In this thesis, a cavity-backed slot antenna array is designed for relatively wide instantaneous bandwidth, high gain and low sidelobes. The array consists of four, rectangular, slot elements, arranged side-by-side in a linear array and developed around 5GHz. Two feed points, at opposing sides of the printed array, each excite two of the slot elements through a series feed. This bidirectional feed presents symmetry to the design and prevents the tendency of beam-drift versus frequency as is common with many series-fed arrays. While being fed in-phase, the array will maintain boresight at broadside over the entire operating bandwidth. Also, the additional port allows for the potential introduction of a phase offset and, therefore, beam tilt. Finally, the printed array is designed to function within a quarter-wave, metallic cavity to achieve unidirectional radiation and improve gain.

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The purpose of this project is to get a fully functional, automatic steering system and a variable breaking system with an emergency breaking function to an off road vehicle. This off road vehicle is supposed to work as an aid in military situations. A team of two, Sebastian Attervall and Nichlas Gustafsson, got an order from Jonas Nyårds and the PreeRunners Project to construct a steering system that could manoeuvre an off road vehicle without any human involvement. To make this possible the vehicle would be guided by onboard sensors, cameras and computers. The team where also assigned to construct an automatic breaking system, there also no human would be involved. The breaking system should as well contain an emergency stop function to prevent any accidents. The team has solved the problems assigned by using theories by David G. Ullman. The system that was eventually chosen was a steering system containing a 48V, 250W DC motor. A planetary gear where chosen to increase the torque from the engine. To translate the torque from the planetary gear to the steering bar a chain with chainwheel where chosen, this because the chain and chainwheel could withstand the immense forces acting on the chain. Between the planetary gear and the chainwheel a skid clutch is placed to prevent destruction on the planetary gear due to overload. The whole steering system is monitored by two rotary encoders, one placed on the engine and one placed on the steering bar. The breaking system eventually chosen where a system build on the existing drum brakes, placed in the front. To make the system independent from any human interference a system containing a linear motor, an electromagnet and a spring where chosen. The system works by letting the spring act on the wire from the existing drum breaks. The spring is always compressed so a force will always act on the wire when the system is at rest. By compressing the spring further the force acting on the wire will decrease and by compressing it enough the breaks will be released. The force compressing the spring will come from the linear motor. And to make the system failsafe in case of an emergency an electromagnet will be placed between the linear motor and the spring. When the power is cut to the electromagnet the compressed spring will be released and the drum breaks will break. The breaking system as well will be supervised by encoders and in this case linear encoders. / Syftet med detta projekt är att få ett fungerande automatiskt styrsystem och en variabel broms med nödbromsfunktion till en fyrhjuling som ska bli ett hjälpmedel i militära situationer. En projektgrupp bestående av Sebastian Attervall och Nichlas Gustafsson fick i uppgift av beställare Jonas Nygårds att ta fram ett system som ska kunna manövrera en fyrhjuling utan att en människa är inblandad. På detta vis ska den fungera helt automatiskt med hjälp av sensorer, kameror och datorer. Projektgruppen fick även i uppgift att ta fram en broms som ska kunna fungera utan inblandning av en människa. Den ska även kunna fungera som en nödbroms om systemet skulle strejka. Projektgruppen har löst de uppgifter som de har blivit tilldelade med hjälp av David G. Ullmans konstruktionsmetodik. Det system som tillslut valdes åt styrenheten blev ett system där momentet som vrider styrstången skapas med hjälp av en DC motor på 48 V och 250 W. Efter motorn sätts en planetväxel för att öka momentet. Som överföring av momentet från planetväxeln till styrstången används kedjedrift, detta på grund av att kedjan klarar av att ta upp de krafter som uppstår. En slirkoppling finns även med mellan planetväxeln och kedjedriften för att inte motorn och planetväxeln ska ta stryk vid överbelastning. Hela detta system övervakas med rotationsgivare vid motorn och styrstången så att inget fel uppstår. Konstruktionen för bromsen blev tillslut en lösning där de befintliga trumbromsarna på framhjulen används. För att bromsen ska kunna fungera utan inblandning av en människa har projektgruppen valt ett system bestående av ett linjärt ställdon, en elektromagnet och en fjäder. Systemet fungerar på så sätt att fjädern trycks ihop och en kraft uppstår. Denna kraft kommer att spänna bromsvajern så trumbromsen låser sig. Men för att inte trumbromsen ska ligga i hela tiden valde projektgruppen att använda sig av ett ställdon för att trycka ihop fjädern ytterligare så att vajern slaknar och bromskraften försvinner. För att nödbromsfunktionen ska fungera sattes en elektromagnet mellan ställdonet och fjädern. Om fyrhjulingen skulle bli strömlös släpper elektromagneten och fjädern drar åt bromsvajern. Även detta system kommer att övervakas av givare och i detta fall av en linjärgivare.

