Bücher der Reihe Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences

This volume comprises the proceedings of the Working Conference "Boundary variations and boundary control" held in Nice (France), June 10-13, 1986.

The papers demonstrate that there is a large common core underlying these efforts, that researchers in one area can benefit from advances in other areas of discrete systems, and that it is not difficult to translate results expressed in one discrete event formation into another.

This monograph provides a sample of relevant new results on dynamical nonlinear statistical modeling and estimation which forms a basis for more effective signal processing, decision and control.

The monograph contains sections reviewing ideas from classical control theory that are extended to multivariable systems, a summary of work we have done on design limitation in scalar systems, and a review of some previous work on extending classical ideas to a multivariable setting.

The purpose of this research monograph is to utilize algebraic and systems theory for the structure analysis and design of multivariable control systems described by state-space representations and matrix fraction descriptions.

This book comprises the proceedings of one of the most important international conferences in robotics. The connection between biomechanics, robotics, and other related sciences is examined, as well as the biomechanical aspects currently applied in the theory and practice of manipulators and robots.

This book presents a state-of-the-art report on the following more specific area: the system classes under consideration contain linear (possibly nonlinearly perturbed), finite dimensional, continuous time systems which are stabilizable by high-gain output feedback.

From the preface: "The book is written for scientists, practicing engineers and students interested in the analysis of system dynamics.

The monograph is addressed to researchers in the field of geometric theory of infinite dimensional systems. The author uses basic concepts of the infinite dimensional system theory, approximate controllability, initial observability, which are covered in the second and third chapter.

This book merges two major areas of control: the design of control systems and adaptive control. Original contributions are made in the polynomial approach to stochastic optimal control and the resulting control laws are then manipulated into a form suitable for application in the self-tuning control framework.

This monograph is sums up the development of singular system theory and provides the control circle with a systematic theory of the system.

This volume contains fifteen articles on the topic of differential and dynamic games, focusing on both theory and applications. It should be useful to researchers in differential and dynamic games, systems and control, operations research and mathematical economics.

This book is devoted to Large Scale Systems methodologies including decomposition, aggregation, and model reduction techniques. Graduate students concerned with system and control theory will be interested in this book, since it offers a global synthesis on the problem of structurally constrained control.

Part I of this book accounts for new developments concerning robustness, systems with two time scales and related treatments utilizing singular perturbation analysis. Part II is mainly concerned with systems in which uncertainty comes out through quantum mechanical rules;

This conference on nonlinear control theory was organized within a special "Nonlinear Year" of the French "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique".

This monograph considers the integration of knowledge-based soft control with hard control algorithms. Furthermore, knowledge-based control such as fuzzy control, when directly included in the servo loop, has produced insatisfactory performance in research robots.

The main objective of this monograph is to develop efficient techniques for tackling the control problems of partially-known dynamical systems. The book concentrates on reduced-order adaptive control schemes and deterministic stabilizing control methodologies.

The 4th Bad Honnef Conference on Stochastic Differential Systems highlighted recent advances in the areas of stochastic control and filtering theory as well as stochastic analysis.

Zetterberg, who is the pioneer of information and coding theory in Sweden, and his direct and indirect influence on the evaluation in Sweden of these topics is quite considerable. The five papers together provide a good and representative sample of Swedish research activities within the field of coding theory.

This international conference on "Advances in Communications and Control Systems" was held to bring together researchers in communications, control systems, computing and signal processing to explore common themes and present research results of broad interest.

This book is a research monograph that addresses the basic issues in controlling large, flexible space structures (LFSS), and presents some controller synthesis methods developed by the author.

The object of this book is to present a systematic method for auxiliary signal design in fault detection and diagnosis. The book can also be used as a tutorial material for final year undergraduates, especially those who work on a project related to test signal designs, fault detection or modeling.

The meeting intended to continue the traditional line of the foregoing conferences and to focus on topics of present research in the field of stochastic systems and optimization.

This monograph concerns the design of feedback controllers for multivariable linear dynamic systems. The design of controllers to robustly stabilize such a family is posed as an H? Finally, the results are exploited to give a systematic loop shaping control system design procedure that is assessed on several aerospace examples.

The objective of this workshop was to bring together engineers from industry and scientists from universities to focus attention on new developments and practical enhancements for using adaptive control in industry.

The scope of this volume is to provide a forum dedicated to Experimental Robotics. The focus is on theoretical work which has been validated through experimental implementation. The papers are research papers pre- senting new results which reflect the conjecture-experimental cycle that researchers have gone through.

This book deals with algebraic criteria for root clustering (inclusion) in general regions in the complex plane. First, given a linear dynamical system, it is possible to analyze its relative stability. Second, for that system it is possible to construct a dynamic controller of fixed order for closed loop relative stability.

The three Workshops on Control Mechanics held annually since 1988 at the University of Southern California made substantial contribution to the above set of topics and have established a tradition in the interface between mechanics and control.

These notes are an introduction to implicit models of linear dynamical systems, with applications to modelling, control system design, and identification, intended for control-system engineers at the beginning graduate level.

This series of papers, taken from an international symposium on differential games theory, covers the theory of dynamic games. The main topics discussed are problems in management science and economics, resource management, hierarchical game models and computational aspects.