Bifurcation, Chaos and Control -- Chaotic Clocks: A Paradigm for the Evolution of Noise in Machines -- Explorations into the Nonlinear Dynamics of a Single DOF System Coupled to a Wideband Auto-Parametric Vibration Absorber -- Adaptive Partial Observers with Application to Time-Varying Chaotic Systems -- Nonlinear Dynamics of a Heavy Material Particle along a Circle Which Rotates and Optimal Co…
Matrix Analysis -- Vibrations of Discrete Systems -- Jacobi Matrices -- Inverse Problems for Jacobi Systems -- Inverse Problems for Some More General Systems -- Positivity -- Isospectral Systems -- The Discrete Vibrating Beam -- Discrete Modes and Nodes -- Green’s Functions and Integral Equations -- Inversion of Continuous Second-Order Systems -- A Miscellany of Inverse Problems -- The Euler-…
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 …
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…
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…
Percolation Theory -- Porous Media Primer for Physicists -- Specific Examples of Critical Path Analysis -- Basic Constitutive Relations for Unsaturated Media -- Pressure Saturation Curves and the Critical Volume Fraction of Percolation -- Applications of the Correlation Length -- Applications of the Cluster Statistics -- Effects of Multi-Scale Heterogeneity.The present monograph presents, for t…
Fundamentals -- Strongly Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equations -- Free Energy Fokker-Planck Equations -- Free Energy Fokker-Planck Equations with Boltzmann Statistics -- Entropy Fokker-Planck Equations -- General Nonlinear Fokker-Planck Equations -- Epilogue.Providing an introduction to the theory of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations, this book discusses fundamental properties of transient and stat…
Entropy Production by Earth System Processes -- Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics in an Energy-Rich Universe -- Stumbling Into the MEP Racket: An Historical Perspective -- Maximum Entropy Production and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics -- Using Ecology to Quantify Organization in Fluid Flows -- Cosmological and Biological Reproducibility: Limits on the Maximum Entropy Production Principle -- …
Fuzzy Sets -- The Operation of Fuzzy Set -- Fuzzy Relation and Composition -- Fuzzy Graph and Relation -- Fuzzy Number -- Fuzzy Function -- Probabilisy and Uncertainty -- Fuzzy Logic -- Fuzzy Inference -- Fuzzy Control and Fuzzy Expert Systems -- Fusion of Fuzzy System and Neural Networks -- Fusion of Fuzzy Systems and Genetic Algorithms.This basic textbook gives an easily accessible introducti…
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…