Automatic control engineering

This book is a self-contained collection of recent research findings providing a comprehensive and systematic unified framework for both analysis and synthesis for singularly perturbed systems.

Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems takes an anisotropy-based approach to the explanation of random input disturbance with an information-theoretic representation.

This book focuses on the development and methodologies of trajectory control of differential-drive wheeled nonholonomic mobile robots.

This book presents new technologies and applications in deep learning, artificial intelligence and robotics.

This book presents the technological basics and applications of small-scale (mm to sub-mm in length-scales) soft robots and devices, written for researchers in both academia and industry.

Soil and crop sensing is a fundamental component and the first important step in precision agriculture.

This book reveals that the way we perceive sex robots is how we perceive ourselves, overcoming the false human/non-human binary.

This proceedings volume highlights a selection of papers presented at the 7th International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, during March 19-23, 2018.

This book presents the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2016 held in Belgrade, Serbia, on June 30th-July 2nd, 2016.

This book is dedicated to user experience design for automated driving to address humane aspects of automated driving, e.

This book focuses on small flying drones and their applications in conducting geographic surveys.

This book presents a set of soft computing approaches and their application in data analytics, classification model, and control.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Blockchain and RPA Forum, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2021, which took place during September 6-10, 2021, in Rome, Italy.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the XII International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the XXIII International Conference on Robotics (Robotics '16), that  was held in Aachen, Germany, October 26th-27th, 2016.

This textbook is a concise yet precise supplement to traditional books on Signals and Systems, focusing exclusively on the continuous-time case.

This book comprises the latest achievements in research and development in educational robotics presented at the 13th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE), which was carried out as a purely virtual conference from April 27 to 28, 2022.

This edited monograph contains research contributions on a wide range of topics such as stochastic control systems, adaptive control, sliding mode control and parameter identification methods.

This book covers allaspects of robot intelligence from perception at sensor level and reasoning atcognitive level to behavior planning at execution level for each low levelsegment of the machine.

Communication-Protocol-Based Filtering and Control of Networked Systems is a self-contained treatment of the state of the art in communication-protocol-based filtering and control; recent advances in networked systems; and the potential for application in sensor networks.

The book Intelligent Systems and Applications - Proceedings of the 2020 Intelligent Systems Conference is a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wider range of topics in areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and their applications to the real world.

Perturbation Methods in Science and Engineering provides the fundamental and advanced topics in perturbation methods in science and engineering, from an application viewpoint.

This book focuses on modern technologies and systems for solving problems in the energy sector.

This book addresses the topic of autonomous flying robots physically interacting with the environment under the influence of wind.

This book focuses on computational modeling and simulation research that advances the current state-of-the-art regarding human factors in simulation and applied digital human modeling.

This collection examines implications of technological automation to global prosperity and peace.

The book covers a wide range of applied engineering research compactly presented in one volume, and shows innovative practical engineering solutions for automotive, marine and aviation industries, as well as power generation related to nonlinear vibrations excited by limited power sources.

In this book, the author deals with the mathematical modelling, nonlinear control and performance evaluation of a conceptual anti-aircraft gun based mobile air defence system engaging an attacking three-dimensional aerial target.

This book introduces a generic approach to model the use and adaptation of mental models, including the control over this.

This book provides insights into research in the field of artificial intelligence in combination with robotics technologies.

This brief presents methods for anti-windup control in the presence of saturating sensors, arbitrary external reference inputs, and constant or step-like disturbance inputs.

This book presents the latest results in the field of dynamic decoupling of robot manipulators obtained in France, Russia, China and Austria.

This brief provides an overview on the most relevant nonlinear phenomena in internal combustion engines with a particular emphasis on the use of nonlinear circuits in their modelling and control.

This book consists of papers presented at Automation 2018, an international conference held in Warsaw from March 21 to 23, 2018.

This treatment of modern topics relatedto the control of nonlinear systems is a collection of contributionscelebrating the work of Professor Henk Nijmeijer and honoring his 60thbirthday.

This book introduces the concept of policy decision emergence and its dynamics at the sub systemic level of the decision process.

This proceedings volume highlights the latest achievements in research and development in educational robotics, which were presented at the 8th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE 2017) in Sofia, Bulgaria, from April 26 to 28, 2017.

This book offers a unique compendium of the authors' own research on the use of theoretical stability analysis, showing how to take advantage of local stability design and ultimate boundedness for practical robot control.

The three volume set LNAI 10462, LNAI 10463, and LNAI 10464 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2017, held in Wuhan, China, in August 2017.

This book presents papers presented at the 4th EAI International Conference on Robotic Sensor Networks.

This volume presents the latest research and industrial applications in the areas of mechanism science, robotics and dynamics.

This book bridges fundamental gaps between control theory and formal methods.

This book is devoted to the development of complex methods and means of their implementation with using UAVs aimed for improving the safety and efficiency of the energy system.

This thesis introduces a new integrated algorithm for the detection of lane-level irregular driving.

This book of proceedings includes papers presenting the state of art in electrical engineering and control theory as well as their applications.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the First International Conference of IFToMM Italy (IFIT2016), held at the University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy, on December 1-2, 2016.

This book presents the proceedings of the 4th International Scientific Conference IC BCI 2021 Opole, Poland.

This thesis investigates the use of blade-pitch control and real-time wind measurements to reduce the structural loads on the rotors and blades of wind turbines.

This edited monograph provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of sliding mode control, focusing on event-triggered implementation.

Automation and Robotics in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Industry provides distinct and unified insight into current and future construction robotics, offering readers a comprehensive perspective for constructing a roadmap and illuminating improvements for a successful transition towards construction robotization.

This book is dedicated to the analysis and modelling of fractional behaviours that mainly result from physical stochastic phenomena (diffusion, adsorption or aggregation, etc.