adaptive predefined performance control for mimo systems with unknown direction via generalized fuzzy hyperbolic model an adaptive predefined performance control problem is investigated for a class of multiple input multiple output systems with unknown control direction and unknown backlash like hysteresis nonlinearities by using generalized fuzzy hyperbolic model gfhm compared with the existing methods the main features are as follows the prediction error is introduced to construct the adaptive laws which means that the approximate accuracy of the gfhm is solved the nussbaum type gain is utilized to deal with the unknown control direction which avoids the requirement of direction a priori and by transforming the tracking errors into new error variables the prescribed steady state and transient performance can be ensured it is shown that the proposed control approach can guarantee that all the signals of the resulting closed loop systems are bounded and the output tracks a desired trajectory while the tracking errors are confined all times within the prescribed bounds finally two simulation results and some comparisons are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach since the proposed control strategy is only implemented in a healthy case how to extend the strategy to a faulty case will be a further topic

vanishing viscosity with short wave long wave interactions for multi d scalar conservation laws we consider a system coupling a multidimensional semilinear schrodinger equation and a multidimensional nonlinear scalar conservation law with viscosity which is motivated by a model of short wave long wave interaction introduced by benney 1977 we prove the global existence and uniqueness of the solution of the cauchy problem for this system we also prove the convergence of the whole sequence of solutions when the viscosity e and the interaction parameter approach zero so that o e1 2 we also indicate how to extend these results to more general systems which couple multidimensional semilinear systems of schrodinger equations with multidimensional nonlinear systems of scalar conservation laws mildly coupled

polynomial matrices with given determinant abstract let a be a q n polynomial matrix 1 q a if suitable polynomials 1 n exist such that one can write 1 a i 1 n a i n where ai 1 ai n is one row in a and 1 n is a unimodular row then a can be row bordered to an n n polynomial matrix m with det m some examples are discussed

measure valued solutions to initial boundary value problems for certain systems of conservation laws existence and dynamics a framework for studying initial boundary value problems for systems of conservation laws in what concerns to the existence of measure valued solutions and their asymptotic behavior is developed here with the helpful introduction of a class of flux maps which allow a rather complete treatment of these questions including systems of practical importance as those arising in multiphase flow in porous media the systems of this class may in general admit umbilic points submanifolds where genuine nonlinearity fails as well as elliptic regions we prove the existence of measure valued solutions by using the vanishing viscosity method and also finite difference schemes the main result about the dynamics of the measure valued solutions is that for certain special boundary values given by constant states the time averages of these m v solutions converge weakly to the dirac measure concentrated at those states for a e space variable the rate of convergence of the time averages of the expected values can be estimated by properties of the flux maps only

the small dispersion limit of the korteweg de vries equation iii in parts i and ii we have derived explicit formulas for the distribution limit u of the solution of the kdv equation as the coefficient of uxxx tends to zero this formula contains n parameters 1 n whose values as well as whose number depends on x and t in section 4 we have shown that for t tb n 1 and the value of was determined in section 5 we have shown that the parameters i satisfy a nonlinear system of partial differential equations in part iii section 6 we show that for t large n 3 and we determine the asymptotic behavior of 1 2 3 and of u and u2 for t large the explicit formulas show that u and u2 are o t 1 and o t 2 respectively see formulas 6 2 and 6 24 in section 7 we study initial data whose value tends to zero as x and to 1 as x if one accepts some plausible guesses about the behavior of solutions with such initial data we derive an explicit formula for the solution and determine the large scale asymptotic behavior of the solution the function s is expressible in terms of complete elliptic integrals a similar formula is derived for u2 in section 8 we indicate how to extend the treatment of this series of papers to multihumped but still negative initial data

renormalized entropy solutions of scalar conservation laws with boundary condition we study an initial boundary value problem for a scalar conservation law u t div phi u f on a bounded domain existence and uniqueness of a renormalized entropy solution is established for general l 1 data phi is an element ofc r r n

