Hydro power stations are normally controlled by PID-controllers. One example is the Torsebro hydro power plant in Helge river. The Southern Sweden Power Supply (Sydkraft SB) initiated a research project addressing the water level control problem of hydro power plants. The goal of this master thesis was to investigate the level-control problem. Different control structures were analyzed like. PID-

This thesis presents, analyzes and suggests solutions to the dead-lock problem of the sensorless variable speed drive NFO Sinus. Friction, measurement, parameter estimation and quantization effects are believed possible origins of this problem and is hence studied. A short introduction to field oriented control of the asynchronous AC motor and the NFO Control strategy is also included

The current generation of earth-based telescopes has been of great use to astronomers for the past decades. New fields of astrophysics like the search for and analysis of earth-like planets would however need telescopes with even better resolution. These telescopes are called Extremely Large Telescopes and an ongoing project to develop such a telescope is the Euro50 project. For the Euro50 telesco

When building a telescope, importance does not only lie on the optical performance. Keeping the entire structure stable is also of great importance. In the case of the Euro50, the secondary mirror cell will be located some 60 m above ground level, exposed of wind speeds up to 15 m/s. This makes the stabilization of the mirror cell to a dicult problem. However, it has to be solved. The main goal o

This master thesis work concerns fault detection and isolation (FDI) of an electro-mechanical servo using analytical redundancy. The purpose is to reduce the number of sensors used in today's fault detection schemes and at the same time keep the level of redundancy in the system. The report will start with a comparison between physical and analytical redundancy. Whichever design method that is

The content of this master thesis regards the implementation of a control system in RTLinux/Free, and the use of this for control of a straight track inverted pendulum. A controller developed on the hypothesis that the system is sampled with the sampling time ts will perform differently than expected if sampled with the sampling time t _= ts. If implemented in a regular operating system, the compu

This thesis describes the results of an investigation into the use of Subspace-based System Identification techniques in the field of Adaptive Control. The project aims included adaption of subspace algorithms for online use, proposal of new algorithms of adaptive control based on these algorithms, and analysis of properties of the proposed systems. The thesis includes reviews of various subspace

Through the years, cranes have been used extensively for many different tasks. For example construction work, shipbuilding and cargo transportation. One of the tedious tasks that cranes perform is loading and unloading containers. This is a process which can be optimized with the aid of control theory. While moving cargo, the crane operator must make sure that crane motion does not cause the cargo

This master thesis project commissioned by Haldex Brake Products AB (in Landskrona, Sweden), and in association with the Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, deals with the problem of correct wheel speed measurements. Investigation into different types of sensors, Inductive-, Hall Effect- and Magneto-Resistive sensors have been carried out, which are sensors that may be u

The work present in this master thesis relates to output feedback adaptive control and observer design of nonlinear systems, and in particular of robot manipulators. A continuous-time velocity observer and a discrete-time adaptive velocity observer for robots are shown, and an observer backstepping controller is also proposed, which can be used together with both the observers. The resulting close

Image registration of X-ray images is used to correctly align the patient before the cancer tumour is treated with sets of high dose X-ray radiation. Before the first treatment, a simulated X-ray image is taken showing the best possible localisation of the tumour. From then on, after each of the radiation treatments of the tumour, a low dose of the X-ray theurapeutic radiation is used to take an i

When designing an automatic brake control system for a car it is important to have a mathematical model of the vehicle to base the design upon. Since careful modeling of the entire car would encompass far too many variables, the most care is usually taken to the wheels and the tyres, as those parts contain most of the dynamics influential to the process. During braking the tyres deform because of