Malcolm Good

Error-Bounded Reference Tracking MPC for Machines with Structural Flexibility

Meng Yuan, Chris Manzie, Malcolm Good, Iman Shames, Lu Gan, Farzad Keynejad, Troy Robinette

Journal article  |  2020  |  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

For industrial contouring and machining applications such as laser cutting, it is desirable to be able to bound errors without und..

A review of industrial tracking control algorithms

M Yuan, C Manzie, M Good, I Shames, L Gan, F Keynejad, T Robinette

Journal article  |  2020  |  Control Engineering Practice

Advanced manufacturing is characterised by machines that move an end effector through a given trajectory to perform operations suc..

Bounded error tracking control for contouring systems with end effector measurements

M Yuan, C Manzie, M Good, I Shames, F Keynejad, T Robinette

Conference Proceedings  |  2019

© 2019 IEEE. Many industrial applications of machining require a bounded tracking error during transient and steady processes. Tra..

Modelling and Contouring Error Bounded Control of a Biaxial Industrial Gantry Machine

Meng Yuan, Chris Manzie, Lu Gan, Malcolm Good, Iman Shames

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  2019 3RD IEEE CONFERENCE ON CONTROL TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS (IEEE CCTA 2019)

Dual drive gantry machines are widely used in industry for manufacturing. However, the non-synchronised movement of the dual drive..

Receding horizon time-optimal control for a class of differentially flat systems

D Lam, C Manzie, MC Good, RR Bitmead

Journal article  |  2015  |  Systems and Control Letters

Abstract A closed-loop, time-optimal path-following control scheme is proposed for a class of constrained differentially flat syst..

Multi-axis model predictive contouring control

Denise Lam, Chris Manzie, Malcolm C Good

Journal article  |  2013  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTROL

Contouring systems involve competing control objectives of maximising accuracy while minimising traversal time. A previously devel..

Model Predictive Control for Reference Tracking on an Industrial Machine Tool Servo Drive

Michael A Stephens, Chris Manzie, Malcolm C Good

Journal article  |  2013  |  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS

The benefits of model predictive control (MPC) have been well established; however its application to reference tracking on digita..

Model Predictive Contouring Control for Biaxial Systems

Denise Lam, Chris Manzie, Malcolm C Good

Journal article  |  2013  |  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY

Many biaxial contouring systems involve competing control objectives of maximizing accuracy while minimizing traversal time. A mod..

Control-Oriented Modeling Requirements of a Direct-Drive Machine Tool Axis

Michael A Stephens, Chris Manzie, Malcolm C Good

Journal article  |  2012  |  JOURNAL OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

The high performance demands on commercial computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools have led to the widespread adoption of d..

Ballistic movements on data-entry keypads

Christopher KW Leong, Errol R Hoffmann, Malcolm C Good

Journal article  |  2011  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ERGONOMICS

Research to date on movement times on data-entry keypads has assumed that the movements are made under visual control [Drury, C.G...