Automatic control engineering Books

Modeling and problem statements.- Stochastic stability.- Stability.- Stabilization.- State Feedback Stabilization.- ?? Stabilization.- Output Feedback Stabilization.- Observer-Based Feedback Stabilization.- Filtering.- Filtering.- Singular Optimal...

Scientific State-of-the-Art.- Development of a Highly Miniaturized Inertial Measurement System.- Multi-Sensor Fusion Algorithms for Spatial Orientation Calculation.- Active Camera Stabilization.- Active Vision for Assistance Systems.- Summary and...

The DARPA Grand Challenge was a landmark in the field of robotics: a race by autonomous vehicles through 132 miles of rough Nevada terrain. It showcased exciting and unprecedented capabilities in robotic perception, navigation,...

Toward Hierarchical Multi-Robot Urban Search and Rescue: Development of a 'Mother' Agent.- Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: A Potential Field Based Approach.- Probabilistic Target Search Strategy.- Localisation and Mapping With a Mobile Robot Using Sparse...

In this book, Martijn Wisse and Richard Q. van der Linde provide a detailed description of their research on pneumatic biped robots at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. The book covers the basic theory of passive dynamic walking and...

A Robotic Future.- Multi-Hierarchical, Symbolic Representation of the Environment.- Application of Hierarchical Models to Mobile Robot Task Planning.- Mobile Robot Operation with Multi-Hierarchies.- Automatic Learning of Hierarchical Models.-...

to Five-Axis NC Machining.- Fundamental Issues in Tool Path Planning.- Space-Filling Curve Tool Paths.- Tool Paths in Adaptive Curvilinear Coordinates.- Optimization of Rotations.- Theory of Optimal Setup for Five-Axis NC Machining.

Properties of Compressed Air.- Thermodynamic Processes.- Some Results from Fluid Mechanics.- Engineering Flow Rate Calculations.- Modelling of Long Lines.- Electro-Mechanical Converters.- Cylinders.- Non-Standard Linear Actuators.- Semi-Rotary Actuators...

Modeling of Flexible Joint Robots.- Cartesian Impedance Control: The Rigid Body Case.- Nullspace Stiffness.- The Singular Perturbation Approach.- Controller Design Based on the Cascaded Structure.- A Passivity Based Approach.- Evaluation.- Applications.-...

Physically-Based Simulation of Soft Tissue Deformations.- Motion Planning in Deformable Soft Tissue with Applications to Needle Insertion.- Motion Planning in Deformable Soft Tissue with Obstacles with Applications to Needle Steering.- Motion Planning...

Concentration tendencies, globalization, increasing cost pressure and well-informed customers all make up the hard competition faced by today's businesses. The "right" products, a successful market image, a strong positioning...

Fuzzy controllers are a class of knowledge based controllers using artificial intelligence techniques with origins in fuzzy logic. They can be found either as stand-alone control elements or as integral parts of a wide range of...

For the first time, this book covers the entire field of piezoelectric sensors for mechanical measurands. It gives extensive practical advice along with an overview of the most important piezoelectric materials and their...

This is the first mechatronics book dealing with coupled mechanical and electrical actions, an emerging branch of modern technology. Authored by the leading scientist in this field, the book treats various subjects along the...

"Robotic Mapping and Exploration" is an important contribution in the area of simultaneous localization and mapping  (SLAM) for autonomous robots, which has been receiving a great deal of attention by the research community in the latest few...

The book largely represents the extended version of select papers from the Inter- tional Conference on Intelligent Unmanned System ICIUS 2007 which was jointly organized by the Center for Unmanned System Studies at Institut Teknologi Bandung, Artificial...

The present book is a translation and an expansion of lecture notes cor- sponding to a course of Mathematics of Control delivered during four years at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss ees (Marne-la-Vall ee, France) to...

This research monograph gives a complete discussion of the theory of the discrete-time hyperbolic map. Both scalar and matrix representations are considered. The dynamics of the map are analyzed and discussions of stability,...

This Festschrift, published on the occasion of the sixtieth birthday of Yutaka - mamoto ('YY' as he is occasionally casually referred to), contains a collection of articles by friends, colleagues, and former Ph.D. students of...

