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Design of reliable control systems by Veillette, R.J., Medanic, J.B., Perkins, W.R.

“…A methodology for the design of reliable centralized and decentralized control systems is developed. The resulting control systems are reliable in that they…”
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An interdisciplinary, interdepartmental control systems laboratory by Alleyne, A.G., Block, D.J., Meyn, S.P., Perkins, W.R., Spong, M.W.

“…The existing US paradigm of individual departmental laboratories is increasingly difficult to justify due to the interdisciplinary nature of modern control…”
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Liposome technology and the development of Myocet™ (liposomal doxorubicin citrate) by Swenson, C.E., Perkins, W.R., Roberts, P., Janoff, A.S.

“…Liposomes are phospholipid membrane vesicles that can act as carriers for drugsin order to target them to specific tissues. Encapsulation within a liposome can…”
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Parameter identification for inflight detection and characterization of aircraft icing by Melody, J.W., Başar, T., Perkins, W.R., Voulgaris, P.G.

“…Increasing interest in aircraft icing has motivated the proposal of a new ice management system that would provide inflight monitoring of ice accretion…”
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Introduction To "a Brief History Of Electrical Engineering Education" by Perkins, W.R.

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The determination of liposome captured volume by Perkins, W R, Minchey, S R, Ahl, P L, Janoff, A S

“…Manipulating the process by which lipids assemble to form bilayer membranes has produced a myriad of protocol-dependent liposome types. For each of these…”
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Lane assignment on automated highway systems by Ramaswamy, D., Medanic, J.V., Perkins, W.R., Benekohal, R.F.

“…The automation of highways as part of the intelligent vehicle highway system (IVHS) program is seen as a way to alleviate congestion on urban highways. This…”
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Curvature dependent induction of the interdigitated gel phase in DPPC vesicles by Boni, L T, Minchey, S R, Perkins, W R, Ahl, P L, Slater, J L, Tate, M W, Gruner, S M, Janoff, A S

“…Ethanol causes biphasic melting behavior in saturated lecithins (Rowe (1983) Biochemistry 22, 3299-3305), a consequence of the formation of the stable…”
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Pole placement by performance criterion modification by Medanic, J., Tharp, H.S., Perkins, W.R.

“…A procedure is presented that modifies the state weighting matrix Q and introduces a degree of relative stability into the original performance criterion to…”
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Reliable H/sub /spl infin// norm bounding controllers with redundant control elements by Leland, P.M., Medanic, J.V., Perkins, W.R.

“…Reliable H/sub /spl infin// norm bounding controllers are designed using redundant control elements. One sensor is made redundant and the resulting system is…”
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Adaptive control of temperature in arc welding by Nishar, D.V., Schiano, J.L., Perkins, W.R., Weber, R.A.

“…We have outlined our approach for developing an integrated system for controlling centerline bead temperature in arc welding. An optical thermography system,…”
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Combining land assignment with route guidance on corridor systems by Ramaswamy, D., Medanic, J.V., Benekohal, R., Perkins, W.R.

“…Recent activities in advancing surface transportation systems have focused on the development of intelligent vehicle highway systems (IVHS) and in particular…”
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Partitioned lane assignment strategies for balancing excess lane capacity on AHS by Medanic, J.V., Ramaswamy, D., Perkins, W.R., Benekohal, R.

“…This paper discusses lane assignment on automated highway systems (AHS) done to balance excess lane capacities The lane assignment is formulated as a…”
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Reliable control in the presence of sensor/actuator failures: a unified discrete/continuous approach by Shor, M.H., Perkins, W.R.

“…The authors present observer-based controller designs reliable with respect to failures from a preselected set of sensors or actuators. The design guarantee…”
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Design of reliable control systems by Veillette, R.J., Medanic, J.V., Perkins, W.R.

“…A methodology for the design of reliable control systems is developed. The resulting control systems are reliable in that they remain stable and provide…”
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Decentralized multirate digital control: reliability to sensor outages by Shor, M.H., Perkins, W.R.

“…A reliable H/sub infinity / norm-bounding decentralized controller design is presented for digital systems with sensors and actuators operating at multiple…”
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Lane assignment on an automated highway by Ramaswamy, D., Medanic, J.V., Perkins, W.R., Benekohal, R.

“…The automation of highways as part of the IVHS program is seen as a way to alleviate congestion on urban highways. In this context, this paper introduces a…”
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Computation of families of H-infinity control laws by Veillette, R.J., Medanic, J.V., Perkins, W.R.

“…A convexity property of a certain matrix Riccati function allows the computation of families of gain matrices for H/sub infinity /-norm-bounding state-feedback…”
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A reduced-order discrete-time H-infinity norm bounding controller by Hoover, D.N., Perkins, W.R., Medanic, J.V.

“…Sufficient conditions to design a discrete-time reduced-order H/sub /spl infin// norm bounding controller using measurement feedback are given. The solution…”
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Robust stabilization and disturbance rejection for systems with structured uncertainty by Veillette, R.J., Medanic, J.V., Perkins, W.R.

“…A method based on the algebraic Riccati equation is presented for designing state- and output-feedback control laws for plants with structured uncertainty. The…”
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