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Optimal Iterative Learning Control - A Practitioner''S Guide

by Bing Chu e David H. Owens

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 This book introduces an optimal iterative learning control (ILC) design framework from the end user''s point of view. Its central theme is the understanding of model dynamics, the construction of a procedure for systematic input updating and their contribution to successful algorithm design. The authors discuss the many applications of ILC in industrial systems, applications such as robotics and mechanical testing.The text covers a number of optimal ILC design methods, including gradient-based and norm-optimal ILC. Their convergence properties are described and detailed design guidelines, including performance-improvement mechanisms, are presented. Readers are given a clear picture of the nature of ILC and the benefits of the optimization-based approach from the conceptual and mathematical foundations of the problem of algorithm construction to the impact of available parameters in making acceleration of algorithmic convergence possible. Three case studies on robotic platforms, an electro-mechanical machine, and robot-assisted stroke rehabilitation are included to demonstrate the application of these methods in the real-world. With its emphasis on basic concepts, detailed design guidelines and examples of benefits, Optimal Iterative Learning Control will be of value to practising engineers and academic researchers alike.
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Multicopter Flight Control - Fundamentals Of Flight Mechanics, Control Allocation, And Control Design

by Johannes Stephan

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 This book presents a comprehensive discussion of the mechanical modelling and control of multicopters, more commonly referred to as drones. By selecting concepts for presentation based on their ease of comprehension and suitability for practical application, the author employs a straightforward and concise approach. A main objective is to examine both the theoretical and practical aspects, as well as their interrelationship. The book presents the fundamental functional algorithms of a multicopter flight control system, specifically:<ul><li>control allocation, or the distribution of a control demand among redundant actuators;</li><li>low-level control loops to control rotational and vertical motion;</li><li>simple guidance loops controlling the translational motion of a multicopter; and</li><li>an introduction to Kalman filtering, which addresses the fusion of direct sensor measurement in order to estimate the state of the drone.</li></ul>These methods enable remotely piloted operation and preplanned path following.Multicopter Flight Control will be of particular interest to academic researchers and graduate students working in the field of aerospace engineering, as well as to practising engineers engaged in the development of drones and electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft. It provides a comprehensive and practical guide to the fundamentals of flight control and guidance techniques, offering valuable insights for those seeking to gain a deeper understanding of these topics. In order to derive the greatest benefit from reading this monograph, readers should possess a fundamental understanding of multiple-input, multiple-output system theory, particularly state-space representation, stability and feedback control. Additionally, a basic comprehension of rotor aerodynamics and rigid-body dynamics is essential.
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Control Systems Benchmarks

~~198,09€~~ 178,28€ 10% OFF

 Control Systems Benchmarks helps control engineers, researchers, and students to evaluate and compare control system performance across a range of critical applications by offering a collection of real-world benchmarks.
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Control Systems Benchmarks

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 Control Systems Benchmarks helps control engineers, researchers, and students to evaluate and compare control system performance across a range of critical applications by offering a collection of real-world benchmarks.
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Optimization Of Electric-Vehicle Charging - Scheduling And Planning Problems

by Giulio Ferro, Luca Parodi, Michela Robba e Riccardo Minciardi

~~198,09€~~ 178,28€ 10% OFF

 This book provides models and methods for the optimal management of electrical vehicles through an interdisciplinary approach that brings together knowledge from the sectors of transportation, manufacturing and smart grids.Optimization of Electric-Vehicle Charging explores several optimization models for the scheduling of electric vehicles in a smart grid. Both discrete-time and discrete-event approaches are considered to minimize tardiness, charging and production costs, on the basis of information like release time, due date, deadline, energy request, and availability of energy generated from renewable sources. Transportation demand is assessed, as well as user-equilibrium-based approaches, for the location of charging stations and for the assignment of users to multiple charging stations.Employing illustrations, tables and examples to elucidate the ideas presented, this book will be of value to researchers and practitioners in the fields of electrical engineering and transportation, as well as to graduate and PhD students.
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Tandem Hot Metal Rolling Mill Control - Using Practical Advanced Methods