Recently, mostly due to global warming concerns and high oil prices, electric vehicles have attracted a great deal of interest as an elegant solution to environmental and energy problems. In addition to the fact that electric vehicles have no tailpipe emissions and are more efficient than internal combustion engine vehicles, they represent more versatile platforms on which to apply advanced motion control techniques, since motor torque and speed can be generated and controlled quickly and precisely. The chassis control systems developed today are distinguished by the way the individual subsystems work in order to provide vehicle stability and control. However, the optimum driving dynamics can only be achieved when the tire forces on all wheels and in all three directions can be influenced and controlled precisely. This level of control requires that the vehicle is equipped with various chassis control systems that are integrated and networked together. Drive-by-wire electric vehicles with in-wheel motors provide the ideal platform for developing the required control system in such a situation. The focus of this thesis is to develop effective control strategies to improve driving dynamics and safety based on the philosophy of individually monitoring and controlling the tire forces on each wheel. A two-passenger electric all-wheel-drive urban vehicle (AUTO21EV) with four direct-drive in-wheel motors and an active steering system is designed and developed in this work. Based on this platform, an advanced fuzzy slip control system, a genetic fuzzy yaw moment controller, an advanced torque vectoring controller, and a genetic fuzzy active steering controller are developed, and the performance and effectiveness of each is evaluated using some standard test maneuvers. Finally, these control systems are integrated with each other by taking advantage of the strengths of each chassis control system and by distributing the required control effort between the in-wheel motors and the active steering system. The performance and effectiveness of the integrated control approach is evaluated and compared to the individual stability control systems, again based on some predefined standard test maneuvers.

In this thesis, the kinematic properties of Single Gimballed Control Moment Gyroscopes (SGCMGs) are investigated. Singularity phenomenon inherent to them is explained. Furthermore, existing steering laws with their derivations are given. A novel steering law is developed that may provide singularity avoidance or may be used for quick transition through a singularity with small torque errors. To avoid singularity angular momentum trajectory of the maneuver is to be simulated in advance for the calculation of singularity free gimbal histories. The steering law, besides accurately generating required torques, also pushes the system to follow trajectories closely if there is a small difference between the planned and the realized momentum histories. Thus, it may be used in a feedback system. Also presented are number of approaches for singularity avoidance or quick transition through a singularity. The application of these ideas to the feedback controlled spacecraft is also presented. Existing steering laws and the proposed method are compared through computer simulations. It is shown that the proposed steering law is very effective in singularity avoidance and quick transition through singularities. Furthermore, the approach is demonstrated to be repeatable even singularity is encountered.

