Publications by authors named "David H Owens"

Tremor is an involuntary and repetitive swinging movement of limb, which can be regarded as a periodic disturbance in tremor suppression system based on functional electrical stimulation (FES). Therefore, using repetitive controller to adjust the level and timing of FES applied to the corresponding muscles, so as to generate the muscle torque opposite to the tremor motion, is a feasible means of tremor suppression. At present, most repetitive control systems based on FES assume that tremor is a fixed single frequency signal, but in fact, tremor may be a multi-frequency signal and the tremor frequency also varies with time.

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The conventional tracking control of mechanical systems is generally based on the stabilization of error dynamics and most of the results can only guarantee asymptotic tracking of the desired trajectories. Since error dynamics are generally time-varying, it is very difficult to find appropriate Lyapunov functions or control Lyapunov functions to complete stability analysis and controller design. To address this limitation, the novel constructive exponential tracking control method is proposed to mechanical systems by utilizing the Hamiltonian realization and contraction analysis in this paper.

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