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Enhancing Energy Harvesting in Harmonically Forced Oscillators via Regenerative Impulsive Braking
Nilay Kant
This paper investigates whether regenerative impulsive braking can enhance passive energy harvesting in harmonically forced oscillators. An impulsive braking event directly extract…
Emergency Obstacle Avoidance Maneuvers in Differential-Drive Mobile Robots
Kautik Mandve, Nilay Kant
Emergency obstacle avoidance requires a mobile robot to brake or change its heading within the available distance. This paper investigates the dependence of maneuver performance an…
State Observers with Prescribed Output Error Bounds
Nilay Kant
This paper presents a state observer design for continuous linear time-invariant (LTI) systems subject to unknown bounded disturbances that enforces a prescribed bound on the obser…
Dynamics of the Thermomagnetic Pendulum
Ryan Thompson, Ethan Wang, Nilay Kant
A thermomagnetic pendulum is introduced as a coupled thermo-magnetic-mechanical system consisting of a ferromagnetic bob under gravity and an offset permanent magnet. Heating drive…
Online Approximate Dynamic Programming within Linear Model Validity Regions Exploiting Impulsive Braking Inputs
Adebayo Olayinka Oke, Nilay Kant
Persistent excitation required for online approximate dynamic programming (ADP) can drive a nonlinear system beyond the region where its local linear model remains valid. For a cla…