Inter national J our nal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) V ol. 7, No. 5, October 2017, pp. 2605 – 2613 ISSN: 2088-8708 2605       I ns t it u t e  o f  A d v a nce d  Eng ine e r i ng  a nd  S cie nce   w     w     w       i                       l       c       m     Rob ustness and Stability Analysis of a Pr edicti v e PI Contr oller in W ir elessHAR T Netw ork Characterised by Stochastic Delay Sabo Miya Hassan 1,2 , Rosdiazli Ibrahim 1 , Nordin Saad 1 , V ijanth Sagayan Asir v adam 1 , Kishor e Bingi 1 , and T ran Duc Chung 1 1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Uni v ersiti T eknologi PETR ON AS, 32610 Seri Iskandar , Perak, Malaysia 2 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ab ubakar T af a w a Bale w a Uni v ersity , PMB 0248 Bauchi, Nigeria Article Inf o Article history: Recei v ed: Mar 11, 2017 Re vised: May 26, 2017 Accepted: Jun 14, 2017 K eyw ord: Rob ustness Stability analysis PPI controller Stochastic delay W irelessHAR T control Model mismatch ABSTRA CT As control o v er wireless netw ork in the industry is recei v es increasing attent ion, its appli- cation comes with challenges such as stochastic netw ork delay . The PIDs are ill equipped to handle such challenges while the model based controllers are comple x. A settlement be- tween the tw o is the PPI controller . Ho we v er , there is no certainty on its ability to preserv e closed loop stability under such challenges. While classical rob ustness measures do not re- quire e xtensi v e uncertainty modelling, the y do not guarantee stability under simultaneous process and netw ork delay v ariations. On the other ha nd, the model uncertainty measures tend to be conserv ati v e. Thus, this w ork uses e xtended complementary sensiti vity function method which ha ndles simultaneously those challenges. Simulation results sho ws that the PPI controller can guarantee stability e v en under model and delay uncertainties. Copyright c ī€ 2017 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science . All rights r eserved. Corresponding A uthor(s): Sabo Miya Hassan, Rosdiazli Ibrahim Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Uni v ersiti T eknologi PETR ON AS, 32610 Seri Iskandar , Perak, Malaysia Email:hsmiya2010@gmail.com, rosdiazli@utp.edu.my 1. INTR ODUCTION Emer gence of W irelessHAR T and ISA100 W ireless as the only industrial wireless standards for monitoring and automation has prompted researchers to e xplore their control application capabilities [1, 2]. This is due to the adv antages wireless has o v er the wired system of fle xibility , scalability and impro v ed reliability due to the mesh topology the tw o standards support [3, 4]. The tw o standards both operate on the 2.5GHz Industrial scientific and medical (ISM) radio frequenc y band and are based on the IEEE802.14.4 ph ysical layer [1]. W irelessHAR T being based on the traditional HAR T standard and the first to hit the public domain, has an edge o v er the ISA100 wireless standard. There are close to 30 million HAR T enabled de vices already installed globally in the industries that can easily be con v erted to support W irelessHAR T [4]. Ho we v er , application of the standard for control comes with problems of stochastic netw ork delay , non periodic update of measurement and uncertainties such as pack et loss [5, 6]. T o curtail this problems, especially that of the stochastic netw ork delay , se v eral control strate gies ha v e been proposed, among which is the use of Predicti v e PI controller (PPI) [7, 8]. The controller is a compromise between the e xpensi v e and comple x model based controllers and t he simple b ut poorly performing PID. The controller allo ws for model mismatch hence can function well in a stochastic delay setting [9]. It is w orth noting that a k e y task of an y control system is to ensure close loop system stability e v en in the presence of uncertainties and process parameter change. This is not an e xception with the PPI controller . Thus, the PPI controller if used in the W ireles sHAR T en vironment must also ensure system stability under changing conditions of the netw ork and plant. There are man y rob ustness measures to e v aluate the e xtend to which controll ers can ef fecti v ely perform while maintaining system instability [10, 11, 12, 13]. The tw o most commonly used measures are the classical and model uncertainty methods [14]. The former is based on phase, g ain and deadtime mar gins while the latter is based on sensiti vity and its compl imentary functions. Ho we v er , the k e y shortcomings of these approach is that the y too conserv ati v e. F or e xample, the classical method consider v ariation in the process separately while the model uncertainty does not tak e into account v ariation in delays. 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2606 ISSN: 2088-8708 In this w ork, a rob ustness measure using complementary sensiti vity function [14, 15] will be used to e x- amine the rob ustness of the PPI controller in a W irelessHAR T en vironment. The method considers simultaneously v ariation in process parameters such as g ain, phase, deadtime and also netw ork stochastic delays. The rest of the paper is or g anized as follo ws: the methodology is gi v en in Section 2, while results are discussed and analysed in Section 3.. The last section dra ws conclusion. 2. METHODOLOGY 2.1. The Pr edicti v e PI contr oller e - Ļ„ ca s e - Ļ„ sc s G P ( s ) e - L p s W i r e l e s s   n e t wo r k Y ( s ) K C e - sL /( 1+ sT i ) + E ( s ) U ( s ) + - R ( s ) P P I   c o n t r o l l e r Figure 1. PPI controller in wireless netw ork set-up Consider the control set-up sho wn in Fig. 1, the netw ork delay ī€œ N is the sum of the controller -to-actuator delay ī€œ ca and the sensor -to-controller delay ī€œ sc gi v en as ī€œ N = ī€œ ca + ī€œ sc (1) Thus, the total loop delay is then gi v en as L = ī€œ N + L p (2) where L P is the process deadtime. Consequently , the PPI controller G c ( s ) of Fig. 1 for the wireless systems can be e xpressed as (3). U ( s ) = K c E ( s ) + 1 1 + T s e  sL U ( s ) (3) Equation (3) can be e xpressed as a cascade of a PI controller and the predictor as follo ws G c ( s ) = K c  1 + 1 T i s    1 1 + 1 T i s (1  e  sL ) ! ; (4) where, C P I ( s ) = K c (1 + 1 T i s ) , is the PI controller and C pr ed ( s ) = 1 1+ 1 T i s (1  e  sL ) is the predictor . 2.2. Extended Complementary Sensiti vity Function Based Rob ustness Rob ust stability condition of the PPI controller gi v en in (3) and (4) will be established based on the e xtended sensiti vity function method proposed by [14]. The method is adopted here to include alongside model parameter v ariations the wireless stochastic delay . The rob ustness computation is established on the open loop transfer func- tion. If the controller in (4) is used to control the process G p ( s ) e  L p s of Fig. 1, assuming commutati vity between process deadtime L p and total netw ork dealy ī€œ N , the entire proces s model including netw ork delays under nominal conditions can be e xpressed as G ( s ) = G p ( s ) e  sL ; (5) where, G p ( s ) is the delay free process. Consider some de viations from nominal condition where there is v ariation in both process deadtime and netw ork induced delays, assuming that the delay error is  L 2 [ L min ;  L max ] . IJECE V ol. 7, No. 5, October 2017: 2605 – 2613 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
