Passivity-based controllers (PBCs) achieve stabilization of nonlinear systems, rendering the closed-loop passive with a desired energy (storage) function.
He replaced police commanders whom he considered passive with other retired Army officers.
Mitt Romney thinks Obama has been "passive" with the Islamists; aid could be slashed.
The chorus of celestial spirits must be completely passive, with no forward pressure on the voice at all.
Their poses are also passive, with only the slightest indication of movement, and their physiognomies remain slender.
In most of the male-female couplings, the woman is passive, with the man seemingly attacking, often from above.
Let a major politician take cover in the passive with something like "mistakes were made," fuzzing accountability, and critics will rightly call him on it.
The Kansas senior guard Kirk Hinrich, surprisingly passive with 8 points in a 64-61 victory against No. 15 Utah State in the first round, reasserted himself tonight.
It allowed my character, who is very passive with other characters in the film, to be aggressive and monologuey to the audience in the theater, but then return to the narrative".
Epstein said he felt that the Red Sox had become too passive with their program, so they increased their innings and pitch counts by about 10 to 15percentthisiseasonon.
Elsewhere just to watch him fall is touching: his whole role (often passive with or subservient to Ms. Halzack throughout their duet) displays the vulnerability of his very hunkiness.