This monograph is based on the Ph.D. Thesis of the author [58]. Its goal is twofold: First, it presents most researchwork that has been done during his Ph.D., or at least the part of the work that is related with the joint spectral radius. This work was...

A principal objective of control engineering is to design control systems which are robust with respect to external disturbances and modelling uncertainty. This objective may be well achieved using the sliding mode technique - which is the main subject...

MISO Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy System with Linear Membership Functions.- Recursion in TS Systems with Two Fuzzy Sets for Every Input.- Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems with Polynomial Membership Functions.- Comprehensive Study and Applications of P1-TS Systems.-...

The ?eld of multi-sensor fusion and integration is growing into signi?cance as our societyisintransitionintoubiquitouscomputingenvironmentswithroboticservices everywhere under ambient intelligence. What surround us are to be...

By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major tra- formation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about bythematurityofthe?eldandtheadvancesinitsrelatedtechnologies.From a largely...

Creating some links between control feedback and biology modeling communities based on similarities in modeling, observing and perceiving alive structures, and analyzing interconnections between biological structures and...

Design of modern digital hardware systems and of complex software systems is almost always connected with parallelism. For example, execution of an object-oriented p- gram can be considered as parallel functioning of the...

This unique monograph focuses on the systematic type synthesis of parallel mechanisms (PMs), a key issue in the creative design of a wide variety of innovative devices such as parallel manipulators, motion simulators, and...

A fascinating book that covers in detail all of the most recent advances in Telerobotics. A must-read for scientists, researchers and students in teleoperation, it describes everything from methods and experimental results to...

0. 1 Introduction Although the general optimal solution of the ?ltering problem for nonlinear state and observation equations confused with white Gaussian noises is given by the Kushner equation for the conditional density of...

This book is devoted to new methods of control for complex dynamical systems and deals with nonlinear control systems having several degrees of freedom, subjected to unknown disturbances, and containing uncertain parameters...

This book focuses on the analysis and design of low-density parity-check (LDPC) coded modulations, which are becoming part of several current and future communication systems, such as high-throughput terrestrial and satellite wireless networks. In this...

This pages include the results derived during last ten years about both suppression and synchronization of chaotic -continuous time- systems. Along this time, our concept was to study how the intrinsic properties of dynamical...

This book demonstrates bene?ts of abstract and qualitative reasoning that have not received much attention in the context of autonomous robotics before. Bremen, Christian Freksa December 2007 Director of the SFB/TR 8 Spatial...

In this book, the author presents a new computational model of forestalling common flaws in autonomous robot behavior. To this end, robots are equipped with structured reactive plans (SRPs) which are concurrent control programs...

RoboCup is an international initiative devoted to advancing the state of the art in artificial intelligence and robotics. The aims of the project and potential research directions are numerous. The ultimate, long-range goal is...

Robot learning is a broad and interdisciplinary area. This holds with regard to the basic interests and the scienti c background of the researchers involved, as well as with regard to the techniques and approaches used. The...

Multidimensional or spatio-temporal signals are important in image processing and television. This book presents the mathematical methods for processing multidimensional signals. It describes applications in system analysis,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Collective Robotics, CRW'98, held as part of the Agents' World 1998 conference in Paris, France, in July 1998.The 13 revised full papers...

RoboCup is an international initiative devoted to advancing the state of the art in artificial intelligence and robotics. The ultimate, long range goal is to build a team of robot soccer players that can beat a human World Cup...

This application-oriented monograph focuses on a novel and complex type of control systems. Written on an engineering level, including fundamentals, advanced methods and applications, the book applies techniques originating...

The author presents a topological approach to the problem of robustness of dynamic feedback control. First the gap-topology is introduced as a distance measure between systems. In this topology, stability of the closed loop...

This book is concerned with problems and solutions associated with the exchange of data between different computer aided design, engineering and manufacturing (CAx) systems. After an analysis of the current problems a new...

Conceived by Count Jacopo Francesco Riccati more than a quarter of a millennium ago, the Riccati equation has been widely studied in the subsequent centuries. Since its introduction in control theory in the sixties, the matrix...

This monograph is concerned with the design of feedback controllers for linear multivariable systems, which are robust to system uncertainty. System uncertainty can be realistically represented by including perturbations with...