quasiconvex elastodynamics weak strong uniqueness for measure valued solutions a weak strong uniqueness result is proved for measure valued solutions to the system of conservation laws arising in elastodynamics the main novelty brought forward by the present work is that the underlying stored energy function of the material is assumed strongly quasiconvex the proof employs tools from the calculus of variations to establish general convexity type bounds on quasiconvex functions and recasts them in order to adapt the relative entropy method to quasiconvex elastodynamics

on the dirichlet problem for first order quasilinear equations on a manifold we study the dirichlet problem for a first order quasilinear equation on a smooth manifold with boundary existence and uniqueness of a generalized entropy solution are established the uniqueness is proved under some additional requirement on the field of coefficients it is shown that generally the uniqueness fails the non uniqueness occurs because of presence of the characteristics not outgoing from the boundary including closed ones the existence is proved in general case moreover we establish that among generalized entropy solutions laying in the ball u r there exist the unique maximal and minimal solutions to prove our results we use the kinetic formulation similar to one by c imbert and j vovelle introduction let m be a n dimensional c smooth compact manifold with boundary s m thus in a neighborhood of each point x0 m we can define the local coordinates x1 xn j x x u corresponding to the chart u j v where u is a neighborhood of the point x0 coordinate neighborhood v is an open subset of the half space x x1 xn r x1 0 x x2 xn rn 1 and j u v is a c diffeomorphism clearly boundary points of u and v must correspond each other under the diffeomorphism j j u s v denote by tm t m the tangent and cotangent bundles on m and by txm t xm the corresponding fibres of these bundles at a point x m any vector field a a x txm being a section of the tangent bundle tm acts on smooth functions f x c m as a first order differential operator represented in local coordinates x1 xn as a a x xi i e a f ai x xi

adaptive control for uncertain continuous time systems using implicit inversion of prandtl ishlinskii hysteresis representation in this note an implicit inversion approach is introduced to avoid difficulties associated with stability analysis in the direct application of inversion for operator based hysteresis models based on this implicit inversion an adaptive control algorithm is formulated for continuous time linear dynamical systems preceded with hysteresis nonlinearities described by the prandtl ishlinskii model a stability analysis of the controlled system is performed to show that zero output tracking error can be achieved simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm

geometric error of finite volume schemes for conservation laws on evolving surfaces this paper studies finite volume schemes for scalar hyperbolic conservation laws on evolving hypersurfaces of mathbb r 3 r 3 we compare theoretical schemes assuming knowledge of all geometric quantities to practical schemes defined on moving polyhedra approximating the surface for the former schemes error estimates have already been proven but the implementation of such schemes is not feasible for complex geometries the latter schemes in contrast only require easily computable geometric quantities and are thus more useful for actual computations we prove that the difference between approximate solutions defined by the respective families of schemes is of the order of the mesh width in particular the practical scheme converges to the entropy solution with the same rate as the theoretical one numerical experiments show that the proven order of convergence is optimal

globally stable adaptive backstepping fuzzy control for output feedback systems with unknown high frequency gain sign this paper addresses the problem of globally stable adaptive backstepping output feedback tracking control for a class of nonlinear systems with unknown high frequency gain sign the fuzzy systems are used as feedforward compensators to model some system functions depending on the reference signal thus the global stability of closed loop system can be guaranteed under the assumption that the unknown system functions are bounded by partly known nonlinear functions the other advantage of the proposed control scheme is that the designer can determine the approximation domain a priori via the bound of the reference signal which is very important for the choice of the centers and widths of membership functions moreover the nussbaum type function is employed to deal with the unknown high frequency gain sign two simulation examples are provided to illustrate the feasibility of control scheme presented in this paper