IJECE ISSN: 2088-8708 2607 -1.2 -1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 -1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 G c G A ω āˆ† L G c G e āˆ’ i ω āˆ† L | | G c āˆ† G | | āˆž | 1 + G c G e āˆ’ i ω āˆ† L | Real Axis Imaginary Axis Figure 2. Open loop transfer function Nyquist plot for nominal system and its uncertainty due to respecti v e v ariation in process  G and total netw ork delay  L . Assume also that the multiplicati v e uncertainty between the nominal process G p ( s ) and the real process G ( s ) is  G ( s ) , then the process model together with uncertainties can be written as G ( s ) = G p ( s )   1 +  G ( s ) G p ( s ) ! e  s ( L + L ) ; (6) If the controller of the system is considered to be G c ( s ) , the nominal open loop in the frequenc y domain gi v en as G c ( i! ) G ( i! ) is thus assumed to be stable and also norm bounded. Consider the Nyquist diagram of the nominal open system ( G c G ) sho wn in Fig. 2, with uncertainty in the delay  L , if point A is rotated through angle  !  L and mo v ed slightly to an y direction j G c  G ( i! ) j = j G c  G ( i! ) e i! ( L + L ) j , it will stay within a circle defined by centre G c G ( i! ) e i! ( L ) and radius jj G c  G ( i! ) jj 1 . The distance from centre G c G ( i! ) e i! ( L ) to the critical point  1 is j 1 + G c  G ( i! ) e i! ( L ) j . This indicates that the upset G c  G ( i! ) e i! ( L + L ) will not dri v e the system unstable as long as j G c  G ( i! ) j < j 1 + G c G ( i! ) e i! ( L ) j ; 8 ! ;  G;  L (7) Di viding (7) by G c G p and assuming e  i! ( L + L ) = 1 , the equation can be written as ī€Œ ī€Œ ī€Œ ī€Œ 1 + Gc ( i! ) G ( i! ) e  i! ( L ) Gc ( i! ) G ( i! ) e  i! ( L ) ī€Œ ī€Œ ī€Œ ī€Œ > ī€Œ ī€Œ ī€Œ ī€Œ  G ( i! ) G p ( i! ) ī€Œ ī€Œ ī€Œ ī€Œ ; (8) Defining the e xtended complementary sensiti vity function as the in v erse of LHS of (8) we ha v e T ( s;  L ) = G c ( s ) G ( s ) e  s  L 1 + G c ( s ) G ( s ) e  s  L ; (9) Therefore, the condition for rob ust stability can be gi v en as ī€ ī€ ī€ ī€  G ( s ) G p ( s ) T ( s;  L ) ī€ ī€ ī€ ī€ 1 < 1 ;  L 2 [ L min ;  L max ] : (10) where  L min and  L max are the lo wer and upper delay v ariation bound,  G is the process model change. If for ease of presentation in this w ork ī€ ī€ ī€  G ( s ) G p ( s ) T ( s;  L ) ī€ ī€ ī€ 1 is represented as ī€ , the rob ust stability condition can no w be written in terms of ī€ as follo ws ī€ < 1 ;  L 2 [ L min ;  L max ] : (11) Rob ustness and Stability Analysis of a Pr edictive PI Contr oller ..... (S. M. Hassan) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
2608 ISSN: 2088-8708 3. RESUL T AND AN AL YSIS F or the purpose of this analysis, we use the model of a thermal chamber gi v en in (12) [16]. The measured netw ork delay as obtained from the netw ork is sho wn in Fig. 3, while the statistics of the delay is gi v en in T able 1. In the result analysis, rob ustness of the controller to changes in both delay and process v ariable for the W irelessHAR T netw ork based on the delay information obtained from the netw ork will be e v aluated in both time and frequenc y domains. The parameters of the PPI controller used for this plant throughout this w ork are K c = 0 : 125 and T i = 9 : 13 s . The simulation results in this w ork will be reported in tw o phases. The first phase will report on rob ustness while the second will focus on stability . G ( s ) = 8 1 + 9 : 13 s e  10 s (12) 0 500 1000 1500 2000 t u  (s) 1 1.5 2 Time (s) 0 500 1000 1500 2000 t d  (s) 1.26 1.28 1.3 Figure 3. Netw ork delay profile T able 1. Netw ork Delay Statistics Delay type Max Min Mean Std. Upstream (s) 2.084 1.214 1.573 0.217 Do wnstream (s) 1.280 1.280 1.280 0.000 3.1. Rob ustness Analysis This section first analyses the rob ustness of the PPI controller to stochastic netw ork delay , then further analysis is pro vided to its rob ustness to process model perturbation. The analysis here is gi v en in the time domain. 3.1.1. Rob ustness to Delay Mismatch T o analyse the performance of the PPI controller to delay mismatches, the plant wit h the controller is simulated to three dif ferent conditions of delay as gi v en in T able 1. These conditions are maxim um, minimum and a v erage delays. Ho we v er , the controller design is based on the a v erage v alue of the delay . The simulation results for this scenario are gi v en in Fig. 4, while the re gions of interest from this table are zoomed in Fig. 5. Numerical figures of the figures are gi v en in T able 2. From both the figures and the table, PPI 1, PPI 2 and PPI 3 represents the