Automation and Control Engineering
Modeling and Control for Micro/Nano Devices and Systems
1st Edition
Edited
By Ning Xi, Mingjun Zhang, Guangyong Li
March 29, 2017
Micro/nano-scale engineering—especially the design and implementation of ultra-fast and ultra-scale energy devices, sensors, and cellular and molecular systems—remains a daunting challenge. Modeling and control has played an essential role in many technological breakthroughs throughout the course ...
Nonlinear Control of Dynamic Networks
1st Edition
By Tengfei Liu, Zhong-Ping Jiang, David J. Hill
March 29, 2017
Significant progress has been made on nonlinear control systems in the past two decades. However, many of the existing nonlinear control methods cannot be readily used to cope with communication and networking issues without nontrivial modifications. For example, small quantization errors may cause...
Quantitative Process Control Theory
1st Edition
By Weidong Zhang
March 29, 2017
Quantitative Process Control Theory explains how to solve industrial system problems using a novel control system design theory. This easy-to-use theory does not require designers to choose a weighting function and enables the controllers to be designed or tuned for quantitative engineering ...
Tensor Product Model Transformation in Polytopic Model-Based Control
1st Edition
By Péter Baranyi, Yeung Yam, Péter Várlaki
March 29, 2017
Tensor Product Model Transformation in Polytopic Model-Based Control offers a new perspective of control system design. Instead of relying solely on the formulation of more effective LMIs, which is the widely adopted approach in existing LMI-related studies, this cutting-edge book calls for a ...
Doubly Fed Induction Generators: Control for Wind Energy
1st Edition
By Edgar N. Sanchez, Riemann Ruiz-Cruz
October 10, 2016
Doubly Fed Induction Generators: Control for Wind Energy provides a detailed source of information on the modeling and design of controllers for the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) used in wind energy applications. Focusing on the use of nonlinear control techniques, this book: Discusses ...
Real-Time Rendering: Computer Graphics with Control Engineering
1st Edition
By Gabriyel Wong, Jianliang Wang
October 14, 2013
Consumers today expect extremely realistic imagery generated in real time for interactive applications such as computer games, virtual prototyping, and scientific visualisation. However, the increasing demands for fidelity coupled with rapid advances in hardware architecture pose a challenge: how ...
Reliable Control and Filtering of Linear Systems with Adaptive Mechanisms
1st Edition
By Guang-Hong Yang, Dan Ye
July 15, 2010
More and more, the advanced technological systems of today rely on sophisticated control systems designed to assure greater levels of safe operation while optimizing performance. Rather than assuming always perfect conditions, these systems require adaptive approaches capable of coping with ...
Reinforcement Learning and Dynamic Programming Using Function Approximators
1st Edition
By Lucian Busoniu, Robert Babuska, Bart De Schutter, Damien Ernst
April 29, 2010
From household appliances to applications in robotics, engineered systems involving complex dynamics can only be as effective as the algorithms that control them. While Dynamic Programming (DP) has provided researchers with a way to optimally solve decision and control problems involving complex ...
Modeling and Control of Vibration in Mechanical Systems
1st Edition
By Chunling Du, Lihua Xie
April 16, 2010
From the ox carts and pottery wheels the spacecrafts and disk drives, efficiency and quality has always been dependent on the engineer’s ability to anticipate and control the effects of vibration. And while progress in negating the noise, wear, and inefficiency caused by vibration has been made, ...
Sliding Mode Control in Electro-Mechanical Systems
2nd Edition
By Vadim Utkin, Juergen Guldner, Jingxin Shi
May 01, 2009
Apply Sliding Mode Theory to Solve Control Problems Interest in SMC has grown rapidly since the first edition of this book was published. This second edition includes new results that have been achieved in SMC throughout the past decade relating to both control design methodology and applications....
Linear Control Theory: Structure, Robustness, and Optimization
1st Edition
By Shankar P. Bhattacharyya, Aniruddha Datta, Lee H. Keel
January 30, 2009
Successfully classroom-tested at the graduate level, Linear Control Theory: Structure, Robustness, and Optimization covers three major areas of control engineering (PID control, robust control, and optimal control). It provides balanced coverage of elegant mathematical theory and useful ...
Intelligent Systems: Modeling, Optimization, and Control
1st Edition
By Yung C. Shin, Chengying Xu
December 22, 2008
Providing a thorough introduction to the field of soft computing techniques, Intelligent Systems: Modeling, Optimization, and Control covers every major technique in artificial intelligence in a clear and practical style. This book highlights current research and applications, addresses issues ...