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A typical design procedure for model predictive control or control performance monitoring consists of: 1. design of the control law or calculation of performance indices according to the predictor. Both design problems need an explicit model form and both require this three-step design procedure.

This collected volume demonstrates the importance of these emerging areas in the current research agenda in science and technology and shows that a unique opportunity exists to drastically extend the scope and impact of dynamics and control methods far beyond their traditional areas of application in engineering.

Contains papers presented at the First Ruperto-Carola-Symposium Fast Motions in Biomechanics and Robotics - Optimization & Feedback Control, held in 2005. The aim of this symposium was to provide a forum for an interdisciplinary community of researchers to enhance the understanding of the control of fast motions in nature and engineering.

One of the major application targets of service robots is to use them as assistive devices for rehabilitation. Significant parts of the book are devoted to the assessment of new rehabilitation technologies, the evaluation of prototype devices with end-users, the safety of rehabilitation robots, and robot-assisted neurorehabilitation.

A selection of papers exploring a wide spectrum of new trends in nonlinear dynamics and control, such as bifurcation control, state estimation and reconstruction, analysis of behavior and stabilities, dynamics of nonlinear neural network models, and numerical algorithms.

Robotics applications, initially developed for industrial and manufacturing contexts, are now strongly present in several elds. The task of designing robots for these applications is a hard challenge: a speci c competence in each area is demanded, in the e ort of a truly integrated multidisciplinary design.

This monograph presents the fundamentals as well as the application techniques of servo control systems, which are a key element of Mechatronics. The industrial applications and problems of Mechatronic Servo System Control are demonstrated as well as its theoretical and applicable solutions.

This book develops for the first time a complete and connected nonlinear theory for the analog Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) which clarifies the obscure points of its complex non-linear behaviour. The book suggests new non-linear models for the PLL components and applies the averaging method to analyse PLL.

The book presents an introductory and comprehensive treatment of resilient controller design methods placing great emphasis on the derivation of necessary and sufficient design conditions and on the use of linear matrix inequalities as a convenient computational tool.

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 applicable to both neural network and polynomial models.

Presents the main results appeared in the literature on the topic of robust control of dynamical systems, with particular reference to the robust stability problem for linear systems subject to time-varying uncertainties. This book mainly focuses on those problems for which a definitive solution has been found.

This volume originates from the Third Nonlinear Control Workshop "- namics, Bifurcations and Control", held in Kloster Irsee, April 1-3 2001. As the preceding workshops held in Paris (2000) and in Ghent (1999), it was organized within the framework of Nonlinear Control Network funded by the European Union (http://www.supelec.fr/lss/NCN).

In this book recent results of the GARTEUR (Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology in Europe) Action Group FM (AG11) are presented.

The e?ort to invent a very general framework of hybrid control system for stu- ing impulsive control and other hybrid control problems will contribute no essential knowledge to impulsive control.

This research report brings together present trends in advanced welding robots, robotic welding, artificial intelligent and automatic welding. Modeling, identification and control of the welding process are presented, as well as knowledge-based systems for welding and tele-robotic welding.

The second chapter, "An Integrated Learning Variable Structure Control Method" written by Jian-Xin Xu, addresses an important issue regarding control integration between variable structure control and learning control.

This book reports on the new results in Abstract Systems Theory (AST). It shows the progress made so far in the effort launched in 1960 to develop a mathematical theory of systems based on the "top-down"-formalization-approach. The volume can be used as a supplementary reading in courses in systems theory and engineering.

"Robust Control for Uncertain Networked Control Systems with Random Delays" addresses the problem of analysis and design of networked control systems when the communication delays are varying in a random fashion.

This monograph grew out of a combined effort to prove a conjecture concerning the characterization of Hamiltonian control systems in terms of their variational input-output behaviour. Indeed, the study of Hamiltonian control systems is one of the places where (theoretical) physics and systems and control theory meet.

Reconfiguration, an approach for fault-tolerant control, involves changing the control structure in response to the fault. "Control Reconfiguration of Dynamical Systems" also introduces structural analysis as a tool for reconfiguration.

Sliding mode control is a simple and yet robust control technique, where the system states are made to confine to a selected subset. With the increasing use of computers and discrete-time samplers in controller implementation in the recent past, discrete-time systems and computer based control have become important topics.

This book presents a number of techniques for robustness analysis of uncertain systems. In it, convex relaxations for several robustness problems are derived by exploiting and providing new results on the theory of homogenous polynomial forms.

Robots able to imitate human beings have been at the core of stories of science?ctionaswellasdreamsofinventorsforalongtime.Amongthe various skills that Mother Nature has provided us with and that often go forgotten, the ability of sight is certainly one of the most important.

Time-delay occurs in many dynamical systems such as biological systems, chemical systems, metallurgical processing systems, nuclear reactor, long transmission lines in pneumatic, hydraulic systems and electrical networks.

Control of multivariable industrial plants and processes has been a challenging and fascinating task for researchers in this field. The important concept of control structure selection which is a key prerequisite for a successful industrial control strategy is almost unnoticed.

The authors cover many aspects of nonlinear systems including stability theory, control design and extensions to distributed parameter systems.Many of the classical and modern control design methods which can be applied to linear, time-varying systems can be extended to nonlinear systems by this technique.

The purpose of this fantastically useful book is to lay out an overview on possible tools for state reconstruction in nonlinear systems. The problem of state reconstruction in dynamical systems, known as observer problem, is crucial for controlling or even merely monitoring processes.

This book deals with the problem of detecting and localizing multiple simultaneously active wideband acoustic sources by applying the notion of wavefield decomposition using circular and spherical microphone arrays.

This volume contains the proceedings of the "Third Multidisciplinary Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA09)" held in Valencia, Spain, September 2-4, 2009. This is the only world congress whose main topic is focused on this field.