Lie Groups -- Subgroups -- Lie Algebra -- A Little Kinematics -- Line Geometry -- Representation Theory -- Screw Systems -- Clifford Algebra -- A Little More Kinematics -- The Study Quadric -- Statics -- Dynamics -- Constrained Dynamics -- Differential Geometry.Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics provides an elegant introduction to the geometric concepts that are important to applications in rob…
Introduction -- Literature Survey: Autonomous Compliant Motion -- Literature Survey: Bayesian Probability Theory -- Kalman Filters for Nonlinear Systems -- The Non-Minimal State Kalman Filter -- Contact Modelling -- Geometrical Parameter Estimation and CF Recognition -- Experiment: A Cube-In-Corner Assembly -- Task Planning with Active Sensing -- General Conclusions.This monograph focuses on ho…
Integrated Mechanical Electronic Systems -- Fundamentals of Theoretical Modeling of Technical Processes -- Fundamental Equations of the Dynamics of Mechanical Systems with Mobile Masses -- Mechanical Elements -- Electrical Drives -- Machines and Drivetrains -- Identification of Dynamic Systems -- Models of Oscillations and their Identification -- Sensors -- Actuators -- Microcomputers -- Exampl…
Two-Class Support Vector Machines -- Multiclass Support Vector Machines -- Variants of Support Vector Machines -- Training Methods -- Feature Selection and Extraction -- Clustering -- Kernel-Based Methods -- Maximum-Margin Multilayer Neural Networks -- Maximum-Margin Fuzzy Classifiers -- Function Approximation.I was shocked to see a student’s report on performance comparisons between support …
From the contents: Part I Control Applications of Polynomial Positivity Control Applications of Sum of Squares Programming; Analysis of Non-polynomial Systems Using the Sum of Squares Decomposition; A Sum-of-Squares Approach to Fixed-Order H8-Synthesis; LMI Optimization for Fixed-Order H8 Controller Design; An LMI-based Technique for Robust Stability Analysis of Linear Systems with Polynomial P…
1. Humanization of soft computing agents -- 2. Software agents for ubiquitous computing -- 3. Agents-based knowledge logistics -- 4. Architectural styles and patterns for multi-agent systems -- 5. Design and behavior of a massive organization of agents -- 6. Developing agent-based applications with JADE -- 7. A collective can do better -- 8. Coordinating multi-agent assistants with an applicati…
Invited Talks -- Hierarchy in Fluid Construction Grammars -- Description Logics in Ontology Applications -- 175 Miles Through the Desert -- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning -- A New n-Ary Existential Quantifier in Description Logics -- Subsumption in w.r.t. Hybrid TBoxes -- Dependency Calculus: Reasoning in a General Point Relation Algebra -- Temporalizing Spatial Calculi: On Generalized …
From the contents: Part 1: Intelligent Systems and Data Mining; Some Considerations in Multi-Source Data Fusion; Granular Nested Causal Complexes; Gene Regulating Network Discovery; Semantic Relations and Information Discovery; Sequential Pattern Mining; Uncertain Knowledge Association through Information Gain; Data Mining for Maximal Frequency Patterns in Sequence Group; Mining Association Rul…
Trends in Manufacturing -- Machining Processes -- Machine Tools and Flexible Manufacturing Systems -- Non-Conventional Processes -- Forming -- Tool Condition Monitoring and New Materials -- Rapid Prototyping, Rapid Tooling and Rapid Manufacturing -- Ecodesign Assembly and Disassembly -- Quality Assurance.Manufacturing a product is not difficult, the difficulty consists in manufacturing a produc…
Part I: Modeling of mechanical systems; Introductory examples and problems; Linear and multilinear algebra; Differential geometry; Simple mechanical control systems; Lie groups, systems on groups, and symmetries -- Part II: Analysis of mechanical control systems; Stability; Controllability; Low-order controllability and kinematic reduction ; Perturbation analysis -- Part III: A sampling of desi…