Automation category: 777 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The book presents recent advances in nature-inspired computing, giving a special emphasis to control systems applications. It reviews different techniques used for simulating physical, chemical, biological or social phenomena at the purpose of designing robust, predictive and adaptive control strategies....
Advances on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators
Proceedings of Romansy 2014 XX CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This proceedings volume contains papers that have been selected after review for oral presentation at ROMANSY 2014, the 20th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators. These papers cover advances on several aspects of the wide field of Robotics as concerning Theory and...
ROMANSY 21 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control
Proceedings of the 21st CISM-IFToMM Symposium, June 20-23, Udine, Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
This proceedings volume contains papers that have been selected after review for oral presentation at ROMANSY 2016, the 21th CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators. These papers cover advances on several aspects of the wide field of Robotics as concerning Theory and...
ROMANSY 22 – Robot Design, Dynamics and Control
Proceedings of the 22nd CISM IFToMM Symposium, June 25-28, 2018, Rennes, France
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
This proceedings volume contains papers that have been selected after review for oral presentation at ROMANSY 2018, the 22nd CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators. These papers cover advances on several aspects of the wide field of Robotics as concerning Theory and...
by Viacheslav Pshikhopov
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
Path Planning for Vehicles Operating in Uncertain 2D-environments presents a survey that includes several path planning methods developed using fuzzy logic, grapho-analytical search, neural networks, and neural-like structures, procedures of genetic search, and unstable motion modes.
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by Zhiyong Sun
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
The thesis presents new results on multi-agent formation control, focusing on the distributed stabilization control of rigid formation shapes. It analyzes a range of current research problems such as problems concerning the equilibrium and stability of formation control systems, or the problem of...
by Magdi S. Mahmoud
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Decentralized Control and Filtering provides a rigorous framework for examining the analysis, stability and control of large-scale systems, addressing the difficulties that arise because dimensionality, information structure constraints, parametric uncertainty and time-delays. This monograph serves...
by Fabio Fagnani, Paolo Frasca
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book deals with averaging dynamics, a paradigmatic example of network based dynamics in multi-agent systems. The book presents all the fundamental results on linear averaging dynamics, proposing a unified and updated viewpoint of many models and convergence results scattered in the literature.
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by Vladimir Hahanov
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book presents the cyber culture of micro, macro, cosmological, and virtual computing. The book shows how these work to formulate, explain, and predict the current processes and phenomena monitoring and controlling technology in the physical and virtual space.The authors posit a basic proposal...
Networks of Dissipative Systems
Compositional Certification of Stability, Performance, and Safety
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This book addresses a major problem for today’s large-scale networked systems: certification of the required stability and performance properties using analytical and computational models. On the basis of illustrative case studies, it demonstrates the applicability of theoretical methods to biological...
by María Guinaldo Losada
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
This book reports on a set of new techniques for resolving current issues in networked control systems. The main focus is on strategies for event-based control, for both centralized and decentralized architectures. The first part of the book addresses the problem of single-loop networked control systems...
Dynamics of Underactuated Multibody Systems
Modeling, Control and Optimal Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Underactuated multibody systems are intriguing mechatronic systems, as they posses fewer control inputs than degrees of freedom. Some examples are modern light-weight flexible robots and articulated manipulators with passive joints. This book investigates such underactuated multibody systems from...
by Keyou You, Nan Xiao, Lihua Xie
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
This monograph focuses on characterizing the stability and performance consequences of inserting limited-capacity communication networks within a control loop. The text shows how integration of the ideas of control and estimation with those of communication and information theory can be used to provide...
by Shuli Guo, Lina Han
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
This book presents special systems derived from industrial models, including the complex saturation nonlinear functions and the delay nonlinear functions. It also presents typical methods, such as the classical Liapunov and Integral Inequalities methods. Providing constructive qualitative and stability...