Recent publications

Papers in Journals

  1. Z. Brand, M. O. Cole, and N. Razoronov. An active tool holder and robust LPV control design for practical vibration suppression in internal turning, International Journal of Control Engineering Practice.
  2. T. Hongphan, Z. Brand, and M. O. Cole. A model-free learning approach for active damping of a rotating cylindrical shell using ADP control with rotating-frame state reconstruction technique, Journal of Sound and Vibration.
  3. Y. Romasevych, L. Viatcheslav, and Z. Brand. Advanced PSO Algorithms with Combined lbest and gbest Neighborhood Topologies, Cybernetics and Information Technologies, September 2024.
  4. G. Tamsut, Z. Brand and Y. Romasevych. Indirect PSO Inspired Adaptive Active Control for Vibration Suppression in Smart Cantilever Beams, Journal of Sound and Vibration. (In preparation).
  5. T. Hongphan, M. O. Cole, C. Chamroon and Z. Brand. Control System Design for Low Power Magnetic Bearings in a Flywheel Energy Storage System, Energy Engineering. Energy Engineering, 120(1), 147–161 (2023).
  6. Z. Brand, M. O.T. Cole. Min-max optimization of actuator placement for vibration control of a thin-walled cylindrical rotor over a range of rotational speeds. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 506 (2021) 116105, August 2021.
  7. Z. Brand, M. O.T. Cole. Piezo-based flexural vibration suppression for an annular rotor via rotating-frame H2 control optimization. Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, June 17, 2021.
  8. Z. Brand, M. O. T. Cole, W. Fakkaew, and C. Chamroon, Vibration Modelling and Control Experiments for a Thin-Walled Cylindrical Rotor with Piezo Patch Actuation and Sensing, Eng. J., vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 127-137, Nov. 2020.
  9. Z. Brand, M.O.T. Cole. Controllability and actuator placement optimization for active damping of a thin rotating ring with piezo-patch transducers, Journal of Sound and Vibration. 472 (2020) 115172, January 2020.
  10. S. Basovich, S. Arogeti, Y. Menaker, Z. Brand. Magnetically Levitated Six-DOF Precision Positioning Stage with Uncertain Payload. IEEE-ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Volume: 21 (2), pp. 660-673, April 2016.
  11. Y. Friedman, E. Yudkin, I. Nowik, I. Felner, H.-C Wille, R. Röhlsberger, J. Haber, G. Wortmann, S. Arogeti, M. Friedman, Z. Brand, N. Levi, I. Shafir, O. Efrati, T. Frumson, A. Finkelstein, A. I. Chumakov, I. Kantor, R. Rüffer.  Synchrotron Radiation Mössbauer Spectra of Rotating Absorber with Implications for Testing Velocity and Acceleration Time Dilation. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Vol. 22 (Part 3), pp. 723-728, May 2015.
  12. A. Capua, Y. Nissim, Z. Brand, A. Shapiro. H∞ Robust Control via Singular Value Decomposition as a Design Tool for Continuous Dynamic Systems. Journal of Research and Applications in Mechanical Engineering, Volume 1(3):15-20, August 2013.

Papers in referred conference proceedings (full papers)

  1. T. Hongphan, M. O. Cole and Z. Brand. Adaptive model-free control for vibration suppression in thin-walled rotating workpieces during turning processes, The 14th TSME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Thailand, Dec. 2024, (under review).
  2. Z. Brand, G. Tamsut and Y. Romasevych. Optimizing Active Proof-Mass Damper in Cantilever Beam Structures: An Indirect Randomized PSO Approach for Enhanced Control and Stability, 8th International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD’24), Paris, France, May 2024.
  3. Y. Romasevych, L. Viatcheslav, and Z. Brand. Influence of Swarm Connectivity on l-best PSO Performance, IEEE KhPI Week, 2024, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
  4. A. Hatav, Z. Brand and M. O. Cole. Model-free optimal control of a thin-walled rotating cylinder with piezo-electric patches using a particle swarm optimization approach, IEEE ICCAD conference, May 2023.
  5. T. Hongphan, M. O. Cole, C. Chamroon and Z. Brand. H-infinity controller design for efficiency optimization of magnetic bearings in a flywheel energy storage system, Energy Engineering. AIP Conference Proceedings 2681, 020038 (Nov. 2022).
  6. Z. Brand, S. Arogeti and A. Yuhananov, "Results on Chatter Reduction in Turning Process Through Active Inertial Actuator - Demonstration with an Experimental System," 2022 International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD), Lisbon, Portugal, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICCAD55197.2022.9853928.
  7. Z. Brand and M. O. Cole. Results on active damping control of a thin-walled rotating cylinder with piezoelectric patch actuation and sensing. Third IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Hong Kong, 2019, pp. 245-251, August 2019. (4 Citations).
  8. Z. Brand, S. Arogeti. Extended model and control of regenerative chatter vibrations in orthogonal cutting. Conference: 2018 15th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, pp. 727-232, November 2018.
  9. T. Ben-Moha, S. Basovich, M. M. Peretz, S. Arogeti, Z. Brand. Digitally controlled switch-mode power driver for active magnetic bearings. Proceedings of the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Pittsburgh, September 2014. Page(s): 3030-3035. (3 Citations).
  10. S. Basovich, T. Ben-Moha, M. Peretz, S. Arogeti, Z. Brand. Switch-mode current amplifier for active magnetic bearings. Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Magnetic Bearings (ISMB14), Linz, Austria, August 2014. Page(s): 633-638.
  11. S. Basovich, S. Arogeti, Z. Brand. Adaptive output zero-bias tracking control of 1DOF AMB suspension system. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2014), Singapore, December 2014. Page(s): 151 – 156. (4 Citations).
  12. S. Basovich, S. Arogeti, Z. Brand, N. Levi. Nonlinear control of a novel active magnetic bearings technology based high-precision positioning stage. 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control & Automation (MED), IEEE, pp.1464-1469, 2013. (4 Citations).
  13. A. Kuperman, S. Arogeti, Z. Brand, Q.-C. Zhong. Robust UDE-based control of active magnetic bearing for flywheel applications. Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion (ESARS 2012), IEEE, Italy, October 2012. Page(s): 1-5. (6 Citations).
  14. A. Capua, Y. Nissim, Z. Brand, A. Shapiro. H∞ Robust control via singular value decomposition as a design Tool for continuous dynamic systems. The Second TSME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, October 2011.
  15. S. Arogeti, O. Katsir, Z. Brand, S. Gruntman. Active Magnetic Bearing Control Laws and Their Applications in Flywheel Energy Storage Systems. The First National Conference on Advanced Industrial Control, AIC 2010, Beer-Sheva, Israel, March 2010.
  16. A. Capua, Z. Brand, A. Shapiro, G. Rodnay. A Generic Tool Based on Singular Value Decomposition for Heat Source Design. ICME, The 31st Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, June 2008.
  17. Z. Brand, N. Berman, G. Rodnay. Design and Simulation of Low Order Control Laws for High Order Thermal Models. Proceedings of the 9th Biennial ASME Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, Haifa, Israel, 2008. Page(s): 457-462.
  18. Z. Brand, N. Berman, G. Rodnay. Applying Modern Control Theory on Numerical Models for Controller Design and Reverse Problem Solution of Thermal Systems. The 25th Israel Symposium on Computational Mechanics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 2007.
  19. Z. Brand, N. Berman, G. Rodnay. Controller design for large scale thermal models: integrating numerical models and modern control theory via balanced truncation. COMSOL Conference 2007, Grenoble, France, Invited presentation.

