Automatic control engineering Books

This book considers two popular topics: fault detection and isolation (FDI) and flight data estimation using flush air data sensing (FADS) systems. Literature surveys, comparison tests, simulations and wind tunnel tests are...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th RoboWorld Cup and Congress of the Federation of International Robosoccer Association, FIRA 2011, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan in August 2011.The 34 revised papers...

While sailing has a long tradition, both as a means of transportation and as a sport, robotic sailing is a fairly new area of research. One of its unique characteristics is the use of wind for propulsion. On the one hand, this...

Einleitung.- Kinematik.- Dynamik.- Projektionsgleichung.- Elastische Systeme.- Ritz Verfahren.- Bindungen.- Elastische Knickarmroboter.- Elastische Linearroboter.- Industrieroboter.- Redundante modulare Roboter.- Fahrende Roboter.- Bewegungsplattformen.-...

The practical task of building a talking robot requires a theory of how natural language communication works. Conversely, the best way to computationally verify a theory of natural language communication is to demonstrate its...

Der im Buch behandelte Teilbereich der Regelungstechnik ist Grundlage für die Automatisierung technischer Prozesse in der Industrie. Betrachtet werden verteilt-parametrische Systeme, bei denen die physikalischen Vorgänge sowohl zeit- als auch...

Although parallel robots are known to offer many advantages with respect to accuracy, dynamics, and stiffness, major breakthroughs in industrial applications have not yet taken place. This is due to a knowledge gap preventing...

Dieses Buch bietet eine praxisorientierte Einführung in die industrielle Bildverarbeitung. Das Buch liegt nun in einer überarbeiteten 3. Auflage vor, die die aktuellen technologischen Entwicklungen zum Beispiel im Bereich...

Petri Nets were introduced and still successfully used to analyze and model discrete event systems especially in engineering and computer sciences such as in automatic control. Recently this discrete Petri Nets formalism was successfully extended to...

Compiling the expertise of nine pioneers of the field, Magnetic Bearings - Theory, Design, and Application to Rotating Machinery offers an encyclopedic study of this rapidly emerging field with a balanced blend of commercial...

The basic principles guiding sensing, perception and action in bio systems seem to rely on highly organised spatial-temporal dynamics. In fact, all biological senses, (visual, hearing, tactile, etc.) process signals coming from...

Visual Sensing Systems for Arc Welding Process.- Information Acquirement of Arc Welding Process.- Modeling Methods of Weld Pool Dynamics During Pulsed GTAW.- Intelligent Control Strategies for Arc Welding Process.- Real-Time Control of Weld Pool Dynamics...

Higher-Order Statistics.- Higher-Order Statistics: Preliminaries.- Bispectrum and Bicoherence.- Data Quality - Compression and Quantization.- Impact of Data Compression and Quantization on Data-Driven Process Analyses.- Nonlinearity and Control...

Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems by Pierre Bessiere, Christian Laugier and Roland Siegwart provides a unique collection of a sizable segment of the cognitive systems research community in...

State Space Modelling of Physical Systems.- Analysis of State Space Models.- Linear Control System Design.- Optimal Control.- Noise in Dynamic Systems.- Optimal Observers: Kalman Filters.

At the dawn of the new millennium, robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments...

Education.- Emergent Behaviour Real-time Programming of a Six-Legged Omni-Directional Mobile Robot Planning of Viennese Waltz Behaviour.- The Hong Kong Underwater Robot Challenge.- Dynamics and Control of a VTOL Quad-Thrust Aerial Robot.-...

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of active control of various mechanical systems. With increasingly strict requirements for control speed and system performance, the unavoidable time delays in both controllers...

 "Kraftfahrzeugführung" umfasst alle Aspekte der Kraftfahrzeugtechnik , die die Eigenschaften und Grenzen des menschlichen Fahrers einbeziehen. Es sind Probleme der Ergonomie, aber auch Fragen nach einer nutzerorientierten...

An application-oriented approach to process control. The reference text systematically explains process identification, control and optimization, the three key steps needed to solve a multivariable control problem. Theory is...

Selected contributions to the Workshop WAFR 2002, held December 15-17, 2002, Nice, France. This fifth biannual Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics focuses on algorithmic issues related to robotics and automation...

Das 19. Fachgespräch Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS 2005) ist ein Forum, das Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern aus Forschung und Industrie, die auf dem Gebiet der autonomen mobilen Systeme arbeiten, eine Basis für den...

