IEEE

Data-Driven Point-to-Point Finite-Iteration Learning Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems With Output Saturation

Abstract: This article considers the point-to-point tracking control problem for a class of unknown nonlinear discrete-time systems with output saturation. A novel data-driven finite-iteration ...
The New York Times

Army Secretary Orders West Point to Pull Appointment of Former Biden Official

The military academy’s appointment of Jen Easterly, who had been director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, was canceled after complaints from the far-right agitator Laura Loomer. By ...
Los Angeles Times

Malcolm Gladwell revisits ‘The Tipping Point’ that sent him to literary stardom

It’s fair to say that “The Tipping Point” was the tipping point for Malcolm Gladwell’s career. In 2000, the book catapulted Gladwell, then a New Yorker staff writer, to literary superstardom. It also ...
Frontiers

3D deformation analysis for earth dam monitoring based on terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) and the iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm

Introduction: The conventional 3-D point cloud-based deformation analysis methods, such as the shortest distance (SD), cloud-to-cloud (C2C), and multiscale model-to-model cloud comparison (M3C2), ...
Frontiers

Development of a fully implicit ODE-solver for containment analysis code

China Nuclear Power Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., Shen Zhen, China The thermal–hydraulic dynamics in containment are governed by a system of stiff ordinary differential equations (ODEs). A ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Ortega, J.M. and Rheinboldt, W.G. (1970) Iterative Solution of Nonlinear Equations in Several Variables. Academic Press, New York.

ABSTRACT: In this paper, a new two-step Newton-type method with third-order convergence for solving systems of nonlinear equations is proposed. We construct the new method based on the integral ...
Scientific Research Publishing

S. Johnson and J. Joannopoulos, “Block-Iterative Frequency-Domain Methods for Maxwell’s Equations in a Planewave Basis,” Optics Express, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2001, pp. 173-190 ...

ABSTRACT: When trying to fit data to functions of the eigensystem of a pde-eigenvalue problem, such as Maxwell’s equation, numerical differentiation is ineffective and analytic gradients must be ...