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…
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…
From the contents: Part I: Contact Modelling for Grasp Planning and Haptic Rendering -- Rapid Collision Dynamics for Multiple Contacts with Friction -- Does Torque Minimization Yield a Stable Human Grasp?- Dynamic Proxies and Haptic Constraints -- Modelling and Controlling the Compliance of a Robotic Hand with Soft Finger-pads -- Part II: Grasping Control -- Grasp Synthesis from Example: Tuning…
General Characteristic of Control Systems -- Formal Models of Control Systems -- Control for the Given State (the Given Output) -- Optimal Control with Complete Information on the Plant -- Parametric Optimization -- Application of Relational Description of Uncertainty -- Application of Probabilistic Descriptions of Uncertainty -- Uncertain Variables and Their Applications -- Fuzzy Variables, An…
Microrheology -- Micron-Resolution Particle Image Velocimetry -- Electrokinetic Flow Diagnostics -- Micro- and Nano-Scale Diagnostic Techniques for Thermometry and Thermal Imaging of Microelectronic and Data Storage Devices -- Nanoscale Mechanical Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes -- Applications of the Piezoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalance for Microdevice Development.Microscale Diagnost…
Learning Visual Landmarks for Mobile Robot Topological Navigation -- Foveated Vision Sensor and Image Processing – A Review -- On-line Model Learning for Mobile Manipulations -- Continuous Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Skills Learning in an Autonomous Mobile Robot -- Efficient Incorporation of Optical Flow into Visual Motion Estimation in Tracking -- 3-D Modeling of Real-World Objects …
Facility-Location Models -- Measuring Spatial Separation: Distance, Time, Routing, and Accessibility -- Simultaneous Location-and-Routing Models -- Including Generation, Competition and Distribution in Location Allocation -- Activity Allocation and Derivation: Evolution of the Lowry-Based Land-Use Models -- Chaos, Catastrophe, Bifurcation and Disaggregation in Locational Models -- Spatial Equil…
Differential equations -- Time invariant systems -- Time varying systems -- Differential inclusions -- Additional properties of strict Liapunov functions -- Monotonicity and generalized derivatives.This book presents a modern and self-contained treatment of the Liapunov method for stability analysis, in the framework of mathematical nonlinear control theory. A Particular focus is on the problem…