a standard test set for numerical approximations to the shallow water equations in spherical geometry a suite of seven test cases is proposed for the evaluation of numerical methods intended for the solution of the shallow water equations in spherical geometry the shallow water equations exhibit the major difficulties associated with the horizontal dynamical aspects of atmospheric modeling on the spherical earth these cases are designed for use in the evaluation of numerical methods proposed for climate modeling and to identify the potential trade offs which must always be made in numerical modeling before a proposed scheme is applied to a full baroclinic atmospheric model it must perform well on these problems in comparison with other currently accepted numerical methods the cases are presented in order of complexity they consist of advection across the poles steady state geostrophically balanced flow of both global and local scales forced nonlinear advection of an isolated low zonal flow impinging on an isolated mountain rossby haurwitz waves and observed atmospheric states one of the cases is also identified as a computer performance algorithm efficiency benchmark for assessing the performance of algorithms adapted to massively parallel computers

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convergence of the viscosity method for isentropic gas dynamics a convergence theorem for the method of artificial viscosity applied to the isentropic equations of gas dynamics is established convergence of a subsequence in the strong topology is proved without uniform estimates on the derivatives using the theory of compensated compactness and an analysis of progressing entropy waves

oscillations and concentrations in weak solutions of the incompressible fluid equations the authors introduce a new concept of measure valued solution for the 3 d incompressible euler equations in order to incorporate the complex phenomena present in limits of approximate solutions of these equations one application of the concepts developed here is the following important result a sequence of leray hopf weak solutions of the navier stokes equations converges in the high reynolds number limit to a measure valued solution of 3 d euler defined for all positive times the authors present several explicit examples of solution sequences for 3 d incompressible euler with uniformly bounded local kinetic energy which exhibit complex phenomena involving both persistence of oscillations and development of concentrations an extensions of the concept of young measure is developed to incorporate these complex phenomena in the measure valued solutions constructed here

adaptive variable structure control of a class of nonlinear systems with unknown prandtl ishlinskii hysteresis control of nonlinear systems preceded by unknown hysteresis nonlinearities is a challenging task and has received increasing attention in recent years due to growing industrial demands involving varied applications in the literature many mathematical models have been proposed to describe the hysteresis nonlinearities the challenge addressed here is how to fuse those hysteresis models with available robust control techniques to have the basic requirement of stability of the system the purpose of the note is to show such a possibility by using the prandtl ishlinskii pi hysteresis model an adaptive variable structure control approach serving as an illustration is fused with the pi model without necessarily constructing a hysteresis inverse the global stability of the system and tracking a desired trajectory to a certain precision are achieved simulation results attained for a nonlinear system are presented to illustrate and further validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach

the small dispersion limit of the korteweg de vries equation ii in part i the scattering transform method is used to study the weak limit of solutions to the initial value problem for the korteweg devries kdv equation as the dispersion tends to zero in that limit the associated schrodinger operator becomes semiclassical so the exact scattering data is replaced by its corresponding wkb expressions only nonpositive initial data are considered in that case the limiting reflection coefficient vanishes the explicit solution of kay and moses for the reflectionless inverse transform is then analyzed and the weak limit valid for all time is characterized by a quadratic minimum problem with constraints this minimum problem is reduced to a riemann hilbert problem in function theory in parts ii and iii we use function theoretical methods to solve the riemann hilbert problem in terms of solutions to an auxiliary initial value problem the weak limit satisfies the kdv equation with the dispersive term dropped until its derivatives become infinite up to that time the weak limit is a strong l2 limit at later times the weak limit is locally described by whitham s averaged equations or more generally by the equations found by flaschka et al using multiphase averaging for large times behavior of the weak limit is studied directly from the minimum problem

multi dimensional scalar balance laws with discontinuous flux abstract we consider scalar balance laws with a dissipative source term the flux function may be discontinuous with respect to both the space variable x and the unknown quantity u we formulate the definition of entropy weak solutions and provide existence and uniqueness to the considered problem the problem is formulated in the framework of multi valued mappings the notion of entropy measure valued solutions is used to prove the so called contraction principle and comparison principle

