Ebook: Current Trends in Nonlinear Systems and Control: In Honor of Petar Kokotović and Turi Nicosia

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, and although 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.

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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, and although 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.

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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, and although 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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Circle-Criterion Observers and Their Feedback Applications: An Overview....Pages 3-14
Unknown Input Observers and Residual Generators for Linear Time Delay Systems....Pages 15-33
Algebraic Methods for Nonlinear Systems: Parameter Identification and State Estimation....Pages 35-57
Recent Techniques for the Identification of Piecewise Affine and Hybrid Systems....Pages 59-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-99
Dual Matrix Inequalities in Stability and Performance Analysis of Linear Differential/Difference Inclusions....Pages 101-101
Oscillators as Systems and Synchrony as a Design Principle....Pages 103-122
Nonlinear Anti-windup for Exponentially Unstable Linear Plants....Pages 123-141
Constrained Pole Assignment Control....Pages 143-162
An Overview of Finite-Time Stability....Pages 163-183
Finite-Time Control of Linear Systems: A Survey....Pages 185-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-213
An Application of Iterative Identification and Control in the Robotics Field....Pages 215-215
Friction Identification and Model-Based Digital Control of a Direct-Drive Manipulator....Pages 217-229
A Singular Perturbation Approach to Control of Flexible Arms in Compliant Motion....Pages 231-251
Fault Tolerant Tracking of a Robot Manipulator: An Internal Model Based Approach....Pages 253-269
Set Membership Localization and Map Building for Mobile Robots....Pages 271-287
Visual Servoing with Central Catadioptric Camera....Pages 289-308
Motion Control and Coordination in Mechanical and Robotic Systems....Pages 309-325
Coordination of Robot Teams: A Decentralized Approach....Pages 327-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-363
Transient Stabilization of Multimachine Power Systems....Pages 365-365
Front Matter....Pages 367-386
Robust Controllers for Large-Scale Interconnected Systems: Applications to Web Processing Machines....Pages 365-365
Control Strategy Using Vision for the Stabilization of an Experimental PVTOL Aircraft Setup....Pages 387-406
Neural Network Model Reference Adaptive Control of Marine Vehicles....Pages 407-419
Front Matter....Pages 421-440
Projection and Aggregation in Maxplus Algebra....Pages 441-441
A Switched System Model for the Optimal Control of Two Symmetric Competing Queues with Finite Capacity....Pages 443-454
Cooperative Inventory Control....Pages 455-474
Front Matter....Pages 475-491
Communication Logic Design and Analysis for Networked Control Systems....Pages 493-493
Networked Decentralized Control of Multirate Sampled-Data Systems....Pages 495-514
Finite-Time Stability for Nonlinear Networked Control Systems....Pages 515-534
Back Matter....Pages 535-553
....Pages 555-560