Cybernetics and systems theory

Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest in knowledge.

Discrete-event dynamic systems (DEDs) permeate our world, being of great importance in modern manufacturing processes, transportation and various forms of computer and communications networking.

Passivity and associated stability conditions form one of the cornerstones in control theory and have begun to be applied in process control.

Recent worldwide advances in manufacturing technologies led to a metamorphism in the industry.

In today's competitive world, industries are focusing on shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit, improved productivity and better customer service.

Self-organization is a multi-faceted phenomenon, present in many fields, operating at multiple scales, and performs diverse roles.

Although the transfer function approach is widely used in classical control theory, computer-controlled continuous-time processes are a very important subset of periodic sampled-data systems which are not treatable using ordinary transfer functions.

Conventional model-based data processing methods are computationally expensive and require experts' knowledge for the modelling of a system.

Computer software reliability has never been so important.

Recently, there have been significant developments in robust control of time-delay systems.

Mobile robotics has until now focused on issues like design of controllers and robot hardware.

Purchasers of manufactured goods need assurance that they will perform well over their expected life.

Many real systems are composed of multi-state components with different performance levels and several failure modes.

Switched linear systems have enjoyed a particular growth in interest since the 1990s.

Robust Control Design with MATLAB(R) helps you learn how to use well-developed robust control design methods in practical cases.

Safety critical and high-integrity systems, such as industrial plants and economic systems can be subject to abrupt changes - for instance due to component or interconnection failure, and sudden environment changes etc.

Recent developments in constrained control and estimation have created a need for this comprehensive introduction to the underlying fundamental principles.

The extraordinary development of digital computers (microprocessors, microcontrollers) and their extensive use in control systems in all fields of applications has brought about important changes in the design of control systems.

Moving on from earlier stochastic and robust control paradigms, this book introduces the  fundamentals of probabilistic methods in the analysis and design of uncertain systems.

Parametric cost estimating, when properly used, is a powerful and cost effective technique.

Receding Horizon Control (RHC) introduces the essentials of a successful feedback strategy that has emerged in many industrial fields.

A complete course in self-tuning control, beginning with a survey of adaptive control and the formulation of adaptive control problems.

This book aims to present a state-of-the-art survey of theories and methods of reliability, maintenance, and warranty with emphasis on multi-unit systems, and to reflect current hot topics: imperfect maintenance, economic dependence, opportunistic maintenance, quasi-renewal processes, warranty with maintenance and economic dependency, and software testing and maintenance.

Demand for this book will be generated by the widespread use of PID in industry and because of the modern need for simple control systems to control a wider range of complex industrial processes and systems.

An in-depth introduction to subspace methods for system identification in discrete-time linear systems thoroughly augmented with advanced and novel results, this text is structured into three parts.

Models of dynamical systems are of great importance in almost all fields of science and engineering and specifically in control, signal processing and information science.

Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines is an exposition of models developed to assist in the motion control of various types of mini-aircraft: Planar Vertical Take-off and Landing aircraft; helicopters; quadrotor mini-rotorcraft; other fixed-wing aircraft; blimps.

Stochastic differential equations play an increasingly important role in modeling the dynamics of a large variety of systems in the natural sciences, and in technological applications.

Distributed control systems offer the advantages of local control, while retaining the ease of control at a single centralized location.

In recent decades, a comprehensive new framework for the theory and design of control systems has emerged.

In a world driven by data and decentralization, blockchain and machine learning are transforming industries at an unprecedented pace.

Multibody Mechanics and Visualization is designed to appeal to computer-savvy students who will acquire significant skills in mathematical and physical modelling of mechanical systems in the process of producing attractive computer simulations and animations.

This book introduces a novel approach to designing and analyzing beneficial nonlinearity, which plays a crucial role in engineering systems and cannot be overlooked in structural design, dynamic response analysis, and parameter selection.

The book provides a self-contained and complete description of the long time evolution of the solutions to a class of one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations, in which the diffusion is given by an integral operator.

In a world driven by data and decentralization, blockchain and machine learning are transforming industries at an unprecedented pace.

Recently, novel metaheuristic techniques have emerged in response to the limitations of conventional approaches, leading to enhanced outcomes.

This book is the tenth of 15 related monographs, discusses product-cubic nonlinear systems with two crossing-linear and self-quadratic products vector fields and the dynamic behaviors and singularity are presented through the first integral manifolds.

This book is devoted to offering a comprehensive and detailed discussion of the design of high-reliability, high-efficiency spectrum utilization, cross-technology support and concurrent backscatter schemes.

This book delves into the intricacies of transformative processes, focusing particularly on radical and disruptive changes that shape markets, social systems, organizations, cities, and service ecosystems.

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This edited book provides a comprehensive framework for the integration of mathematical methodologies into biological research, emphasizing applications that directly address topics related to SDG 3 (Good Health and Well Being) and SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation).

The book describes the methodologies for dynamics formulation, balancing, and optimizing dynamic quantities of multibody systems, such as mechanisms and robots.

This book is devoted to the study of the turnpike phenomenon arising in optimal control theory.

This book covers Blockchain Technology and its emerging field by developing socio-economic systems viz.

This monograph introduces a new mathematical model in population dynamics that describes two species sharing the same environmental resources in a situation of open hostility.

This book provides an overview of software security analysis in a DevOps cycle including requirements formalisation, verification and continuous monitoring.

This book presents cutting-edge research on the impact of energy dependence and strategies to mitigate it.

This book offers an exploration of the historical and philosophical aspects of the field of control systems engineering.

This book highlights the presentation of methods for studying oscillations under external periodic influence and random changes in parameters in dynamic systems with nonlinearities that have discontinuities and kinks.