scholarly journals Kinetic Effects on the Stability Properties of Field-reversed Configurations: I. Linear Stability

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena V. Belova ◽  
Ronald C. Davidson ◽  
Hantao Ji ◽  
Masaaki Yamada
2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 2361-2371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena V. Belova ◽  
Ronald C. Davidson ◽  
Hantao Ji ◽  
Masaaki Yamada

2004 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 2523-2531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena V. Belova ◽  
Ronald C. Davidson ◽  
Hantao Ji ◽  
Masaaki Yamada

Meccanica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dóra Patkó ◽  
Ambrus Zelei

AbstractFor both non-redundant and redundant systems, the inverse kinematics (IK) calculation is a fundamental step in the control algorithm of fully actuated serial manipulators. The tool-center-point (TCP) position is given and the joint coordinates are determined by the IK. Depending on the task, robotic manipulators can be kinematically redundant. That is when the desired task possesses lower dimensions than the degrees-of-freedom of a redundant manipulator. The IK calculation can be implemented numerically in several alternative ways not only in case of the redundant but also in the non-redundant case. We study the stability properties and the feasibility of a tracking error feedback and a direct tracking error elimination approach of the numerical implementation of IK calculation both on velocity and acceleration levels. The feedback approach expresses the joint position increment stepwise based on the local velocity or acceleration of the desired TCP trajectory and linear feedback terms. In the direct error elimination concept, the increment of the joint position is directly given by the approximate error between the desired and the realized TCP position, by assuming constant TCP velocity or acceleration. We investigate the possibility of the implementation of the direct method on acceleration level. The investigated IK methods are unified in a framework that utilizes the idea of the auxiliary input. Our closed form results and numerical case study examples show the stability properties, benefits and disadvantages of the assessed IK implementations.


2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
R. Lowen ◽  
C. Verbeeck

This paper studies the stability properties of the concepts of local compactness introduced by the authors in 1998. We show that all of these concepts are stable for contractive, expansive images and for products.


1968 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. P. Szegö ◽  
C. Olech ◽  
A. Cellina

1994 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 131-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Duck ◽  
Gordon Erlebacher ◽  
M. Yousuff Hussaini

The linear stability of compressible plane Couette flow is investigated. The appropriate basic velocity and temperature distributions are perturbed by a small-amplitude normal-mode disturbance. The full small-amplitude disturbance equations are solved numerically at finite Reynolds numbers, and the inviscid limit of these equations is then investigated in some detail. It is found that instabilities can occur, although the corresponding growth rates are often quite small; the stability characteristics of the flow are quite different from unbounded flows. The effects of viscosity are also calculated, asymptotically, and shown to have a stabilizing role in all the cases investigated. Exceptional regimes to the problem occur when the wave speed of the disturbances approaches the velocity of either of the walls, and these regimes are also analysed in some detail. Finally, the effect of imposing radiation-type boundary conditions on the upper (moving) wall (in place of impermeability) is investigated, and shown to yield results common to both bounded and unbounded flows.


2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Valtorta ◽  
Khaled E. Zaazaa ◽  
Ahmed A. Shabana ◽  
Jalil R. Sany

Abstract The lateral stability of railroad vehicles travelling on tangent tracks is one of the important problems that has been the subject of extensive research since the nineteenth century. Early detailed studies of this problem in the twentieth century are the work of Carter and Rocard on the stability of locomotives. The linear theory for the lateral stability analysis has been extensively used in the past and can give good results under certain operating conditions. In this paper, the results obtained using a linear stability analysis are compared with the results obtained using a general nonlinear multibody methodology. In the linear stability analysis, the sources of the instability are investigated using Liapunov’s linear theory and the eigenvalue analysis for a simple wheelset model on a tangent track. The effects of the stiffness of the primary and secondary suspensions on the stability results are investigated. The results obtained for the simple model using the linear approach are compared with the results obtained using a new nonlinear multibody based constrained wheel/rail contact formulation. This comparative numerical study can be used to validate the use of the constrained wheel/rail contact formulation in the study of lateral stability. Similar studies can be used in the future to define the limitations of the linear theory under general operating conditions.


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