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Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2013-04-25T11:11:14Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Heike Schimitz.pdf: 3237907 bytes, checksum: 40287d1086591deef96b20257e5c30f3 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora Lopes(silopes@ufba.br) on 2013-05-16T17:45:53Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Heike Schimitz.pdf: 3237907 bytes, checksum: 40287d1086591deef96b20257e5c30f3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-16T17:45:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Heike Schimitz.pdf: 3237907 bytes, checksum: 40287d1086591deef96b20257e5c30f3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Em vários países, inclusive no Brasil, demonstra-se uma tendência de abertura da escola para a participação de profissionais ou voluntários não-escolares no processo educacional. Palavras-chave como community learning e school-networks ocupam cada vez mais espaço na discussão educacional. Há resultados positivos de programas de parceria entre escola e comunidade, por outro lado são identificadas dificuldades na participação de pessoas externas. Com objetivo de realizar uma análise descritiva das relações entre a escola com seu meio social, foram exploradas as circunstâncias, as condições e os motivos dessas relações. A questão norteadora foi saber se essas relações podem ser compreendidas como acoplamentos estruturais, um termo técnico emprestado do Modelo Teórico de Acoplamento Estrutural, que interpreta tais acoplamentos estruturais como meio de gestão. Adotou-se como metodologia um estudo de casos múltiplos com quatro escolas de educação básica das primeiras quatro séries, localizadas em Salvador-Bahia, para saber se as relações dessas escolas com seu meio manifestam (ou manifestavam) características de acoplamentos estruturais ou não. Utilizandose como técnicas de coletas as entrevistas individuais e entrevista em grupo, com as comunidades escolares e alguns dos interlocutores externos das escolas, questionários, observações diretas e de análises documentais, criou-se um quadro da percepção das escolas e de seus parceiros da sua relação. Os resultados foram contrastados entre si, conforme os seguintes critérios de análise: localização da escola (distante ou perto do centro do município), tipo de rede mantenedora (rede privada, rede pública), média de aprendizagem dos alunos (mais alto ou mais baixo do que a da média) e dispersão da aprendizagem dos alunos (maior ou menor do que a da média). A pesquisa realizada indica implicações tanto para a gestão política em geral, como também para a gestão escolar, em específico. Em primeiro lugar, ele introduz uma perspectiva teórica nova na questão da gestão que contribui na compreensão das dificuldades identificadas, no que diz respeito à participação e à cooperação entre escola e comunidade. Em segundo lugar, revelaram-se condições desfavoráveis para uma parceria entre a escola e o seu meio social, tais como: falta de transparência na comunicação e definição de objetivos; ausência de planejamento pedagógico de curto e longo prazo, em conjunto com parceiros. Alguns desses fatores esclarecem porque raramente uma relação estabelecida entre escola e seu meio se torna um acoplamento estrutural. A pesquisa revelou ainda, que uma das dificuldades das escolas reside na sua comunicação com o meio social, o que implica na necessidade de adotar uma visão da pragmalingüística da escola no conceito da gramática da escola que se estabeleceu na discussão educacional nos últimos anos. / Salvador

Dans la plupart des entreprises de fabrication mécanique, le réglage des machines-outils est une tâche déléguée au régleur qui cherche à garantir les tolérances. Cela a pour conséquence d’augmenter le temps de réglage pour une qualité qui n’est pas au niveau souhaité. Au cours de ces six dernières années, le laboratoire SYMME a élaboré des méthodes de pilotage (Copilot-Pro®et Pilotage inertiel) pour résoudre le problème de réglage des machines-outils. Fondés sur ces deux méthodes, les travaux présentés en font une synthèse et présentent des nouvelles avancées dans le pilotage de commande numériques afin d’obtenir la meilleure qualité possible quelle que soit la complexité de la pièce. L’apport de ce travail est présenté en cinq chapitres. Le premier chapitre présente le contexte général des travaux de recherche et fait un état de l'art des travaux existants, d’une part sur le pilotage et d’autre part sur la conformité. Le pilotage consiste à réduire la variabilité autour de la cible des produits et la conformité consiste à s'assurer que la dispersion d'une caractéristique est contenue dans l'intervalle de tolérance de celle-ci. Le second chapitre revient sur les méthodes de pilotage qui consistent à établir les relations entre les caractéristiques de la pièce et les correcteurs et propose dessolutions pour améliorer le calcul de la correction en tenant compte à la fois des tolérances et des nombres de points palpés sur les surfaces de la pièce. Le troisième chapitre présente les stratégies de pilotage et met en évidence les limites des