Automation category: 777 books
Satellite Formation Flying
Relative Dynamics, Formation Design, Fuel Optimal Maneuvers and Formation Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
This book systematically describes the concepts and principles for multi-satellite relative motion, passive and near passive formation designs, trajectory planning and control for fuel optimal formation maneuvers, and formation flying maintenance control design. As such, it provides a sound foundation...
by Zhijun Li, Chenguang Yang, Liping Fan
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Advanced Control o**f Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Systems is an orderly presentation of recent ideas for overcoming the complications inherent in the control of wheeled inverted pendulum (WIP) systems, in the presence of uncertain dynamics, nonholonomic kinematic constraints as well as underactuated...
System Identification and Adaptive Control
Theory and Applications of the Neurofuzzy and Fuzzy Cognitive Network Models
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Presenting current trends in the development and applications of intelligent systems in engineering, this monograph focuses on recent research results in system identification and control. The recurrent neurofuzzy and the fuzzy cognitive network (FCN) models are presented. Both models are suitable...
Plug In Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids
Integration Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
This book focuses on the state of the art in worldwide research on applying optimization approaches to intelligently control charging and discharging of batteries of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) in smart grids. Network constraints, cost considerations, the number and penetration level of PEVs,...
by Halim Alwi, Christopher Edwards, Chee Pin Tan
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Fault Detection and Fault-tolerant Control Using Sliding Modes is the first text dedicated to showing the latest developments in the use of sliding-mode concepts for fault detection and isolation (FDI) and fault-tolerant control in dynamical engineering systems. It begins with an introduction to the...
Model Predictive Vibration Control
Efficient Constrained MPC Vibration Control for Lightly Damped Mechanical Structures
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Real-time model predictive controller (MPC) implementation in active vibration control (AVC) is often rendered difficult by fast sampling speeds and extensive actuator-deformation asymmetry. If the control of lightly damped mechanical structures is assumed, the region of attraction containing the...
Linear Parameter-Varying and Time-Delay Systems
Analysis, Observation, Filtering & Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
This book provides an introduction to the analysis and control of Linear Parameter-Varying Systems and Time-Delay Systems and their interactions. The purpose is to give the readers some fundamental theoretical background on these topics and to give more insights on the possible applications of these...
Stardust Final Conference
Advances in Asteroids and Space Debris Engineering and Science
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2018
Space debris and asteroid impacts pose a very real, very near-term threat to Earth. In order to help study and mitigate these risks, the Stardust program was formed in 2013. This training and research network was devoted to developing and mastering techniques such as removal, deflection, exploitation,...
by Ligang Wu, Zidong Wang
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
This book focuses on filtering, control and model-reduction problems for two-dimensional (2-D) systems with imperfect information. The time-delayed 2-D systems covered have system parameters subject to uncertain, stochastic and parameter-varying changes.
After an initial introduction of 2-D...
Nonlinear Stochastic Systems with Incomplete Information
Filtering and Control
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Nonlinear Stochastic Processes addresses the frequently-encountered problem of incomplete information. The causes of this problem considered here include: missing measurements; sensor delays and saturation; quantization effects; and signal sampling.
Divided into three parts, the text begins with a...
Nonlinear Stochastic Systems with Network-Induced Phenomena
Recursive Filtering and Sliding-Mode Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
This monograph introduces methods for handling filtering and control problems in nonlinear stochastic systems arising from network-induced phenomena consequent on limited communication capacity. Such phenomena include communication delay, packet dropout, signal quantization or saturation, randomly...
by Chingiz Hajiyev, Halil Ersin Soken, Sıtkı Yenal Vural
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
This book discusses state estimation and control procedures for a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The authors consider the use of robust adaptive Kalman filter algorithms and demonstrate their advantages over the optimal Kalman filter in the context of the difficult and varied environments...
by Li Yu, Wen-An Zhang, Haiyu Song
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
This book systematically presents energy-efficient robust fusion estimation methods to achieve thorough and comprehensive results in the context of network-based fusion estimation. It summarizes recent findings on fusion estimation with communication constraints; several novel energy-efficient and...
by Yasmina Bestaoui Sebbane
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of planning and decision making for aerial robots. An aerial robot is the ultimate form of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, an aircraft endowed with built-in intelligence, requiring no direct human control and able to perform a specific task. It must...