Papers in referred conference proceedings (abstract only)

  1. R. R. Eyal and Z. Brand. Genetic Optimization Control of a Cantilever Beam with Tuned Mass Damper Device. 2nd IEEE, Conference on Machine Learning in Engineering (MLE-2023), 03 May 2023, Beer Sheva, Israel.
  2. M. Lotem and Z. Brand. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Based Linear Quadratic Regulator for the Active Vibration of a Cantilever Beam by Using a Tuned Mass Damper Device. 2nd IEEE, Conference on Machine Learning in Engineering (MLE-2023), 03 May 2023, Beer Sheva, Israel.
  3. D. Lilienthal, Z. Brand and E. Fisher. Machine Learning Based Control Algorithm for Active Vibration Suppression of a Mechanical Flexure Hinge. Conference on “Machine Learning in Engineering (MLE-2022), 26 April 2022, Beer Sheva, Israel.
  4. Z. Brand, A. Lewinstein, N. Levi, I. Shafir, L. Belapolsky, L. Kirshner, S. Arogeti, Active chatter control in orthogonal cutting, Conference. The 35th Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering – ICME 2018At: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, October 2018.
  5. U. Tamir, E. Nizri, O. Katsir, I. Shafir, Z. Brand, A. Lewinstein. Novel impact damage modal for preloaded systems. The Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, March 2013.
  6. B. Rozbaum, Z. Brand, A. Capua and A. Shapiro. Optimal design of heat sources. Best Poster award at the 32nd Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, October 2012, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  7. S. Basovich, S. Arogeti, Z. Brand. Set-point regulation of an electro-magnetic actuator with uncertain parameters by an iterative control scheme. The 32nd Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 2012.
  8. S. Arogeti, Z. Brand, N. Deri, L. Edry, N. Levy. High Precision Electromagnetic Stabilized Platform. The second National Conference on Advanced Industrial Control, AIC 2010, Beer-Sheva, Israel, March 2011.
  9. A. Capua, Z. Brand, A. Shapiro, G. Rodnay. Singular Value Decomposition, a Design Tool for Continuous Dynamic Systems. The 2nd Israeli Conference for Advanced Industrial Control, May 2011, Beer Sheva, Israel.
  10. A. Kuperman, S. Arogeti, Z. Brand. Robust Control of Active Magnetic Bearing for Flywheel Energy Storage Systems. The 31st Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 2010.
  11. S. Arogeti, Z. Brand, O. Katsir, A. Capua. The Influence of Nonlinear Electromagnetic Characteristics in Linear Control Design Framework for Active Magnetic Bearing. The 31st Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Tel-Aviv, Israel, June 2010.
  12. Z. Brand, E. Brandes, G. Rodnay. Point to point fuzzy-logic control for AGV with differential drive. The 30th Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 2005, Israel.
  13. Z. Brand, I. Cohen, E. Kochavi, B. Ostrich, G. Rodnay. Integration of temperature control algorithm in fluent finite volume model for close loop transient simulation and design. The 30th Israeli Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 2005, Israel.

Invited Talks

  1. Z. Brand, “Enhanced machining processes based on active vibration control”, Association of Engineers in Israel, Jun 2022.
  2. Z. Brand, “Smart machining tools: advanced research and technological innovation”, Association of Engineers in Israel, May 2024.

 

Research Grants

2024-2025                   Ziv Brand (SCE – Shamoon college of engineering). Smart turning tool. Grant from Israel Innovation Authority [Grant 83647], 650,000NIS (24 months).

2023-2024                   Ziv Brand (SCE – Shamoon college of engineering), Yuriy Romasevych (NUBiP – National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine). Development of new modifications of PSO method and their application in engineering problems. Grant from Ministry of Innovation, Science & Technology of Israel [Grant 0005185] and Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine [Grant M/67-2023], 19,000$ (24 months).

 

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