Optimal Control of Wind Energy Systems is a thorough review of the main control issues in wind power generation, covering many industrial application problems.
Nonlinear and Adaptive Control with Applications provides a detailed treatment of the design of robust adaptive controllers for nonlinear systems with uncertainties.
Precision Motion Control focuses on enabling technologies for precision engineering - issues of direct importance to be addressed in the overall system design and realization: precision instrumentation and measurement, geometrical calibration and compensation, and motion control.
Information consensus guarantees that robot vehicles sharing information over a network topology have a consistent view of information critical to the coordination task.
Stochastic control is one of the methods being used to find optimal decision-making strategies in fields such as operations research and mathematical finance.
Recent rapid globalisation of manufacturing industries leads to a drive and thirst for rapid advancements in technological development and expertise in the fields of advanced design and manufacturing, especially at their interfaces.
Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally.
Networked control systems (NCS) confer advantages of cost reduction, system diagnosis and flexibility, minimizing wiring and simplifying the addition and replacement of individual elements; efficient data sharing makes taking globally intelligent control decisions easier with NCS.
"e;Designing Inclusive Futures"e; reflects the need to explore, in a coherent way, the issues and practicalities that lie behind design that is intended to extend our active future lives.
Identification of Continuous-time Models from Sampled Data presents an up-to-date view of this active area of research, describing recent methods and software tools and offering new results in areas such as: time and frequency domain optimal statistical approaches to identification; parametric identification for linear, nonlinear and stochastic systems; identification using instrumental variable, subspace and data compression methods; closed-loop and robust identification; and continuous-time modeling from non-uniformly sampled data and for systems with delay.
In the last decade the remarkable advances in computing and networking have sparked an enormous interest in deploying automatic speech recognition in devices and networks, and the trend is accelerating.
A rigorous but accessible treatment of the subject intertwining theoretical techniques with hands-on laboratory instruction and divided into three parts, this book covers various aspects of the digital signal processing (DSP) "e;problem"e;.
"e;Power Electronics in Smart Electrical Energy Networks"e; introduces a new viewpoint on power electronics, re-thinking the basic philosophy governing electricity distribution systems.
Collected here are 112 papers concerned with all manner of new directions in manufacturing systems given at the 41st CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems.
This book presents the proceedings of the ASEAN-Australian Engineering Congress (AAEC2022), held as a virtual event, 13-15 July 2022 with the theme "e;Engineering Solutions in the Age of Digital Disruption"e;.
This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Sustainability and Emerging Technologies for Smart Manufacturing (SETSM 2024) held on 27-28 April at Hanoi in Vietnam.
Interoperability: the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort from the user is a key issue in manufacturing and industrial enterprise generally.
"e;Modelling and Analysis of Hybrid Supervisory Systems"e; introduces a modelling formalism that merges Petri nets, differential equation systems and object-oriented methods; a formalism that is adequate for modelling complex and large-scale systems.
Electrical power is ubiquitous and continuously increasing in demand, with the result that power systems often operate close to their stability and thermal ratings.
The application of machine vision to autonomous vehicles is an increasingly important area of research with exciting applications in industry, defense, and transportation likely in coming decades.
The purpose of this book is to present a self-contained description of the fun- damentals of the theory of nonlinear control systems, with special emphasis on the differential geometric approach.
"e;Advanced Control of Industrial Processes"e; presents the concepts and algorithms of advanced industrial process control and on-line optimisation within the framework of a multilayer structure.
The intricate relationship between information technologies, community, and social memory is critical to a fuller understanding of the evolution of our societies.