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…
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…
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…
Computerization of Clinical Guidelines: An Application of Medical Document Processing -- Case-based Medical Informatics -- Analysis and Architecture of Clinical Workflow Systems using Agent-Oriented Lifecycle Models -- Virtual Communities in Health Care -- Evidence Based Telemedicine -- Current Status of Computerized Decision Support Systems in Mammography -- Medical Diagnosis and Prognosis Bas…
Fuzzy Systems and Stability Analysis -- Bifurcations in Simple Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Systems:- Intelligent Control of Mobile Robots with Fuzzy Perception -- On the Stability of Mobile Robots with Fuzzy Reactive Navigation -- Intelligent System for Parallel Parking of Cars and Tractor-Trailers -- A. Adaptation of Conventional Electrical Vehicles.Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation builds upon the …