three conditions of a v erage, maximum and minimum delays re specti v ely . Thus, it ca n be observ ed that for all cases of delay , the performance of the PPI is still better than that of PI controller in terms of both setpoint tracking and disturbance re gulation ability . F or all the three conditions, the o v ershoot rise time and both settling times of the PPI controller are less than those of the PI controller compared. T able 2. Rob ustness performance of the PPI controller to delay change P arameters PPI 1 PPI 2 PPI 3 PI Rise T ime (s) 19.7659 18.4454 21.4858 26.7562 Settling T ime 1 (s) 55.7688 51.4477 60.3851 99.4896 Settling T ime 2 (s) 269.0980 268.0324 272.1358 301.2938 Ov ershoot (%) 0.0000 0.0050 0.0000 5.8924 IAE 2309.3 2290.7 2341.1 3044.7 IJECE V ol. 7, No. 5, October 2017: 2605 – 2613 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
IJECE ISSN: 2088-8708 2609 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 Response 0 10 20 30 40 A B Setpoint PI PPI 3 PPI 2 PPI 1 Time(s) 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 Input 0 2 4 6 C D PI PPI 3 PPI 2 PPI 1 Figure 4. Rob ustness of the PPI controller to change in netw ork delay . 0 50 100 Response 20 25 30 A 220 240 260 280 300 320 15 20 25 30 B Time(s) 0 50 100 Input 2.5 3 3.5 4 C Time(s) 220 240 260 280 300 320 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 D Figure 5. Zoomed-in vie w of re gions of interest A, B, C and D of Fig. 4. 3.1.2. Rob ustness to Model Mismatch T o analyse the performance of the PPI controller to model mismatches, The plant with the controller is simulated to three dif ferent conditions of model parameters. These conditions are nominal and  10% change in both process g ain K and time constant T . Ho we v er , the controller design is based on the a v erage v alue of the delay . The simulation results for t his scenario are gi v en in Fig. 6 while the re gions of interest from this table are zoomed in Fig. 7. Numerical figures of t he figures are gi v en in T able 3. From both the figures and the table, PPI, PPI +10% and PPI  10% represents the three conditions of nominal, 10% increase and 10% decrease in plant model parameters respect i v ely . Therefore, i t can be observ ed that for all the three cases of nominal, increase and decrease in parameters, the performance of the PPI outperformed than that of PI controller in terms of both setpoint tracking and disturbance re gulation capability . Numerical assessment of settling time before and after disturbance, o v ershoot and IAE also confirmed that the performance of PPI controller is better . Ho we v er , the PI controller responds f aster than PPI-10% with a rise time of about 27s as ag ainst the 29s of the latter . 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 Response 0 10 20 30 40 A B Setpoint PI PPI+10% PPI-10% PPI Time(s) 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 Input 0 2 4 6 8 C D PI PPI+10% PPI-10% PPI Figure 6. Rob ustness of t he PPI control ler to  10% change in model parameters. 0 50 100 Response 20 25 30 A 220 240 260 280 300 320 15 20 25 30 B Time(s) 0 50 100 Input 2.5 3 3.5 4 C Time(s) 220 240 260 280 300 320 4 5 6 D Figure 7. Zoomed-in vie w of re gions of interest A, B, C and D of Fig. 6. 3.2. Stability Analysis This section analyses the stability of the PPI controller in the frequenc y domain through Nyquist plots based on the rob ust stability conditions gi v en in Section 2.2.. First, ana lysis will be gi v en based on the delay statistics of Rob ustness and Stability Analysis of a Pr edictive PI Contr oller ..... (S. M. Hassan) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
