Automatic control engineering

This book provides a review of the state-of-the-art of agricultural robotics in different aspects of PA, the goals, and the gaps.

This book covers some selected problems of the descriptor integer and fractional order positive continuous-time and discrete-time systems.

The book discusses the emerging topic of comprehensive energy management in electric vehicles from the viewpoint of academia and from the industrial perspective.

This proceedings book comprises the latest achievements in research and development in educational robotics presented at the 11th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE), which was carried out as a purely virtual conference from September 30 to October 2, 2020.

This book presents an introduction to the analysis of general movements in 3D space, especially for movements of the human body.

These are selected papers presented at the 5th International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB 2016).

This proceedings volume showcases the latest achievements in research and development in Educational Robotics presented at the 7th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE) held in Vienna, Austria, during April 14-15, 2016.

This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the seventh edition of the international conference  Complex Systems Design & Management Paris (CSD&M Paris 2016) which took place in Paris (France) on the December 13-14, 2016 These proceedings cover the most recent trends in the emerging field of complex systems sciences & practices from an industrial and academic perspective, including the main industrial domains (aeronautic & aerospace, defense & security, electronics & robotics, energy & environment, healthcare & welfare services, software & e-services, transportation), scientific & technical topics (systems fundamentals, systems architecture & engineering, systems metrics & quality, system is modeling tools) and system types (artificial ecosystems, embedded systems, software & information systems, systems of systems, transportation systems).

This book presents versatile, modern and creative applications of graph theory in mechanical engineering, robotics and computer networks.

The thesis presents new results on multi-agent formation control, focusing on the distributed stabilization control of rigid formation shapes.

This book explores cloud robotics by casting a light on key issues and proposing a novel approach towards implementation and practical aspects to allow for the widespread adoption of cloud-based functionality.

This textbook offers a comprehensive treatment of vehicle dynamics using an innovative, compelling approach, suitable for engineering students and professionals alike.

The book deals with intelligent control of mobile robots, presenting the state-of-the-art in the field, and introducing new control algorithms developed and tested by the authors.

This book presents the singular configurations associated with a robot mechanism, together with robust methods for their computation, interpretation, and avoidance path planning.

This textbook explores reactive power control and voltage stability and explains how they relate to different forms of power generation and transmission.

This volume constitutes revised selected papers from the four workshops collocated with the 19th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods, SEFM 2021, held virtually during December 6-10, 2021.

The book introduces novel algorithms for designing fault-tolerant control (FTC) systems using the behavioral system theoretic approach, and presents a demonstration of successful novel FTC mechanisms on several benchmark examples.

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 research related to smart devices and Internet of Things (IoT) that are intended to advance environmental sustainability.

This book, dedicated to Professor Georgi M.

This book explores the development of humanoid robots for helping children with autism develop social skills based on fieldwork in the UK and the USA.

This book presents nearly 90 carefully selected contributions at the 12th International Conference Mechatronics, which took place in Brno, Czech Republic on 6-8 September 2017.

This book collects papers from the 8th Conference on Non-Integer Order Calculus and Its Applications that have been held on September 20-21, 2016 in Zakopane, Poland.

This book focuses on the fields of fuzzy logic, bio-inspired algorithm, especially the differential evolution algorithm and also considering the fuzzy control area.

The volume Software Engineering Perspectives and Application in Intelligent Systems presents new approaches and methods to real-world problems, and in particular, exploratory research that describes novel approaches in the field of Software Engineering.

This book focuses on the importance of human factors in the development of reliable and safe unmanned systems.

This book helps students, researchers, and practicing engineers to understand the theoretical framework of control and system theory for discrete-time stochastic systems so that they can then apply its principles to their own stochastic control systems and to the solution of control, filtering, and realization problems for such systems.

This book discusses various methods for designing different kinds of observers, such as the Luenberger observer, unknown input observers, discontinuous observers, sliding mode observers, observers for impulsive systems, observers for nonlinear Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems, and observers for electrical machines.

This book is the first research collection by the Malaysian Society for Automatic Control Engineers (MACE).

This Springer brief addresses the challenges encountered in the study of  the optimization of time-nonhomogeneous Markov chains.

This book discusses the developments in the advanced control and intelligent automation for complex systems completed over the last two decades, including the progress in advanced control theory and method, intelligent control and decision-making of complex metallurgical processes, intelligent systems and machine learning, intelligent robot systems design and control, and prediction and control technology for renewable energy.

This book presents advanced technologies used in practice to enable early recognition and tracking of various threats to national security.

This brief presents a suite of computationally efficient methods for bounding trajectories of dynamical systems with multi-dimensional intervals, or 'boxes'.

This book tackles the latest research trends in technology acceptance models and theories.

The book examines the integration of IoT, Blockchain, and Smart Healthcare, providing a comprehensive analysis of these advanced technologies and their impact on the healthcare industry.

This book provides recent advances in analysis and synthesis of Large-scale network systems (LSNSs) with sampled-data communication and non-identical nodes.

This book focuses on the intelligent control design for both the induction motor (IM) and the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM).

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of machine science and mechanical engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 11th International Conference on Machine and Industrial Design in Mechanical Engineering (KOD), held in Novi Sad, Serbia on June 10-12, 2021.

This book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to undergraduate students enrolled in Electrical Engineering and related disciplines.

This book is the sixth volume of the successful book series on Robot Operating System: The Complete Reference.

This thesis reports on novel methods for gain-scheduling and fault tolerant control (FTC).

This proceedings volume highlights a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam on March 16-20, 2015.

Mapping and localization are two essential tasks in autonomous mobile robotics.

This book provides a concise and comprehensive overview of vehicular communication technologies.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Cybernetics Perspectives in Systems session of the 11th Computer Science On-line Conference 2022 (CSOC 2022), which was held in April 2022 online.

This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the methodological and technical knowledge necessary for the development of embedded systems.

This book contains the papers that were presented at the 17th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR).

This book presents the current state of the problem of describing the musculoskeletal system of a person.

Tele operation systems, in which robots are controlled remotely, are a potential solution to performing tasks in remote, small, and hazardous environments.

This book presents time synchronization and its essential role as a conduit of optimized networks and as one of the key imperatives of ubiquitous connectivity.