by John Pittner e Marwan A. Simaan

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 Tandem Hot Metal Rolling Mill Control is a response to the significant control engineering challenges posed by the nature and circumstances of the hot metal strip rolling process. The process is large, complex, multivariable and nonlinear with significant disturbances and subject to multiple situationally dependent time delays all of which are exacerbated by the demands of an ever-more-competitive marketing environment for its product.The book provides innovative solutions not available with previously existing methods of control. It introduces new advanced control methods, including a nonlinear control method based on an advanced state-dependent Riccati equation technique coupled with virtual rolling to improve performance during various regimes of mill operation.The book begins with a brief history of metal rolling and an overview of the tandem hot metal rolling process. It then discusses process models, including physical-system and state-space equations, and control methods currently being used in tandem rolling. The exposition of the new advanced control method uses figures and simulations to facilitate thorough understanding of the methods and their applicability in the real world. The final chapter concludes with a brief discussion of variable-speed drives as typically used in modern installations.Although sufficient mathematical treatment is provided to support the development of novel concepts, the presentation is not highly mathematical, making the text readily understandable and useful to a variety of readers in both academic and practical engineering milieux.
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Process Control For Pumps And Compressors

by Steve S. Niu

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 This book provides a summary of the essential knowledge and working processes involved with control of rotating equipment including:machine characteristics;overall control strategies;detailed design;
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Control Of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles - Advances In Autopilot Design For Civilian Uavs

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 Control of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles is an edited book that provides a single-volume snapshot on the state of the art in the field of control theory applied to the design of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aka â€œdronesâ€, employed in a variety of applications.
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Control Of Variable-Geometry Vehicle Suspensions - Design And Analysis

by Balazs Nemeth e Peter Gaspar

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 This book provides a thorough and fresh treatment of the control of innovative variable-geometry vehicle suspension systems.
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Integral And Inverse Reinforcement Learning For Optimal Control Systems And Games

by Bahare Kiumarsi, Bosen Lian, Frank L. Lewis, Hamidreza Modares e Wenqian Xue

~~158,34€~~ 142,51€ 10% OFF

 Integral and Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Control Systems and Games develops its specific learning techniques, motivated by application to autonomous driving and microgrid systems, with breadth and depth: integral reinforcement learning (RL) achieves model-free control without system estimation compared with system identification methods and their inevitable estimation errors; novel inverse RL methods fill a gap that will help them to attract readers interested in finding data-driven model-free solutions for inverse optimization and optimal control, imitation learning and autonomous driving among other areas. Graduate students will find that this book offers a thorough introduction to integral and inverse RL for feedback control related to optimal regulation and tracking, disturbance rejection, and multiplayer and multiagent systems. For researchers, it provides a combination of theoretical analysis, rigorous algorithms, and a wide-ranging selection of examples. The book equips practitioners working in various domains - aircraft, robotics, power systems, and communication networks among them - with theoretical insights valuable in tackling the real-world challenges they face.
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Process Control For Pumps And Compressors

by Steve S. Niu

~~118,59€~~ 106,73€ 10% OFF

 This book provides a summary of the essential knowledge and working processes involved with control of rotating equipment including:machine characteristics;overall control strategies;detailed design;
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Control Of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles - Advances In Autopilot Design For Civilian Uavs

~~198,09€~~ 178,28€ 10% OFF

 Control of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles is an edited book that provides a single-volume snapshot on the state of the art in the field of control theory applied to the design of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aka â€œdronesâ€, employed in a variety of applications.
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Reinforcement Learning - Optimal Feedback Control With Industrial Applications

by Frank L. Lewis, Jialu Fan e Jinna Li

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 This book offers a thorough introduction to the basics and scientific and technological innovations involved in the modern study of reinforcement-learning-based feedback control. The authors address a wide variety of systems including work on nonlinear, networked, multi-agent and multi-player systems. A concise description of classical reinforcement learning (RL), the basics of optimal control with dynamic programming and network control architectures, and a brief introduction to typical algorithms build the foundation for the remainder of the book. Extensive research on data-driven robust control for nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics and multi-player systems follows. Data-driven optimal control of networked single- and multi-player systems leads readers into the development of novel RL algorithms with increased learning efficiency. The book concludes with a treatment of how these RL algorithms can achieve optimal synchronization policies for multi-agentsystems with unknown model parameters and how game RL can solve problems of optimal operation in various process industries. Illustrative numerical examples and complex process control applications emphasize the realistic usefulness of the algorithms discussed. The combination of practical algorithms, theoretical analysis and comprehensive examples presented in Reinforcement Learning will interest researchers and practitioners studying or using optimal and adaptive control, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and operations research, whether advancing the theory or applying it in mineral-process, chemical-process, power-supply or other industries.
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Control Of Variable-Geometry Vehicle Suspensions - Design And Analysis

by Balazs Nemeth e Peter Gaspar

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 This book provides a thorough and fresh treatment of the control of innovative variable-geometry vehicle suspension systems.
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Pneumatic Servo Systems Analysis - Control And Application In Robotic Systems

by Hongjiu Yang, Jinhui Zhang, Ling Zhao e Yuanqing Xia

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 This book focuses on pneumatic servo systems analysis, control and application in robotic systems. Nonlinear feedback control, back-stepping control, finite-time control, sliding mode control and several other control laws are proposed to make the pneumatic servo systems have better control performances.
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An Update On Anxiety Disorders - Etiological, Cognitive & Neuroscientific Aspects

by Marwa Azab

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 This book aims to synthesize recent theoretical and experimental findings from psychology, neuroscience, epigenetics and genetics to understand anxiety disorders and their etiology and treatments.
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Practice Of Sleep Medicine - Sleep Disorders In Children And Adults

by Angelika A. Schlarb, Boris A. Stuck, Hans-Gunter Weeãÿ, Joachim T. Maurer e Michael Schredl