asymptotic tracking control of uncertain nonlinear systems with unknown actuator nonlinearity and unknown gain signs two adaptive control schemes for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems preceded by actuator nonlinearity are presented we consider two possible input nonlinearities that is backlash like hysteresis and symmetric dead zone which can be simultaneously dealt with by using the proposed compensation controllers the knowledge on the signs of the unknown plant parameters and the parameters in the input nonlinearity models is not required only the boundedness of the reference signal is assumed the nussbaum gain approach is employed to remove the assumption on the control gain sign the first scheme is based on the backstepping technique the final step of the recursive design is crucial for the closed loop stability in the second scheme a direct adaptive control law is designed the controller has a simple structure and only one adaptation parameter is updated in both controllers it is shown that asymptotic tracking is ensured two numerical examples are provided to show the effectiveness of the theor

an algorithm for unimodular completion over laurent polynomial rings abstract we present a new and simple algorithm for completion of unimodular vectors with entries in a multivariate laurent polynomial ring r k x 1 x k over an infinite field k more precisely given n 3 and a unimodular vector v t v 1 v n r n that is such that v 1 v n r the algorithm computes a matrix m in m n r whose determinant is a monomial such that m v t 1 0 0 and thus m 1 is a completion of v to an invertible matrix

a new convergence proof for finite volume schemes using the kinetic formulation of conservation laws we give a new convergence proof for finite volume schemes approximating scalar conservation laws the main ingredients of the proof are the kinetic formulation of scalar conservation laws a discrete entropy inequality and the velocity averaging technique

stability analysis of systems with impulse effects the authors establish conditions for the uniform stability and the uniform asymptotic stability of equilibria of systems with impulse effects described by systems of nonlinear time varying ordinary differential equations under mild additional assumptions these sufficient conditions turn out to be necessary as well for the case of time invariant systems with impulse effects described by nonlinear ordinary differential equations the above results are used to establish conditions under which the uniform asymptotic stability of equilibria can be deduced from the linearizations of such systems

well posedness theory for degenerate parabolic equations on riemannian manifolds abstract we consider the degenerate parabolic equation t u div f x u div div a x u x m t 0 on a smooth compact d dimensional riemannian manifold m g here for each u r x f x u is a vector field and x a x u is a 1 1 tensor field on m such that u a x u t x m is non decreasing with respect to u the fact that the notion of divergence appearing in the equation depends on the metric g requires revisiting the standard entropy admissibility concept we derive it under an additional geometry compatibility condition and as a corollary we introduce the kinetic formulation of the equation on the manifold using this concept we prove well posedness of the corresponding cauchy problem

the zero dispersion limit of the korteweg de vries equation for initial potentials with non trivial reflection coefficient the inverse scattering method is used to determine the distribution limit as 0 of the solution u x t of the initial value problem ut 6uux 2uxxx 0 u x 0 v x where v x is a positive bump which decays sufficiently fast as x x the case v x 0 has been solved by peter d lax and c david levermore 8 9 10 the computation of the distribution limit of u x t as 0 is reduced to a quadratic maximization problem which is then solved

a generalization of serre s conjecture and some related issues abstract several topics concerned with multivariate polynomial matrices like unimodular matrix completion matrix determinantal or primitive factorization matrix greatest common factor existence and subsequent extraction along with relevant primeness and coprimeness issues are related to a conjecture which may be viewed as a type of generalization of the original serre problem conjecture solved nonconstructively in 1976 and constructively more recently this generalized serre conjecture is proved to be equivalent to several other unsettled conjectures and therfore all these conjectures constitute a complete set in the sense that solution to any one also solves all the remaining

