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Workpackage 6: Applications, Proof of Concept and Integration

• Participants

• Objectives

• Deliverables

• Recent Activities

• Description of current work

• Publications
  

Participants

• WP Leader: Mario di Bernardo

• Bernard Brogliato, INRIA-Rhone Alpes, France (CO1)
• Stefania Santini, Bruno Catino, Luigi Iannelli, University of Naples, Italy (CR4)
• Francesco Vasca, Consorzio Ricerche Benevento, Italy (AC5)
• Alan Champneys, Petri Piiroinen, David Wagg, University of Bristol, UK and Ugo Galvanetto, Imperial College, UK (CR6)
• Nathan Van de Wouw, TU Eindhoven, (CR8)
• Gerard Olivar, Enric Fossas, Carles Batlle Arnau, Imma Massana, Alicia Miralles, Ivan Merillas, Fabiola Angulo, UPC, (CR9)
• Christoph Glocker, ETH, (CR10)
• Hans Schumacher, Tilburg University, (AC12)

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If you are a member of the mailing list, you can send a message to all participants by using the address wp6-siconos@bristol.ac.uk
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Objectives

• Validation of the numerical code on a set of test-bed problems
• Application of the software tool to investigate the dynamics and design control strategies of three problems of relevance in Engineering
  
  
  • DC/DC Converters
  • Modelling and Control of Walking Robots
  • Investigation of rattling and clonking in automotive systems with freeplay
    
    
• Comparison of the numerical results with experiments carried out on the set-ups available to the consortium

Deliverables

The deliverables of this workpackage are listed below. By following the links the latest draft of the reports can be downloaded.

• D6.1: Report on available applications within the consortium (.zip)
• D6.2: Report on test-bed problems and the eventual bugs of the software package
• D6.3: Report on the obtained experimental results for feedback controllers
• D6.4: Report on teh obtained experimental results for dynamics and bifurcation analysis in open-loop and closed-loop.

Recent Activities

• Nov. 2002: A questionnaire is sent to all participating teams enquiring about available experimental rigs, simulation software used etc.
  
  
• Jan. 2003: Results collected and assembled into first draft of the report presented at SICONOS general meeting on 7th January 2003
  
  
• Mar. 2003: Following discussions at General Meeting, report is integrated with further details from all team on systems of interest. Research effort is directed towards recasting electrical networks as complementarity problems.
  
  
• Jul. 2003: Reports from teams are collected and added to the revised draft of the report
  
  
• Sept. 2003: Report is published on the SICONOS Website

Description of current work

A description of the experimental rigs currently available to the consortium can be found in the report D6.1 that can be downloaded from this website. More details on the ongoing work can be found in the documents listed below. Further details will be added to this website as work progresses.

• Presentation of WP6 and preliminary report given at the SICONOS General Meeting, Grenoble, Jan. 2003
• Report on available applications D6.1
  
  
  • General document (.pdf)
  • Appendix A: Questionnaire sent to all teams (.pdf)
  • Appendix B: Reports on testbed problems and experiments from participating teams
    
    
    • CO1 (INRIA) : document illustrating the main features of the walking robot available at INRIA (.pdf)
    • CR4-AC5 (Naples, Benevento): report on modelling DC/DC buck converter as complementarity problem (.pdf)
    • CR4-AC5 (Naples, Benevento): report on Sigma-Delta modulators (.pdf)
    • CR6 (Bristol): report on experimental setup to investigate the interaction of elasticity induced micro-slip/stick (.pdf)
    • CR8 (TUe): report on experimental setups and associated open research problems (.pdf)
    • CR9 (UPC): report on modelling DC/DC buck converter as complementarity problem (.pdf)
    • CR10 (ETH): report on possible testbed problem (.pdf)
      
      

Publications

This part of the website will contain a list of the publications resulting from activities within the scope of Workpackage 6. For a reprint of the paper please send an email to the highlighted corresponding author.

1. C. Batlle, E. Fossas, A. Miralles, G. Olivar, The buck converter as a linear complementarity system, submitted to IEE Electronic Letters, Jul. 2003
2. M. di Bernardo, P. Kowalczyk, A. Nordmark, Classification of sliding bifurcations in dry-friction oscillators, to appear on International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos, Oct. 2003

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