Bücher der Reihe Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences

This monograph deals with approximation and noise cancellation of dynamical systems which include linear and nonlinear input/output relations. It will be of special interest to researchers and engineers who specialize in filtering theory and system theory.

A typical design procedure for model predictive control or control performance monitoring consists of: 1. design of the control law or calculation of performance indices according to the predictor. Both design problems need an explicit model form and both require this three-step design procedure.

This collected volume demonstrates the importance of these emerging areas in the current research agenda in science and technology and shows that a unique opportunity exists to drastically extend the scope and impact of dynamics and control methods far beyond their traditional areas of application in engineering.

Contains papers presented at the First Ruperto-Carola-Symposium Fast Motions in Biomechanics and Robotics - Optimization & Feedback Control, held in 2005. The aim of this symposium was to provide a forum for an interdisciplinary community of researchers to enhance the understanding of the control of fast motions in nature and engineering.

One of the major application targets of service robots is to use them as assistive devices for rehabilitation. Significant parts of the book are devoted to the assessment of new rehabilitation technologies, the evaluation of prototype devices with end-users, the safety of rehabilitation robots, and robot-assisted neurorehabilitation.

A selection of papers exploring a wide spectrum of new trends in nonlinear dynamics and control, such as bifurcation control, state estimation and reconstruction, analysis of behavior and stabilities, dynamics of nonlinear neural network models, and numerical algorithms.

Robotics applications, initially developed for industrial and manufacturing contexts, are now strongly present in several elds. The task of designing robots for these applications is a hard challenge: a speci c competence in each area is demanded, in the e ort of a truly integrated multidisciplinary design.

This monograph presents the fundamentals as well as the application techniques of servo control systems, which are a key element of Mechatronics. The industrial applications and problems of Mechatronic Servo System Control are demonstrated as well as its theoretical and applicable solutions.

This book develops for the first time a complete and connected nonlinear theory for the analog Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) which clarifies the obscure points of its complex non-linear behaviour. The book suggests new non-linear models for the PLL components and applies the averaging method to analyse PLL.

The book presents an introductory and comprehensive treatment of resilient controller design methods placing great emphasis on the derivation of necessary and sufficient design conditions and on the use of linear matrix inequalities as a convenient computational tool.

This monograph systematically presents the existing identification methods of nonlinear systems using the block-oriented approach It surveys various known approaches to the identification of Wiener and Hammerstein systems which are applicable to both neural network and polynomial models.

Presents the main results appeared in the literature on the topic of robust control of dynamical systems, with particular reference to the robust stability problem for linear systems subject to time-varying uncertainties. This book mainly focuses on those problems for which a definitive solution has been found.

This volume originates from the Third Nonlinear Control Workshop "- namics, Bifurcations and Control", held in Kloster Irsee, April 1-3 2001. As the preceding workshops held in Paris (2000) and in Ghent (1999), it was organized within the framework of Nonlinear Control Network funded by the European Union (http://www.supelec.fr/lss/NCN).

In this book recent results of the GARTEUR (Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe) Action Group FM (AG11) are presented.

This research report brings together present trends in advanced welding robots, robotic welding, artificial intelligent and automatic welding. Modeling, identification and control of the welding process are presented, as well as knowledge-based systems for welding and tele-robotic welding.

This book reports on the new results in Abstract Systems Theory (AST). It shows the progress made so far in the effort launched in 1960 to develop a mathematical theory of systems based on the "top-down"-formalization-approach. The volume can be used as a supplementary reading in courses in systems theory and engineering.

This monograph grew out of a combined effort to prove a conjecture concerning the characterization of Hamiltonian control systems in terms of their variational input-output behaviour. Indeed, the study of Hamiltonian control systems is one of the places where (theoretical) physics and systems and control theory meet.

Robots able to imitate human beings have been at the core of stories of science?ctionaswellasdreamsofinventorsforalongtime.Amongthe various skills that Mother Nature has provided us with and that often go forgotten, the ability of sight is certainly one of the most important.

This book deals with the problem of detecting and localizing multiple simultaneously active wideband acoustic sources by applying the notion of wavefield decomposition using circular and spherical microphone arrays.

This book reports on cutting-edge work by the 21 leading research teams studying variable structure systems and sliding mode control. Covering basic concepts and algorithms as well as analysis and applications, it is a must-read for control systems engineers.

Positioning systems measure the location of one or moreobjects. This approach allows the derivationof performance limits,estimates of optimal configuration,reasoning about classes of systems, direct comparisonbetween positioning and communication systems, and estimatesof the source information rate of moving objects.

This book covers dosage and timing optimization in oral drug administration; measurement and control of blood glucose levels in diabetes; control of depth of anaesthesia with fuzzy and state feedback controllers and more. Each chapter includes exercises.

In the 60's, control, signals and systems had a common linear algebraic background and, according to their evolution, their respective backgrounds have now dramatically differed.

Regarding digital images as special input/output relations in the authors' previous book in the series Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, the description problem of digital images is transformed into the realization problem of digital images.

Physical, safety and technological constraints suggest that control actuators can neither provide unlimited amplitude signals nor unlimited speed of reaction. Such methods are well suited for the development of tools that help engineers to solve analysis and synthesis problems of control systems with input and output constraints.

Advanced Topics in Control and Estimation of State-Multiplicative Noisy Systems will be of interest to engineers engaged in control systems research and development, to graduate students specializing in stochastic control theory, and to applied mathematicians interested in control problems.

Singular time-delay systems are very suitable to describe a lot of practical systems such as manufacturing systems, networked control systems, power systems and electrical circuits.

Switched delay systems appear in a wide field of applications including networked control systems, power systems, memristive systems.