Advances in Control Theory and Applications

✍ Scribed by Manuel Béjar, Anibal Ollero, Federico Cuesta (auth.), Claudio Bonivento, Lorenzo Marconi, Carlo Rossi, Alberto Isidori (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 353
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is the outcome of the first CASY workshop on "Advances in Control Theory and Applications" which was held at University of Bologna on May 22-26, 2006. It consists of selected contributions by some of the invited speakers and contains recent results in control.

The volume is intended for engineers, researchers, and students in control engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Modeling and Control of Autonomous Helicopters....Pages 1-29
Efficient Quantization in the Average Consensus Problem....Pages 31-49
Human-Robot Interaction Control Using Force and Vision....Pages 51-70
A Dissipation Inequality for the Minimum Phase Property of Nonlinear Control Systems....Pages 71-83
Input Disturbance Suppression for Port-Hamiltonian Systems: An Internal Model Approach....Pages 85-98
A Systems Theory View of Petri Nets....Pages 99-127
Wireless Sensing with Power Constraints....Pages 129-160
The Important State Coordinates of a Nonlinear System....Pages 161-170
On Decentralized and Distributed Control of Partially-Observed Discrete Event Systems....Pages 171-184
A Unifying Approach to the Design of Nonlinear Output Regulators....Pages 185-200
Controller Design Through Random Sampling: An Example....Pages 201-212
Digital Control of High Performance Power Supplies for a Synchrotron Light Source....Pages 213-237
Distributed PCHD-Systems, from the Lumped to the Distributed Parameter Case....Pages 239-255
Observability and the Design of Fault Tolerant Estimation Using Structural Analysis....Pages 257-278
Robust Hybrid Control Systems: An Overview of Some Recent Results....Pages 279-302
Back Matter....Pages 303-310

✦ Subjects

Control Engineering; Systems Theory, Control