Abstract: The objective of this research was to design controllers for balancing a rotary inverted pendulum. The controllers designed by the pole-placement method and the linear-quadratic regulator ...

Abstract: Taguchi methods are commonly used to optimise industrial systems, particularly in manufacturing. We have shown that they may also be used to optimise neural network weights and therefore ...

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ABSTRACT: A systematic framework for the maintenance and service of equipment is developed and proposed. The framework consists of a system of equipment failure analysis, methods, process, and ...

This work examines numerous significant process parameters in the solvent-assistant Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) bonding scheme and presents two Micro-total-analysis System (micro-TAS) devices ...