Adaptive and Learning Systems: Theory and Applications

✍ Scribed by Kumpati S. Narendra, Anuradha M. Annaswamy (auth.), Kumpati S. Narendra (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 410
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume offers a glimpse of the status of research in adaptive and learning systems in 1985. In recent years these areas have spawned a multiplicity of ideas so rapidly that the average research worker or practicing engineer is overwhelmed by the flood of information. The Yale Workshop on Applications of Adaptive Systems Theory was organized in 1979 to provide a brief respite from this deluge, wherein critical issues may be examined in a calm and collegial environment. The fourth of the series having been held in May 1985, it has now become well established as a biennial forum for the lively exchange of ideas in the ever changing domain of adaptive systems. The scope of this book is broad and ranges from theoretical investigations to practical applications. It includes twenty eight papers by leaders in the field, selected from the Pro­ ceedings of the Fourth Yale Workshop and divided into five sections. I have provided a brief introduction to each section so that it can be read as a self-contained unit. The first section, devoted to adaptive control theory, suggests the intensity of activity in the field and reveals signs of convergence towards some common themes by workers with rather different moti­ vation. Preliminary results concerning the reduced order model problem are dramatically changing the way we view the field and bringing it closer to other areas such as robust linear control where major advances have been recently reported.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Robust Adaptive Control....Pages 3-31
Methods of Averaging for Adaptive Systems....Pages 33-45
A Robust Indirect Adaptive Control Approach....Pages 47-55
Global Stability of a Direct Adaptive Control Scheme With Respect to a Graph Topology....Pages 57-72
Robust Discrete-Time Adaptive Control....Pages 73-85
Identification and Adaptive Control of Linear Stochastic Systems....Pages 87-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-104
On Practical Implementations of Adaptive Control....Pages 105-118
Self Tuning and Adaptive Control of Chemical Processes....Pages 119-130
Application of Multivariable Adaptive Control Schemes to Distillation Columns....Pages 131-147
The EXACT Pattern Recognition Adaptive Controller, a User-Oriented Commercial Success....Pages 149-163
Self-Cohering a Large, Distorted Antenna for Microwave Imaging....Pages 165-173
Identification of Robot Dynamics: An Application of Recursive Estimation....Pages 175-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-196
Recent Developments in Learning Automata....Pages 197-211
Learning Automata Models for Adaptive Flow Control in Packet-Switching Networks....Pages 213-227
Application of Learning Automata to Image Data Compression....Pages 229-234
Cooperativity in Networks of Pattern Recognizing Stochastic Learning Automata....Pages 235-246
The Genetic Algorithm Approach: Why, How, and What Next?....Pages 247-253
Knowledge Growth in an Artificial Animal....Pages 255-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-266
Issues in Control Design for Large Space Structures....Pages 267-286
Progress in Adaptive Control of Flexible Spacecraft Using Lattice Filters....Pages 287-296
Front Matter....Pages 265-266
The Search for Appropriate Actuator Distribution Criteria in Large Space Structures Control....Pages 297-307
Direct Model Reference Adaptive Control in Infinite-Dimensional Hilbert Space....Pages 309-326
Front Matter....Pages 329-330
A Survey on Advances in the Theory of Computational Robotics....Pages 331-337
Continuous Robot Motion Planning In Unknown Environment....Pages 339-358
Impedance Control Applied to Automated Deburring....Pages 359-366
The Potential Field Approach And Operational Space Formulation In Robot Control....Pages 367-377
Mathematical Theory of Learning with Applications to Robot Control....Pages 379-388
Automatic Planning and Control of Robot Natural Motion Via Feedback....Pages 389-402
Back Matter....Pages 403-418

✦ Subjects

Mathematical Logic and Foundations