decentralized adaptive stabilization in the presence of unknown backlash like hysteresis due to the difficulty of handling both hysteresis and interactions between subsystems there is still no result available on decentralized stabilization of unknown interconnected systems with hysteresis even though the problem is practical and important in this paper we provide solutions to this challenging problem by proposing two new schemes to design decentralized output feedback adaptive controllers using backstepping approach for each subsystem a general transfer function with arbitrary relative degree is considered the interactions between subsystems are allowed to satisfy a nonlinear bound with certain structural conditions in the first scheme no knowledge is assumed on the bounds of unknown system parameters in case that the uncertain parameters are inside known compact sets we propose an alternative scheme where a projection operation is employed in the adaptive laws in both schemes the effects of the hysteresis and the effects due to interactions are taken into consideration in devising local control laws it is shown that the designed local adaptive controllers can ensure all the signals in the closed loop system bounded a root mean square type of bound is obtained for the system states as a function of design parameters this implies that the transient system performance can be adjusted by choosing suitable design parameters with scheme ii the proposed control laws allow arbitrarily strong interactions provided their upper bounds are available in the absence of hysteresis perfect stabilization is ensured and the l 2 norm of the system states is also shown to be bounded by a function of design parameters when the second scheme is applied

on the strong pre compactness property for entropy solutions of a degenerate elliptic equation with discontinuous flux abstract under some non degeneracy condition we show that sequences of entropy solutions of a semi linear elliptic equation are strongly pre compact in the general case of a caratheodory flux vector the proofs are based on localization principles for h measures corresponding to sequences of measure valued functions

optimal design and relaxation of variational problems iii abstract this paper has attempted a synthesis of three subjects that have developed separately optimal design homogenization and relaxation in the calculus of variations the underlying theme is that of oscillations they occur with certain definite patterns in minimizing sequences for the variational problem the same patterns recur in nearly optimal designs and in the coefficients of the equation being homogenized each problem is resolved by determining the structure of those oscillations and above all their macroscopic averages it is those averages that solve the relaxed problem they also determine the optimal design and the solution of the homogenized equation we emphasize also the role of optimization the homogenized equations and composite materials of interest here come not from arbitrary mixtures but from those that are extremal since they correspond to minimizing sequences for the variational problem the effective properties of these composites attain the optimal bounds for given materials in fixed proportions

convergence of a residual based artificial viscosity finite element method we present a residual based artificial viscosity finite element method to solve conservation laws the galerkin approximation is stabilized by only residual based artificial viscosity without any least squares supg or streamline diffusion terms we prove convergence of the method applied to a scalar conservation law in two space dimensions toward an unique entropy solution for implicit time stepping schemes

null lagrangians weak continuity and variational problems of arbitrary order abstract we consider the problem of minimizing integral functionals of the form i u f x k u x dx where r p u r and k u denotes the set of all partial derivatives of u with orders k the method is based on a characterization of null lagrangians l ku depending only on derivatives of order k applications to elasticity and other theories of mechanics are given

robust adaptive control of a class of nonlinear systems with unknown backlash like hysteresis deals with adaptive control of a class of nonlinear dynamic systems preceded by unknown backlash like hysteresis nonlinearities where the hysteresis is modeled by a differential equation by exploiting solution properties of the differential equation and combining those properties with adaptive control techniques a robust adaptive control algorithm is developed without constructing a hysteresis inverse the new control law ensures global stability of the adaptive system and achieves both stabilization and tracking to within a desired precision simulations performed on a nonlinear system illustrate and clarify the approach

weak asymptotic decay via a relaxed invariance principle for a wave equation with nonlinear non monotone damping this paper considers the problem of asymptotic decay as t of solutions of the wave equation u tt u a x u t u t x a bounded open connected set in n n 1 with smooth boundary u 0 on the nonlinear function is not assumed to be globally lipschitz continuous 0 y 2 y n 1 0 y 1 y 1 y n 1 0 for all y n 1 is not assumed to be monotone in y 1 under additional restrictions on the kernel of conditions are given which imply that u u t converges to 0 0 weakly in h h 1 0 l 2 as t the work generalises earlier results of dafermos and haraux where strong decay in h as t was obtained in the case y 1 y n 1 q y 1 q monotone on

