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Current Trends in Nonlinear Systems and Control

In Honor of Petar Kokotovic and Turi Nicosia

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  • © 2006

Overview

  • Includes contributions ranging from mathematics to laboratory experiments
  • New studies of robot manipulators, parameter identification, and different control problems for mobile robots
  • Applications of modern control techniques to port-controlled Hamiltonian systems, different classes of vehicles, large antennae, and web handling systems; applications of the maxplus algebra to system-order reduction
  • Self-contained chapters are accessible to both experts and graduate students
  • Great variety of topics covered

Part of the book series: Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications (SCFA)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. State Estimation and Identification

  2. Control and System Theory

  3. Robotics

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About this book

This volume is an outgrowth of the workshop "Applications of Advanced Control Theory to Robotics and Automation,” organized in honor of the 70th birthdays of Petar V. Kokotovic and Salvatore (Turi) Nicosia. Both Petar and Turi have carried out distinguished work in the control community and have long been recognized as mentors, experts, and pioneers in the field of automatic control, covering many topics in control theory and several different applications. The variety of their research is reflected in this book, which includes contributions from leading experts in the field ranging from mathematics to laboratory experiments.

Main topics covered include:

* State Estimation and Identification: observer designs for nonlinear systems and linear time-delay systems, as well as identification techniques for linear, nonlinear, piecewise linear, and hybrid systems.

* Control and System Theory: theoretical results related to the analysis and control of dynamical systems, including a presentation of Lyapunov tools for linear differential inclusions, a study of the control of constrained systems, and a treatment of finite-time stability concepts.

* Robotics: new studies of robot manipulators, parameter identification, and different control problems for mobile robots.

* Control of Electromechanical Systems: applications of modern control techniques to port-controlled Hamiltonian systems, different classes of vehicles, and web processing systems.

* Manufacturing Systems: applications of the max-plus algebra to system aggregation, optimal machine scheduling problems, and inventory control with cooperation between retailers.

* Networked Control Systems: analysis and design problems related to linear and nonlinear networked control systems.

The scope of the work is quite broad, andalthough each chapter is self-contained, the book has been organized into thematically related chapters, and in some cases, convenient reading sequences are suggested to the reader. The wide variety of topics covered and the tutorial writing style used by many of the contributors will make this book suitable for experts, as well as young researchers who seek a more intuitive understanding of these relevant topics in the field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Informatica Sistemi e Produzione, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Roma, Italia

    Laura Menini, Luca Zaccarian

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

    Chaouki T. Abdallah

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