Space-Time Signals -- Optimum Linear Filtering -- Optimum Beamforming for Wideband Non-Stationary Signals -- A Practical Audio Acquisition System Using a Robust GSC (RGSC) -- Beamforming Combined with Multi-Channel Acoustic Echo Cancellation -- Efficient Real-time Realization of an Acoustic Human/Machine Front-End -- Summary and Conclusions -- A Estimation of Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise R…
Web Intelligence, World Knowledge and Fuzzy Logic -- Towards More Powerful Information Technology via Computing with Words and Perceptions: Precisiated Natural Language, Protoforms and Linguistic Data Summaries -- Enhancing the Power of Search Engines and Navigations Based on Conceptual Model: Web Intelligence -- Soft Computing for Perception-Based Decision Processing and Analysis: Web-Based BI…
Ship Modelling for Control -- Environmental Disturbances -- Kinematics of Ship Motion -- Ship Kinetics -- Control Surfaces (Actuators) -- to Ship Motion Control -- to Ship Roll Stabilisation -- Ship Roll Stabilisation -- Ship Motion Performance -- Performance Limitations in Feedback Control with Application to Ship Roll Stabilisers -- Linear Performance Limitations -- Constrained Performance Li…
Power System Oscillations -- Linear Control in Power Systems -- Test System Model -- Power System Stabilizers -- Multiple-Model Adaptive Control Approach -- Simultaneous Stabilization -- Mixed-Sensitivity Approach Using Linear Matrix Inequalities -- Normalized ?? Loop-Shaping Using Linear Matrix Inequalities -- ?? Control For Time-Delayed Systems.Robust Control in Power Systems deals with the a…
Basic Methods and Theory -- Modelling of Uncertain Systems -- Robust Design Specifications -- ??Design -- ??Loop-shaping Design Procedures -- ?-Analysis and Synthesis -- Lower-order Controllers -- Design Examples -- Robust Control of a Mass-Damper-Spring System -- A Triple Inverted Pendulum Control-system Design -- Robust Control of a Hard Disk Drive -- Robust Control of a Distillation Column -…
Motion Planning -- Path Planning -- Medical Robotics -- Human-Robot Interaction -- Multiple Robots -- Robot Navigation -- Vision -- Humanoids -- SLAM -- Robot Perception -- Design -- Bio-Robotics.ISRR, the "International Symposium on Robotics Research," is one of robotics pioneering Symposia, which has established over the past two decades some of the field's most fundamental and lasting contri…
to Network Communication -- Real-Time Systems -- Smart Peripheral Elements -- Reconfigurable Control -- Case Study.Distributed control systems offer the advantages of control local to the process being controlled while retaining the ease of control at a single centralised location. Typically such a system has involved a great deal of hard-wiring and has been of most use only in situations where…
Optimal Controls on Finite and Infinite Horizons: A Review -- State Feedback Receding Horizon Controls -- Receding Horizon Filters -- Output Feedback Receding Horizon Controls -- Constrained Receding Horizon Controls -- Nonlinear Receding Horizon Controls.Receding Horizon Control introduces the essentials of a successful feedback strategy that has emerged in many industrial fields: the process …
Ecology Based Decentralized Agent Management System -- Ecology Based Decentralized Agent Management System -- From Abstract to Concrete Norms in Agent Institutions -- Meeting the Deadline: Why, When and How -- Multi-agent Systems Reliability, Fuzziness, and Deterrence -- Formalism Challenges of the Cougaar Model Driven Architecture -- Facilitating the Specification Capture and Transformation Pr…
Task Allocation -- The Generation of Bidding Rules for Auction-Based Robot Coordination -- Issues in Multi-Robot Coalition Formation -- Sensor Network-Mediated Multi-Robot Task Allocation -- Coordination in Dynamic Environments -- Multi-Objective Cooperative Control of Dynamical Systems -- Levels of Multi-Robot Coordination for Dynamic Environments -- Parallel Stochastic Hill- Climbing with Sma…