adaptive dynamic surface control for mimo nonlinear time varying systems with prescribed tracking performance in this paper an adaptive dynamic surface control scheme is proposed for a class of multi input multi output mimo nonlinear time varying systems by fusing a bound estimation approach a smooth function and a time varying matrix factorisation the obstacle caused by unknown time varying parameters is circumvented the proposed scheme is free of the problem of explosion of complexity and needs only one updated parameter at each design step moreover all tracking errors can converge to predefined arbitrarily small residual sets with a prescribed convergence rate and maximum overshoot such features result in a simple adaptive controller which can be easily implemented in applications with less computational burden and satisfactory tracking performance simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme

stable adaptive fuzzy control of nonlinear systems preceded by unknown backlash like hysteresis this paper deals with adaptive control of nonlinear dynamic systems preceded by unknown backlash like hysteresis nonlinearities where the hysteresis is described by a dynamic equation by utilizing this dynamic model and by combining a fuzzy universal function approximator with adaptive control techniques a stable adaptive fuzzy control algorithm is developed without constructing a hysteresis inverse the stability of the closed loop system is shown using lyapunov arguments the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through simulations

kinetic decomposition for singularly perturbed higher order partial differential equations abstract in this paper we consider singularly perturbed higher order partial differential equations we establish the condition under which the approximate solutions converge in a strong topology to the entropy solution of a scalar conservation laws using methodology developed in hwang and tzavaras comm partial differential equations 27 2002 1229 first we obtain the approximate transport equation for the given dispersive equations then using the averaging lemma we obtain the convergence

formulation and convergence of the finite volume method for conservation laws on spacetimes with boundary we study nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws posed on a differential n 1 manifold with boundary referred to as a spacetime and defined from a prescribed flux field of n forms depending on a parameter the unknown variable a class of equations proposed by lefloch and okutmustur far east j math sci 31 49 83 2008 our main result is a proof of the convergence of the finite volume method for weak solutions satisfying suitable entropy inequalities a main difference with previous work is that we allow for slices with a boundary and in addition introduce a new formulation of the finite volume method involving the notion of total flux functions under a natural global hyperbolicity condition on the flux field and the spacetime and by assuming that the spacetime admits a foliation by compact slices with boundary we establish an existence and uniqueness theory for the initial and boundary value problem and we prove a contraction property in a geometrically natural l 1 type distance

dynamic regulation of 2d systems a state space approach abstract the possibilities of modifying the dynamical behavior of 2d state space models by output feedback compensation are investigated and a complete characterization of the closed loop polynomial varieties is given it turns out that plant hidden modes and rank singularities of the transfer function are the unique constraints we have to cope with in the compensator synthesis the proof of this result is based on algebraic manipulations of 2d mfds and on a coprime realization algorithm

statistical solutions and onsager s conjecture abstract we prove a version of onsager s conjecture on the conservation of energy for the incompressible euler equations in the context of statistical solutions as introduced recently by fjordholm et al 2017 as a byproduct we also obtain an alternative proof for the conservative direction of onsager s conjecture for weak solutions under a weaker besov type regularity assumption than previously known

scalar conservation laws on constant and time dependent riemannian manifolds abstract in this paper we establish well posedness for scalar conservation laws on closed manifolds m endowed with a constant or a time dependent riemannian metric for initial values in l m in particular we show the existence and uniqueness of entropy solutions as well as the l 1 contraction property and a comparison principle for these solutions throughout the paper the flux function is allowed to depend on time and to have non vanishing divergence furthermore we derive estimates of the total variation of the solution for initial values in bv m and we give in the case of a time independent metric a simple geometric characterisation of flux functions that give rise to total variation diminishing estimates

