A Multi-Mode Smooth Command Shaper With an Adjustable Maneuver Time

Input shaping and command shaping are important techniques in reducing residual vibrations in rest-to-rest maneuvers. Jerks in these shapers can reduce the life time for the crane motors and electronic boards. In this work, a totally smooth command shaper with an independent adjustable maneuvering time is introduced to eliminate residual vibration in multimode system. The proposed technique is solved analytically and simulated numerically through several examples. Furthermore, the proposed technique requires only the resonant frequency of the system to produce a control profile. The results through several examples show a great controller performance. It is important to mention that the proposed controller can be applied on any discretized multi-degree-of-freedom system.

Risk Assessment Model of Multimode System for Earthquake-Induced Landslide in Small Watershed

This is the first introduction of multimode system theory for risk assessment of earthquake-induced landslide. The paper defines the small watershed as multimode system which included triggering system and environmental system, through studying the relationship between multimode system and risk assessment of earthquake-induced landslide. Then the paper evaluates the risk of earthquake-induced landslide in 138 small watersheds with the multimode system, and verifies the result with the landslide data from interpretation of unmanned plane image. The result indicates 67.01% area of landslide in extremely high and high hazard levels. The structure and function of risk assessment model of multimode system is consistent with the formation mechanism of earthquake-induced landslide, which could avoid and decrease the artificial and random in dividing the evaluation index and risk degree of landslide.