System Theory category: 437 books
by Zhong-Ping Jiang, Yu Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
A comprehensive look at state-of-the-art ADP theory and real-world applications
This book fills a gap in the literature by providing a theoretical framework for integrating techniques from adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) and modern nonlinear control to address data-driven optimal control...
Econodynamics
The Theory of Social Production
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This book, now in its third edition, explores how human populations grow, based on their creative abilities. To reconsider the theory of economic growth from a physicist's perspective, the book analyses the concepts of value and utility and their relationship to thermodynamic concepts. This approach...
by Thor I. Fossen
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
The technology of hydrodynamic modeling and marine craft motion control systems has progressed greatly in recent years. This timely survey includes the latest tools for analysis and design of advanced guidance, navigation and control systems and presents new material on underwater vehicles and surface...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Since the 1950s control theory has established itself as a major mathematical discipline, particularly suitable for application in a number of research fields, including advanced engineering design, economics and the medical sciences. However, since its emergence, there has been a need to rethink...
Linear Systems
A Measurement Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This brief presents recent results obtained on the analysis, synthesis and design of systems described by linear equations. It is well known that linear equations arise in most branches of science and engineering as well as social, biological and economic systems. The novelty of this approach is that...
by Da-Wei Gu, Mihail M Konstantinov, Petko H. Petkov
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Robust Control Design with MATLAB® (second edition) helps the student to learn how to use well-developed advanced robust control design methods in practical cases. To this end, several realistic control design examples from teaching-laboratory experiments, such as a two-wheeled, self-balancing robot,...
Real Time Control Engineering
Systems And Automation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book covers the two broad areas of the electronics and electrical aspects of control applications, highlighting the many different types of control systems of relevance to real-life control system design. The control techniques presented are state-of-the-art. In the electronics section, readers...
by Martin Gugat
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This brief considers recent results on optimal control and stabilization of systems governed by hyperbolic partial differential equations, specifically those in which the control action takes place at the boundary. The wave equation is used as a typical example of a linear system, through which...
Model Predictive Control
Approaches Based on the Extended State Space Model and Extended Non-minimal State Space Model
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
This monograph introduces the authors’ work on model predictive control system design using extended state space and extended non-minimal state space approaches. It systematically describes model predictive control design for chemical processes, including the basic control algorithms, the extension...
A Crude Look at the Whole
The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
A top expert explains why a social and economic understanding of complex systems will help society to anticipate and confront our biggest challenges
Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one shard at a time. While you could probably...
Recent Results on Time-Delay Systems
Analysis and Control
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
This book mostly results from a selection of papers presented during the 11th IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, which took place in Grenoble, France, February 4 - 6, 2013. During this event, 37 papers were presented. Taking into account the reviewers'...
Science and the Economic Crisis
Impact on Science, Lessons from Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book not only explores the ways in which the economic crisis and associated austerity policies have adversely impacted the physical and human infrastructure and conduct of scientific research, but also considers how science can help us to understand the crisis and provide original solutions....
Economic Foundations for Social Complexity Science
Theory, Sentiments, and Empirical Laws
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book focuses on how important massive information is and how sensitive outcomes are to information. In this century humans now are coming up against the massive utilization of information in various contexts. The advent of super intelligence is drastically accelerating the evolution of the socio-economic...
by Michael Batty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand networks -- the relations between...