• Stability Analysis Of Digital Pd Control Applied To Flexible Systems 

      Fanni, Mohamed; Al-Salem, N. ( Qatar University , 2002 , Article)
      The work shows that the sampling in a digital PD controller of a flexible system may cause instability, while the continuous PD control system is stable. A procedure is introduced to define the stability regions analytically ...
    • Time-Optimal Control Of High-Speed Flexible-Robot Arm Using PD Algorithms 

      Fanni, Mohamed; Abdel-Rahman, Tarek; Al-Salem, Nabeel ( Qatar University , 2000 , Article)
      This paper addresses utilization of proportional-plus derivative (PD) control algorithms for time-optimal control of flexible-robots. Flexibility is modeled using one mode of vibration with negligible structural damping. ...