G-code to create a RAPID program understandable for the robot. Some additions required to make the code work on the Teach Pendant of the IRB 2400-16 are explained in detail. Apart from the RAPID program, the robot is also controlled with the
The purpose of this Diploma thesis is to develop and implement an interactive simulator for a surgical robot in a Telepresence application. The focus is on an incision procedure of a scalpel during an operation. The geometric deformation of the simulation is based on a Finite Element Method (FEM) model which has to cope with discontinuity due to the incision through the body. The FEM modelling can
Wind power is subject to intensive research in the development of using more renewable energy. With a growing number of countries aiming at reducing carbon dioxide emissions, increasing investments are being made in wind turbines and wind farms. An intriguing option is to build large wind farms at sea. There are many challenges with building large offshore wind farms. This Master's thesis addr
