Multi-Robot Systems -- Vision-Based Autonomous Robot Navigation -- Multi View and Multi Scale Image Based Visual Servo For Micromanipulation -- Path Planning in Dynamic Environments -- Intelligent Neurofuzzy Control of a Robotic Gripper -- Voronoi-Based Outdoor Traversable Region Modelling -- Using Visual Features for Building and Localizing within Topological Maps of Indoor Environments -- Int…
Introduction -- Neural network Wiener models -- Neural network Hammerstein models -- Polynomial Wiener models -- Polynomial Hammerstein models -- Applications.This monograph systematically presents the existing identification methods of nonlinear systems using the block-oriented approach It surveys various known approaches to the identification of Wiener and Hammerstein systems which are applic…
Introduction to Pattern Recognition with Intelligent Systems -- Type-1 Fuzzy Logic -- Type-2 Fuzzy Logic and Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logic -- Supervised Neural Networks -- Unsupervised Neural Networks -- Modular Neural Networks -- Evolutionary Computing for Architecture Optimization -- Clustering with Intelligent Techniques -- Face Recognition with Modular Neural Networks and Fuzzy Measures -- Fin…
Hybrid Estimation at a Glance -- Probabilistic Hybrid Automata -- Hybrid Estimation -- Case Studies -- Conclusion.This monograph provides a tool-set for hybrid estimation that can successfully monitor the behavior of complex artifacts with a large number of possible operational and failure modes such as production plants, automotive or aeronautic systems, and autonomous robots. For this purpose…
Part I: Introduction and Literature Survey: Introduction -- Part II: Continuous-time Systems: Control and Luenberger-type Filtering; General Filtering; Tracking Control; Static Output-feedback; Stochastic Passivity -- Part III: Discrete-time Systems: Control and Luenberger-type Filtering; General Filtering; Tracking Control; Static Output-feedback -- Part IV: Applications: Systems with State-mu…
Fundamentals -- Fundamentals of Dynamical Systems -- Control of Single-Input Single-Output Systems -- Basics of Sampling and Quantization -- Discrete-Event Systems -- to Hybrid Systems -- Finite Automata -- Basics of Computer Architecture -- Real-Time Scheduling for Embedded Systems -- Network Fundamentals -- Hardware -- Basics of Data Acquisition and Control -- Programmable Logic Controllers -…
Handling: The Underrated Process -- Evolution or Revolution? -- Getting To Grips With Handling Tasks -- Movement Adds Value -- Practical Applications.Automated gripping and handling tasks offer a great rationalization potential but they are still difficult to realize. This book shows you how to ensure process reliability on the basis of combining the right components with advanced application k…
This book is devoted to reporting innovative and significant progress in fuzzy system engineering. Given the maturation of fuzzy logic, this book is dedicated to exploring the recent breakthroughs in fuzziness and soft computing in favour of intelligent system engineering. This monograph presents novel developments of the fuzzy theory as well as interesting applications of the fuzzy logic explo…
Fuzzy Logic -- Knowledge and Fuzzy Control -- Control of the Service Activities -- Control of the Queue Discipline -- Control of the Admission of Customers -- Coordinating Multiple Control Policies -- Applications of Fuzzy Queuing Control to the Internet -- Closure.Every day we experience the annoyance of having to queue. The phenomenon is becoming more prevalent in our increasingly congested a…
Preliminaries -- Perturbations of Linear Systems -- Linear Systems with Slowly Varying Coefficients -- Linear Dissipative and Piecewise Constant Systems -- Nonlinear Systems with Autonomous Linear Parts -- The Aizerman Problem -- Nonlinear Systems with Time-Variant Linear Parts -- Essentially Nonlinear Systems -- The Lur'e Type Systems -- The Aizerman Type Problem for Nonautonomous Systems -- I…