brief paper adaptive tracking of nonlinear systems with non symmetric dead zone input quite successfully adaptive control strategies have been applied to uncertain dynamical systems subject to dead zone nonlinearities however adaptive tracking of systems with non symmetric dead zone characteristics has not been fully discussed with minimal knowledge of the dead zone parameters it is shown that the controlled system preceded by a non symmetric dead zone input can be represented as an uncertain nonlinear system subject to a linear input with time varying input coefficient to cope with this problem a new adaptive compensation algorithm is employed without constructing the dead zone inverse the proposed adaptive scheme requires only the information of bounds of the dead zone slopes and treats the time varying input coefficient as a system uncertainty the new control scheme ensures bounded error trajectory tracking and assures the boundedness of all the signals in the adaptive closed loop by appropriate selections of the controller parameters we show that the smoothness of the controller does not affect the accuracy of trajectory tracking control a numerical example is included to show the effectiveness of the theoretical results

adaptive backstepping control of a class of uncertain nonlinear systems with unknown backlash like hysteresis in this note we consider the same class of systems as in a previous paper i e a class of uncertain dynamic nonlinear systems preceded by unknown backlash like hysteresis nonlinearities where the hysteresis is modeled by a differential equation in the presence of bounded external disturbances by using backstepping technique robust adaptive backstepping control algorithms are developed unlike some existing control schemes for systems with hysteresis the developed backstepping controllers do not require the uncertain parameters within known intervals also no knowledge is assumed on the bound of the disturbance like term a combination of the external disturbances and a term separated from the hysteresis model it is shown that the proposed controllers not only can guarantee global stability but also transient performance

hyperbolic conservation laws on the sphere a geometry compatible finite volume scheme we consider entropy solutions to the initial value problem associated with scalar nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws posed on the two dimensional sphere we propose a finite volume scheme which relies on a web like mesh made of segments of longitude and latitude lines the structure of the mesh allows for a discrete version of a natural geometric compatibility condition which arose earlier in the well posedness theory established by ben artzi and lefloch we study here several classes of flux vectors which define the conservation law under consideration they are based on prescribing a suitable vector field in the euclidean three dimensional space and then suitably projecting it on the sphere s tangent plane even when the flux vector in the ambient space is constant the corresponding flux vector is a non trivial vector field on the sphere in particular we construct here equatorial periodic solutions analogous to one dimensional periodic solutions to one dimensional conservation laws as well as a wide variety of stationary steady state solutions we also construct confined solutions which are time dependent solutions supported in an arbitrarily specified subdomain of the sphere finally representative numerical examples and test cases are presented

global and local consistencies in distributed fault diagnosis for discrete event systems in this paper we present a unified framework for distributed diagnosis we first introduce the concepts of global and local consistency in terms of supremal global and local supports then present two distributed diagnosis problems based on them after that we provide algorithms to achieve supremal global and local supports respectively and discuss in detail the advantages and disadvantages of each finally we present an industrial example to demonstrate our distributed diagnosis approach

robust adaptive control of a class of nonlinear systems with unknown dead zone this paper deals with the adaptive control of a class of continuous time nonlinear dynamic systems preceded by an unknown dead zone by using a new description of a dead zone and by exploring the properties of this dead zone model intuitively and mathematically a robust adaptive control scheme is developed without constructing the dead zone inverse the new control scheme ensures global stability of the adaptive system and achieves desired tracking precision simulations performed on a typical nonlinear system illustrate and clarify the validity of this approach

erratum to existence and strong pre compactness properties for entropy solutions of a first order quasilinear equation with discontinuous flux sequences of entropy solutions of a non degenerate first order quasilinear equation are shown to be strongly pre compact in the general case of a caratheodory flux vector existence of the weak and entropy solution to the cauchy problem for such an evolutionary equation is also established the proofs are based on the general localization principle for h measures corresponding to sequences of measure valued functions