The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings which are organized in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania. The goal of ISER is to provide a forum for...

This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the 3rd Interna­ tional Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005) that is held at Awara-Spa, Fukui, Japan, September 20-22, 2005. This...

Das Buch ist ein zeitloses Handbuch für alle Entscheider und Manager, die für die Supply Chain ihres Unternehmens verantwortlich sind. Es eröffnet eine strategische Perspektive zum Aufbau von Kernkompetenzen und zur Schaffung...

In 1989 the time was hot to create a workshop series dedicated to the dicussion of the latest results in the automatic processing of fringe patterns. This idea was promoted by the insight that automatic and high precision phase...

Das Buch führt in die Modellbildung und Simulation von Fertigungssystemen (Werkzeugmaschinen, Produktionsautomaten, Roboter) ein und zeigt, wie diese Systeme mit dem stark verbreiteten Werkzeug Matlab/Simulink simuliert und...

The 9th Ibero-American conference on Arti?cial Intelligence IBERAMIA 2004 took place in Mexico for the third time in 16 years, since the ?rst conference organized in Barcelona in January 1988. It was also the second time that...

Verfahren der Leistungselektronik ermöglichen die Anpassung, Wandlung und Dosierung elektrischer Energie. Daher sind sie von großer Bedeutung für Industrie, Energieversorgung, Verkehr, Medizin und Kommunikationstechnik. Der Autor behandelt in dem...

Das Wörterbuch wurde gründlich bearbeitet und enthält jetzt rund 4000 Neueinträge. Die Sammlung von Logistikbegriffen in Deutsch-Englisch / Englisch-Deutsch mit über 16 000 Eintragungen umfasst alle Logistikbereiche; die...

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Preface.- 1.2 Changes in the Manufacturing Environment.- 1.2.1 Productivity.- 1.2.2 Flexibility.- 1.2.3 Attractiveness of the Workplace.- 1.3 Shifting Objectives of Manufacturing Control.- 1.4 Scheduling in Practice.- 1.5 The Weak...

A complete dynamic model of flight dynamics is presented. Based on this model, the inverse problem and that of the synthesis of programmed motion are solved. A new approach to decoupled control of large-scale nonlinear systems...

Supply Chain Management wird für die Automobilindustrie immer wichtiger. Ausgangspunkt für das Buch ist das LiNet Netzwerkmanagement für die Automobilindustrie, in dem Automobilhersteller (Audi, BMW,...

Atthedawnofthenewmillennium,roboticsisundergoingamajortransformation inscopeanddimension.Fromalargelydominantindustrialfocus,roboticsisrapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments. Interacting with, -...

This book presents theory and latest application work in Bond Graph methodology with a focus on:•      Hybrid dynamical system models,•      Model-based fault diagnosis, model-based fault...

This contributed volume is written by key specialists working in multidisciplinary fields in electrical engineering, linking control theory, power electronics, artificial neural networks, embedded controllers and signal processing. The authors of...

This book collects papers from the 8th Conference on Non-Integer Order Calculus and Its Applications that have been held on September 20-21, 2016 in Zakopane, Poland. The preceding two conferences were held in Szczecin, Poland in 2015, and in Opole,...

This monograph bridges the gap between the nonlinear predictor as a concept and as a practical tool, presenting a complete theory of the application of predictor feedback to time-invariant, uncertain systems with constant input delays and/or measurement...

This edited monograph collects research contributions and addresses the advancement of efficient numerical procedures in the area of model order reduction (MOR) for simulation, optimization and control. The topical scope includes, but is not limited to,...

The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a robotics competition that took place in Pomona, California USA in June 2015. The competition was the culmination of 33 months of demanding work by 23 teams and required humanoid robots to perform challenging locomotion...

1. Prologue2. Motor Fault Detection and Diagnosis Based on Meta-cognitive Random Vector Functional Link Network3. Optimal Adaptive Threshold and Mode Fault Detection for Model-based Fault Diagnosis of Hybrid Dynamical Systems4. Diagnosing Hybrid...

The first volume of the Adaptive Environments series focuses on Robotic Building, which refers to both physically built robotic environments and robotically supported building processes. Physically built robotic environments consist of reconfigurable,...

This book reports on findings at the intersection between two related fields, namely coastal hydrography and marine robotics. On one side, it shows how the exploration of the ocean can be performed by autonomous underwater vehicles; on the other side,...