2610 ISSN: 2088-8708 T able 3. Rob ustness performance of the PPI controller to model mismatch P arameters PPI PPI +10% PPI  10% PI Rise T ime (s) 19.7698 15.4891 29.4930 26.7578 Settling T ime 1 (s) 55.7806 68.5160 78.6990 99.4898 Settling T ime 2 (s) 269.1218 261.5824 280.7254 301.3191 Ov ershoot (%) 0.0000 3.8335 0.0000 5.8919 IAE 2184.9 2169.6 2358.3 2920.2 T able 1 and  10% change in model parameters as discussed in S ection 3.1.2., then a v ariation of both delay and model parameters of up to  20% will be analysed for stability . 3.2.1. Stability of PPI Contr oller Under W ir elessHAR T Netw ork Delay and Model Mismatch The Nyquist pl ot of the plant for mean, maximum and minimum W irelessHAR T netw ork delays in T able 1 is gi v en in Fig. 8 while the plot for plant with  10% model misma tch is gi v en in Fig. 9. From the first figure, it can be seen that the Nyquist plots for all the three delay condition satisfy the Nyquist stability criteria. The second figure contains the Nyquist plots of the plant with both delay and model mism atches. T o further confirm the stability of controller at these conditions, the rob ust stability condition gi v en in Section 2.2. is tested for dif ferent frequencies as gi v en in the results of T able 4. It is noted as gi v en in the table that for all the frequencies considered, the rob ust stability condition is met. -1 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 -1 -0.5 0 0.5 Average delay Maximum delay Minimum delay Nyquist Diagram Real Axis Imaginary Axis Figure 8. Nyquist plot for mean, maximum and mini- mum netw ork delays. -1 -0.5 0 0.5 -1 -0.5 0 0.5 Avg delay + Nominal Max delay + 10% mismatch Min delay - 10% mismatch Nyquist Diagram Real Axis Imaginary Axis Figure 9. Nyquist plot for nom inal,  10% in model mismatch. T able 4. Rob ust stability test of PPI controller at dif ferent frequencies ! ( r ad=s ) ī€ ī€ < 1?  max  min 0.1 0.0269 0.0357 Y es 1 6.41  10  4 9.12  10  4 Y es 10 6.54  10  6 9.30  10  6 Y es 100 6.55  10  8 9.31  10  8 Y es 3.2.2. Stability of PPI Contr oller Under  20% Delay and Model Mismatches T o further ensure that the PPI controller will maintain stability e v en with wider range of paramet er v aria- tions,  20% mismatches in both model parameters and netw ork delay are considered. The corresponding Nyquist IJECE V ol. 7, No. 5, October 2017: 2605 – 2613 Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
IJECE ISSN: 2088-8708 2611 plots are sho wn in Fig. 10. The tw o rob ust stability conditions of (7) and (11) are applied at frequenc y ! = 0 : 6 r ad=s . The result of this stability test is gi v en in T able 5. From the table, it is sho wn that the PPI controlled plant is stable at that frequenc y e v en with the lar ge perturbation. -1 -0.5 0 0.5 -1 -0.5 0 0.5 A 2 r A o A 1 r L 2 L 1 Nominal 20% mismatch -20% mismatch Nyquist Diagram Real Axis Imaginary Axis Figure 10. Nyquist plot for  20% mismatches in both delay and model parameters ! = 0 : 6 r ad=s . T able 5. Rob ust stability test of PPI to model and delay v ariations at dif ferent frequencies P arameter change ī€ Length ( L ) Radius ( r ) ī€ < 1? r < L ?  max 0.5716 0.6450 0.1301 Y es Y es  min 0.3888 1.0080 0.1402 Y es Y es 4. CONCLUSION This paper has discussed the rob ustness and stability of a PPI controller when used in a wireless netw ork ed en vironment. The rob ust stability analysis is based on the condition deri v ed from the e xtended complementary sensiti vity function which handles si multaneously both process parameter changes and delay v ariations. It has been found from the analysis result that the plant controlled with the PPI controller still retains stability e v en with wide v ariation of model parameters and delay . This implies that the PPI control though s imple in design, can handle the challenges of uncertainties associated with wireless netw ork ed control. A CKNO WLEDGEMENT The authors of this paper ackno wledge the support of Uni v ersiti T eknologi PETR ON AS for the a w ard of Graduate Assistantship scheme. REFERENCES [1] S. Petersen and S. Carlsen, ā€œW irelessHAR T v ersus ISA100. 11a: The format w ar hits the f actory floor, ā€ IEEE Industrial Electr onics Ma gazine , v ol. 5, no. 4, pp. 23–34, 2011. Rob ustness and Stability Analysis of a Pr edictive PI Contr oller ..... (S. M. Hassan) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.