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 The book provides an overview of the entire field of sleep medicine, from the basics of sleep physiology to the diagnosis and treatment of specific sleep disorders.
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Advanced Model Predictive Control For Autonomous Marine Vehicles

by Chao Shen, Henglai Wei, Kunwu Zhang e Yang Shi

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 This book provides a comprehensive overview of marine control system design related to underwater robotics applications. In particular, it presents novel optimization-based model predictive control strategies to solve control problems appearing in autonomous underwater vehicle applications. These novel approaches bring unique features, such as constraint handling, prioritization between multiple design objectives, optimal control performance, and robustness against disturbances and uncertainties, into the control system design. They therefore form a more general framework to design marine control systems and can be widely applied.Advanced Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Marine Vehicles balances theoretical rigor - providing thorough analysis and developing provably-correct design conditions - and application perspectives - addressing practical system constraints and implementation issues. Starting with a fixed-point positioning problem for a single vehicle andprogressing to the trajectory-tracking and path-following problem of the vehicle, and then to the coordination control of a large-scale multi-robot team, this book addresses the motion control problems, increasing their level of challenge step-by-step. At each step, related subproblems such as path planning, thrust allocation, collision avoidance, and time constraints for real-time implementation are also discussed with solutions.In each chapter of this book, compact and illustrative examples are provided to demonstrate the design and implementation procedures. As a result, this book is useful for both theoretical study and practical engineering design, and the tools provided in the book are readily applicable for real-world implementation.
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Process Control - Engineering Analyses And Best Practices

by Deyun Xiao e Steve S. Niu

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 Process Control details the core knowledge and practical skills that a successful process control practitioner needs. It explains the essential technologies that are in use in current industrial practice or which may be wanting for the future. The book focuses on practical considerations, not only on those that make a control solution work, but also on those that prevent it from failing, especially for complex control loops and plant-wide control solutions.After discussing the indispensable role of control in modern process industries, the authors concentrate on the skills required for process analysis, control design, and troubleshooting. One of the first books to provide a systematic approach and structured methodology for process analysis and control design, Process Control illustrates that methodology with many practical examples that cover process control, equipment control, and control calculations derived from real projects and applications. The book uses 229 drawings and 83 tables to make the concepts it presents more intuitive and its methodology easy to follow.Process Control will help the practising control engineer to benefit from a wealth of practical experience and good ideas on how to make control work in the real world and students training to take up roles in process control are shown the applied relevance of control theory in the efficient functioning of industrial plant and the considerations needed to make it work.Advances in Industrial Control reports and encourages the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.
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Interdisciplinary Foundations For The Science Of Emotion - Unification Without Consilience

by Cecilea Mun

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 In this book, Cecilea Mun introduces an innovative meta-framework for conducting interdisciplinary research in the science of emotion, broadly construed, as well as a framework for a particular kind of theory of emotion.
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Process Operational Safety And Cybersecurity - A Feedback Control Approach

by Panagiotis D. Christofides e Zhe Wu

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 This book is focused on the development of rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of advanced process control systems to improve process operational safety and cybersecurity for a wide range of nonlinear process systems.
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Theoretical Treatment Of Electron Emission And Related Phenomena

by Benjamin Seznec, Gilles Maynard, Philippe Dessante, Philippe Teste e Tiberiu Minea

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 This book introduces readers to the physics governing electron emission under high voltages and temperatures, and highlights recent modeling and numerical developments for describing these phenomena.
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Cooperative Control Of Multi-Agent Systems - Distributed-Observer And Distributed-Internal-Model Approaches

by He Cai, Jie Huang e Youfeng Su

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 The main focus of this book is a pair of cooperative control problems: consensus and cooperative output regulation.
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Cooperative Control Of Multi-Agent Systems - Distributed-Observer And Distributed-Internal-Model Approaches

by He Cai, Jie Huang e Youfeng Su

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 The main focus of this book is a pair of cooperative control problems: consensus and cooperative output regulation.
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