méthodes classiques de détection des situations hors contrôle qui sont la carte de contrôle de Shewhart et la carte T² de Hotelling. Le quatrième chapitre fait une synthèse des méthodologies pour faciliter le déploiement des méthodes dans l’industrie. Le cinquième chapitre présente une application expérimentale du pilotage inertiel et un témoignage de l'utilisation du pilotage matriciel dans une entreprise d'horlogerie. Une conclusion rappelle les principaux apports de ce travail. / In most mechanical manufacturing companies, setting machine-tools is a task delegated to the setter who seeks to ensure tolerances. This has the consequence of increasing the adjustment time with a quality that is not at the desired level. Over the past six years, the SYMME laboratory has developed steering methods (Copilot -Pro ® and inertial steering) to solve the problem of setting machine tools. Based on these methods, the works presented make a synthesis and presents new advances in steering of digital controls (CNC) to obtain the best quality regardless of the complexity of the part. The contribution of this workis presented in five chapters. The first chapter presents the general context of the research and makes a state of the art of existing works, on the one hand on the steering and on the other hand on the conformity. The steering consists in reducing the variability around the target products and the conformity consists in verifyingthat the dispersion of a characteristic is inside its tolerance interval. The second chapter discusses the methods of steering which consist in establishing the relationship between the characteristics of the workpiece and thetool-offsets and propose solutions to improve the calculation of the correction taking into account both tolerances and number of points probed on the surfaces of the workpiece. The third chapter presents the steering strategies and highlights the limitations of conventional methods for detecting out of control situations which are the Shewhart's control card and the T² Hotelling’s card. The fourth chapter is a synthesis of methodologies to facilitate the deployment of the methods in the industry. The fifth chapter presents an experimental application of inertial steering and a debriefing on the matrix steering used in a watch manufacturer company. Conclusion reiterates the main contributions of this work

L'objectif principale de cette thèse est de développer contrôleurs innovants MIMO pour la dynamique véhicule tout en préservant la stabilité du véhicule dans les situations de conduite critiques. Des stratégies de commandes innovatrices ont été introduites pour résoudre cette problématiques. En effet, ces travaux se base sur travaux l'utilisation de la commande LPV/Hinf pour contrôler simultanément les actionneurs de freinage, braquage et de suspensions pour réaliser les objectives du contrôle.Aussi de stratégies d'estimation du profil de route très intéressant et qui peuvent apporter une solution industrielle très intéressante pour développer des contrôleurs qui assurent adaptative aux différentes conditions de route.Aussi des stratégies de commande tolérante aux défauts actionneurs ont été établi en exploitant les caractéristiques de la commande LPV pour compenser la perte de certains actionneurs (en sachant que la voiture est un système sur actionné). Des implémentations ont été effectuées sur des bancs de test et sur un véhicule réel pour prouver l'efficacité des stratégies. / The main issue of this thesis is to work out new Global Chassis MIMO controllers that enhance the overall dynamics of the vehicle while preserving the vehicle stability in critical driving situations. Many innovative strategies have been explored and finalized to deal with these problematics. Various solutions have been given to deal with the vehicle stability and performance objectives. Indeed, many works based on the LPV/Hinf approach have been developed to control simultaneously the braking, steering and suspension actuators. On the other hand, innovative road profile estimation strategies have been introduced and validated via experimental procedures, providing new cheap and easily implementable techniques to estimate the road profile characteristics. Then, the vehicle control is adapted, depending on the road roughness (since it influences greatly the behaviour and the stability of the car). Several fault tolerant control strategies have been also considered to handle the actuators failures while keeping the vehicle stability, safety and enhancing the dynamical behaviour of the car in dangerous and critical driving situations.The general content of this thesisis as follows :-PART I : Theoretical backgrounds and vehicle modeling.-PART II : Road adaptive control vehicle dynamics.-PART III : Global chassis control using several actuators.Also, during this thesis and using the previous works of the advisors and the thesis results, a Matlab ToolBox "Automotive" has been developed to provide a bench test for the different automotive control studies. Implementations on test beds and real vehicle are also achieved to prove the efficiency of the proposed strategies.