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…
Evolvable Robots -- Learning for Cooperative Transportation by Autonomous Humanoid Robots -- Evolution, Robustness and Adaptation of Sidewinding Locomotion of Simulated Snake-like Robot -- Evolution of Khepera Robotic Controllers with Hierarchical Genetic Programming Techniques -- Evolving Controllers for Miniature Robots -- Evolvable Hardware Synthesis -- Evolutionary Synthesis of Synchronous …
Origin of entropy in the work of Clausius -- Entropy in the work of Carathéodory. Absolute temperature -- Entropy in the work of Boltzmann -- Enthalpy and equations of state -- Gases and Rubber -- Statistical thermodynamics -- Entropy and energy in competition -- Planetary atmospheres -- Entropy of mixing. Osmosis -- Phase transition -- Phase diagrams -- Chemical reactions -- Shape memory allo…
Basic topics -- Jeffcott rotor -- Model with four degrees of freedom: Gyroscopic effect -- Discrete multi-degrees-of-freedom rotors -- Continuous systems: Transmission shafts -- Anisotropy of rotors or supports -- Torsional and axial dynamics -- Rotor-bearings interaction -- Advanced topics -- Anisotropy of rotors and supports -- Nonlinear rotordynamics -- Nonstationary rotordynamics -- Dynamic…
Intelligent Systems: Architectures and Perspectives -- Do Smart Adaptive Systems Exist? — Introduction -- Problem Definition — From Applications to Methods -- Problem Definition — From Applications to Methods -- Data Preparation and Preprocessing -- Data Preparation and Preprocessing -- From Methods To Applications -- Artificial Neural Networks -- Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learni…
Definition of thermodynamic terms -- Volume as a state function -- The first law of thermodynamics -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Gibbs free energy and Helmholtz free energy -- Thermal equilibrium -- Chemical reactions -- Geothermometry and geobarometry.Thermodynamics is an important tool to interpreting the conditions at which natural geomaterial equilibrate. It allows one to determine, fo…
Neural Networks: An Overview -- Modeling with Neural Networks: Principles and Model Design Methodology -- Modeling Metholodgy: Dimension Reduction and Resampling Methods -- Neural Identification of Controlled Dynamical Systems and Recurrent Networks -- Closed-Loop Control Learning -- Discrimination -- Self-Organizing Maps and Unsupervised Classification -- Neural Networks without Training for O…
The Geometry of Sensor Information Utilization in Nonlinear Feedback Control of Vehicle Formations -- Determining Environmental Boundaries: Asynchronous Communication and Physical Scales -- Adaptive and Distributed Coordination Algorithms for Mobile Sensing Networks -- Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems -- Modeling and Analysis of Cooperative Control Systems for Uninhabited Aut…
Introduction -- Background on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Systems -- Control of Nonlinear Systems with Uncertainty -- Control of Nonlinear Systems with Uncertainty and Constraints -- Hybrid Predictive Control of Constrained Linear Systems -- Hybrid Predictive Control of Nonlinear and Uncertain Systems -- Control of Hybrid Nonlinear Systems -- Fault-Tolerant Control of Process Systems -- C…
From the contents Observers as Internal Models for Remote Tracking via Encoded Information -- Extended Luenberger Observer for Nonuniformly Observable Nonlinear Systems -- Approximate Observer Error Linearization by Dissipativity Methods -- On Invariant Observers -- Remarks on Moving Horizon State Estimation with Guaranteed Convergence -- Least Squares Smoothing of Nonlinear Systems -- State Es…