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IJECE ISSN: 2088-8708 2613 Rosdiazli Ibrahim recei v ed the B.Eng. (Hons.) de gree in electrical engineering from Uni v ersiti Pu- tra Malaysia, K embang an, Malaysia, in 1996, the M.Sc. (Hons.) de gree in automation and control from Ne wcastle Uni v ersity , Ne wcastle upon T yne, U.K., in 2000, and the Ph.D. de gree in electrical and el ectronic engineering from the Uni v ersity of Glasgo w , Glasgo w , U.K., in 2008. He is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Uni- v ersiti T eknologi PETR ON AS, Seri Iskanar , Perak, Malaysia. His current research i nterests include intelligent control and non-linear multi-v ariable process modelling for control application. Nordin Saad recei v ed the B.S.E.E. de gree from Kansas State Uni v ersity , Manhattan, KS, USA, the M.Sc. de gree in po wer electronics engineering from Loughborough Uni v ersity , Loughbor - ough, U.K., and the Ph.D. de gree in automatic control systems engineering from the Uni v ersity of Shef field, Shef field, U.K. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Elec- trical and Electronics Engineering, Uni v ers iti T eknologi Petronas, Perak, Malaysia. His current research interests include electrical dri v es control, fuzzy and e xpert systems, model predict i v e con- trol, computer control of industrial processes, f ailure analys is for diagnostic condition monitoring systems, smart sensors and field intelligence, smart grid, and netw ork ed and wireless control. Dr . Saad is a member of the Institute of Measurement and Control, U.K. V ijanth Sagayan Asir v adam recei v ed the B.Sc. (Hons.) de gree in statistic from Uni v ersiti Putra Malaysia, K embang an, Malaysia, in 1997, and the M .Sc. (Hons.) de gree in engineering compu- tation and the Ph.D. de gree with a focus on online a nd constructi v e neural learning methods from Queens Uni v ersity Belf ast, Belf ast, U.K. He joined the Intelligent Systems and Control Research Group, Queens Uni v ersity Belf ast, in 1999. He serv es as an Associate Professor with the Depart- ment of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Uni v ersiti T eknologi Petronas, Perak, Malaysia, where he is the Head of the Health Informatics Modeling Group with the Ce nter of Intelligent Signal and Imaging Research. His current research interest includes linear and nonlinear system identification and model v alidation in the field of computational intelligence, control, and signal and image processing. Kishor e Bingi recei v ed the B.T ech. (Hons.) de gre e in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Bapatla Engineering Colle ge (BEC), Bapatla, Andhra pradesh, India, in 2012, and the M.T ech (Hons.) de gree in Instrumentation and Control Systems from National Insti tute of T echnology (NIT) Calicut, Calicut, K erala, India, in 2014. He w ork ed with T A T A consultanc y service as an Assistant systems Engineer from 2015 to 2016. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. de gree with the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Departm ent, Uni v ersiti T eknologi Petronas (UTP), Perak, Malaysia. His current research interests include process modeling, control and optimization. T ran Duc Chung w as born in H Long, V ietnam, in 1989. He recei v ed the B.E.E.E. (Hons.) de gree in instrumentati on and control from Uni v ersiti T eknologi Petronas (UTP), Perak, Malaysia, in 2014, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. de gree with a focus on wireless netw ork ed control system for industrial applications. His current research interests include adv anced process control with predicti v e and adapti v e mechanisms, big data processi ng and analysis, and artificial intelligence. Mr . Chung recei v ed the V ice Chancellor A w ard and the Best International Student A w ard from UTP in 2014, the PETR ON AS Full-T ime Scholarship in 2009, and the Third Prize in the National Ph ysics Competition from the Bureau of Educational T esting and Quality Accreditation, Ministry of Education, V ietnam, in 2007. Rob ustness and Stability Analysis of a Pr edictive PI Contr oller ..... (S. M. Hassan) Evaluation Warning : The document was created with Spire.PDF for Python.