Springer London: 1778 books
Structured Controllers for Uncertain Systems
A Stochastic Optimization Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Structured Controllers for Uncertain Systems focuses on the development of easy-to-use design strategies for robust low-order or fixed-structure controllers (particularly the industrially ubiquitous PID controller). These strategies are based on a recently-developed stochastic optimization method...
Manufacturing Outsourcing
A Knowledge Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
All companies which reach a critical size are faced with outsourcing decisions that can increase the value of their products and services primarily through lower costs, greater reliability and improved efficiency. Successful outsourcing decisions have an important knowledge dimension, where the outsourcing...
Proceedings of COOP 2010
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Designing Cooperative Systems, May, 18-21, 2010, Aix-en-Provence
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
COOP 2010 is the 9th edition of the International Conference on Designing Cooperative Systems, being the second European conference in the field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work after ECSCW. The conference brings together researchers who contribute to the analysis and design of cooperative systems...
The BOXES Methodology
Black Box Dynamic Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Robust control mechanisms customarily require knowledge of the system’s describing equations which may be of the high order differential type. In order to produce these equations, mathematical models can often be derived and correlated with measured dynamic behavior. There are two flaws in this...
Nonlinear Power Flow Control Design
Utilizing Exergy, Entropy, Static and Dynamic Stability, and Lyapunov Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
This book presents an innovative control system design process motivated by renewable energy electric grid integration problems. The concepts developed result from the convergence of research and development goals which have important concepts in common: exergy flow, limit cycles, and balance between...
Service Parts Management
Demand Forecasting and Inventory Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
With the pressure of time-based competition increasing, and customers demanding faster service, availability of service parts becomes a critical component of manufacturing and servicing operations. Service Parts Management first focuses on intermittent demand forecasting and then on the management...
Multispectral Satellite Image Understanding
From Land Classification to Building and Road Detection
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
This book presents a comprehensive review of image processing methods, for the analysis of land use in residential areas. Combining a theoretical framework with highly practical applications, the book describes a system for the effective detection of single houses and streets in very high resolution....
Control of Surge in Centrifugal Compressors by Active Magnetic Bearings
Theory and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Surge Control of Active-magnetic-bearing-suspended Centrifugal Compressors sets out the fundamentals of integrating active magnetic bearing (AMB) rotor suspension technology in compressor systems, and describes how this relatively new bearing technology can be employed in active control of compressor...
by Francesco Amato, Roberto Ambrosino, Marco Ariola
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Finite-time stability (FTS) is a more practical concept than classical Lyapunov stability, useful for checking whether the state trajectories of a system remain within pre-specified bounds over a finite time interval. In a linear systems framework, FTS problems can be cast as convex optimization problems...
Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks
A Semi-tensor Product Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Analysis and Control of Boolean Networks presents a systematic new approach to the investigation of Boolean control networks. The fundamental tool in this approach is a novel matrix product called the semi-tensor product (STP). Using the STP, a logical function can be expressed as a conventional discrete-time...
Networked and Distributed Predictive Control
Methods and Nonlinear Process Network Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Networked and Distributed Predictive Control presents rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of networked and distributed predictive control systems – the first book to do so. The design of model predictive control systems using Lyapunov-based techniques accounting for the influence of...
by Harold L. Hallock, Gary Welter, David G. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book de-emphasizes the formal mathematical description of spacecraft on-board attitude and orbit applications in favor of a more qualitative, concept-oriented presentation of these topics. The information presented in this book was originally given as a set of lectures in 1999 and 2000 instigated...
Discrete Calculus
Applied Analysis on Graphs for Computational Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
This unique text brings together into a single framework current research in the three areas of discrete calculus, complex networks, and algorithmic content extraction. Many example applications from several fields of computational science are provided.
by Christophe Tricaud, YangQuan Chen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
A successful cyber-physical system, a complex interweaving of hardware and software with some part of the physical environment, depends on proper identification of the, often pre-existing, physical element. A bespoke “cyber” part of the system may then be designed from scratch. Optimal Mobile...