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Applications of Intelligent Control to Engineering Systems

In Honour of Dr. G. J. Vachtsevanos

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Kimon P. Valavanis

    1. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Denver, Denver, USA

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  • Includes results, in that it presents how theory is applied to solve real problems

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Diagnostics, Prognostics, Condition-Based Maintenance

    1. Selected Prognostic Methods with Application to an Integrated Health Management System

      • Carl S. Byington, Michael J. Roemer
      Pages 3-21

    2. Advances in Uncertainty Representation and Management for Particle Filtering Applied to Prognostics

      • Marcos Orchard, Gregory Kacprzynski, Kai Goebel, Bhaskar Saha, George Vachtsevanos
      Pages 23-35

    3. A Novel Blind Deconvolution De-Noising Scheme in Failure Prognosis

      • Bing Zhang, Taimoor Khawaja, Romano Patrick, George Vachtsevanos, Marcos Orchard, Abhinav Saxena
      Pages 37-63

    4. Particle Filter Based Anomaly Detection for Aircraft Actuator Systems

      • D. Brown, G. Georgoulas, H. Bae, G. Vachtsevanos, R. Chen, Y. H. Ho et al.
      Pages 65-88

  3. Unmanned Aerial Systems

    1. Design of a Hardware and Software Architecture for Unmanned Vehicles: A Modular Approach

      • Richard Garcia, Laura Barnes, Kimon P. Valavanis
      Pages 91-115

    2. Designing a Real-time Vision System for Small Unmanned Rotorcraft: A Minimal and Cost-Effective Approach

      • M. Kontitsis, K. P. Valavanis
      Pages 117-167

    3. Coordination of Helicopter UAVs for Aerial Forest-Fire Surveillance

      • K. Alexis, G. Nikolakopoulos, A. Tzes, L. Dritsas
      Pages 169-193

    4. Genetic Fuzzy Rule-Based Classifiers for Land Cover Classification from Multispectral Images

      • D. G. Stavrakoudis, J. B. Theocharis, G. C. Zalidis
      Pages 195-221

  4. Bioengineering/Neurotechnology

    1. Epileptic Seizures May Begin Hours in Advance of Clinical Onset: A Report of Five Patients*

      • Brian Litt, Rosana Esteller, Javier Echauz, Maryann D'Alessandro, Rachel Shor, Thomas Henry et al.
      Pages 225-245

    2. Intelligent Control Strategies for Neurostimulation

      • Javier Echauz, Hiram Firpi, George Georgoulas
      Pages 247-263

  5. Intelligent Control Systems

    1. Software Technology for Implementing Reusable, Distributed Control Systems

      • Bonnie S. Heck, Linda M. Wills, George J. Vachtsevanos
      Pages 267-293

    2. UGV Localization Based on Fuzzy Logic and Extended Kalman Filtering

      • Athanasios Tsalatsanis, Kimon P. Valavanis, Ali Yalcin
      Pages 295-328

    3. Adaptive Estimation of Fuzzy Cognitive Networks and Applications

      • T. L. Kottas, Y. S. Boutalis, M. A. Christodoulou
      Pages 329-363

    4. An Improved Method in Receding Horizon Control with Updating of Terminal Cost Function

      • Hongwei Zhang, Jie Huang, Frank L. Lewis
      Pages 365-393

    5. Identifier-Based Discovery in Large-Scale Networks An Economic Perspective

      • Joud Khoury, Chaouki T. Abdallah
      Pages 395-425
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About this book

This book represents the work of top scientists in the field of intelligent control and its applications, prognostics, diagnostics, condition based maintenance and unmanned systems. The work presents an approach to solving engineering problems related to manufacturing, automation, and especially unmanned systems and describes recent advances in the disciplines mentioned above.

The main goal of the book is to demonstrate how concepts and ideas from diverse disciplines are merged within a common framework applied to the solution of complex problems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Denver, Denver, USA

    Kimon P. Valavanis

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