Bücher der Reihe Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences

Featuring new and efficient learning techniques for stochastic optimization, and with examples illustrating the practical application of these techniques, this volume will be of benefit to practicing control engineers and to graduate students taking courses in optimization, control theory or statistics.

Control architectures are considered according to increasing degrees of cooperation of local controllers: fully distributed or decentralized control, control with communication between controllers, coordination control, and multilevel control.

Information and Control in Networks demonstrates the way in which system dynamics and information flows intertwine as they evolve, and the central role played by information in the control of complex networked systems.

This book is a collection of contributions defining the state of current knowledge and new trends in hybrid systems - systems involving both continuous dynamics and discrete events - as described by the work of several well-known groups of researchers.

The papers presented are extended versions of about 100 lectures (plenary lectures as well as lectures of the parallel sessions) of the conference.

Through the past 20 years, the framework of Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems has become a promising system theoretical approach to handle the control of mildly nonlinear and especially position dependent systems which are common in mechatronic applications and in the process industry.

Analysis and Synthesis of Networked Control Systems focuses on essential aspects of this field, including quantization over networks, data fusion over networks, predictive control over networks and fault detection over networks.

This monograph presents a detailed and unified treatment of the theory of reduced order systems. Topics include reduced order modeling, reduced order estimation, reduced order control, and the design of reduced order compensators for stochastic systems.

This book presents an overview over smart structures - its concepts, its active involvement in the vibration control, their applications and the extensive research work done.

It presents a comprehensive, up-to-date, and detailed treatment of many interesting topics, such as stability analysis, stabilization, fuzzy variable structure control, fuzzy tracking control, fuzzy observer design, and filter design for T-S fuzzy systems with time delay.

Design of modern digital hardware systems and of complex software systems is almost always connected with parallelism. Usually a system of several objects is to be controlled, and then the control algorithm naturally turns to be parallel.

Across the globe, the past several years have seen a tremendous increase in the role of cooperative autonomous systems.

INRIA, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique

Saturation nonlinearities are ubiquitous in engineering systems: every physical actuator or sensor is subject to saturation owing to its maximum and minimum limits. Therefore, the practical application of control theory cannot avoid taking into account saturation nonlinearities in actuators, explicitly dealing with constraints in control design.

This book provides an update of the latest research in control of time delay systems and applications by world leading experts. It will appeal to engineers, researchers and students in Control.

This volume is the outcome of the first CASY workshop on "Advances in Control Theory and Applications" which was held at University of Bologna on May 22-26, 2006.

Time delays exist in many engineering systems such as transportation, communication, process engineering and networked control systems. This monograph presents simple analytical solutions to control and estimation problems for systems with multiple i/o delays via elementary tools such as projection.

This volume covers a wide variety of papers on learning, control and hybrid systems. Specific topics include: learning in dynamical systems, randomized algorithms in robust control design, identification of systems, digital signal processing, robust and H-infinity control, control of hybrid systems and supervisory control.

From the preface: "These proceedings contain 73 contributed papers selected from among those presented at the 13th IFIP Conference System Modelling and Optimization, Tokyo, Japan, August 31 - September 4, 1987, as well as 4 papers for the plenary sessions of the Conference.

The field of modern mathematical system theory has its origins in the work of R.E. The volume Three Decades of Mathematical System Theory surveys the developments in this field by presenting 21 articles covering the broad area of system and control theory.

The purpose of the Conference on Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations was to bring together leading experts in this field and to exchange ideas and information about recent advances in control theory connected with partial differential equations.

Processes which are heavily non-linear or complex pose difficult problems for automatic control systems, yet can often be handled easily by human operators. This volume reviews a decade of research into control systems and artificial intelligence designed to imitate human behaviour.

- Mathematical Programming- Algorithms: -Computational Geometry. - DiscreteOptimization. - Linear programming and Complementarity. -Nonlinear Programming. - Optimal Control: - ControlProblems. - Distributed Parameter Systems; - Computer-aided Modelling and Design. - Economy and Energy. - Financial Services. - Stochastic Modelling.

In a competitive world, research in manufacturing systems plays an important role in creating, updating and improving the technologies and management practices of the economy.

This volume contains the proceedings of ICAOS '96 the 12th International Conference on Analysis and Optimization of Systems. The aim of the conference was to discuss the impact on image analysis of recent mathematical developments in multiscale analysis, partial differential equations, variational methods and so on.