Overview -- Elements of Probability Theory -- Uncertain Linear Systems and Robustness -- Linear Robust Control Design -- Some Limits of the Robustness Paradigm -- Probabilistic Methods for Robustness -- Monte Carlo Methods -- Randomized Algorithms in Systems and Control -- Probability Inequalities -- Statistical Learning Theory and Control Design -- Sequential Algorithms for Probabilistic Robus…
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 …
Resource Allocation Systems: Concepts and Problems -- Logical Control of Disjunctive / Conjunctive Resource Allocation Systems -- Sequential RAS Admitting Optimal Nonblocking Supervision of Polynomial Complexity -- Polynomial-Kernel Nonblocking Supervisory Control Policies for Single-Unit RAS -- Logical Control of RAS with Complex Process Flows -- Performance-Oriented Modelling and Control of L…
Simulation of Multi-agent Systems -- Smooth Scaling Ahead: Progressive MAS Simulation from Single PCs to Grids -- Agent Communication in Distributed Simulations -- Distributed Simulation of MAS -- Extending Time Management Support for Multi-agent Systems -- Designing and Implementing MABS in AKIRA -- Technique and Technology -- Work-Environment Analysis: Environment Centric Multi-agent Simulati…
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…
Construction and Analysis -- Transformation Analysis -- System Identification with Generalized Orthonormal Basis Functions -- Variance Error, Reproducing Kernels, and Orthonormal Bases -- Numerical Conditioning -- Model Uncertainty Bounding -- Frequency-domain Identification in ?2 -- Frequency-domain Identification in ?? -- Design Issues -- Pole Selection in GOBF Models -- Transformation Theory…
and Historical Background -- The PVTOL Aircraft -- The Quad-rotor Rotorcraft -- Robust Prediction-based Control for Unstable Delay Systems -- Modelling and Control of Mini-helicopters -- Helicopter in a Vertical Flying Stand -- Modelling and Control of a Tandem-Wing Tail-Sitter UAV -- Modelling and Control of Small Autonomous Airships -- Sensors, Modems and Microcontrollers for UAVs.Problems in…