Recent Advances in Learning and Control

✍ Scribed by Teodoro Alamo, Roberto Tempo, Eduardo F. (auth.), Vincent D. Blondel PhD, Stephen P. Boyd PhD, Hidenori Kimura PhD (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 371
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is composed of invited papers on learning and control. The contents form the proceedings of a workshop held in January 2008, in Hyderabad, that honoured the 60th birthday of Doctor Mathukumalli Vidyasagar.

The 14 papers, written by international specialists in the field, cover a variety of interests within the broader field of learning and control. The editors have grouped these into the following 3 categories: learning and computational issues, learing for communication and identification, applications of learning and control.

The diversity of the research presented gives the reader a unique opportunity to explore a comprehensive overview of a field of great interest to control and system theorists.

The reader will benefit from the expert participants’ ideas on the exciting new approaches to control and system theory and their predictions of future directions for the subject that were discussed at the workshop.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Statistical Learning Theory: A Pack-based Strategy for Uncertain Feasibility and Optimization Problems....Pages 1-14
UAV Formation Control: Theory and Application....Pages 15-33
Electrical and Mechanical Passive Network Synthesis....Pages 35-50
Output Synchronization of Nonlinear Systems with Relative Degree One....Pages 51-64
On the Computation of Optimal Transport Maps Using Gradient Flows and Multiresolution Analysis....Pages 65-78
Realistic Anchor Positioning for Sensor Localization....Pages 79-94
Graph Implementations for Nonsmooth Convex Programs....Pages 95-110
When Is a Linear Continuous-time System Easy or Hard to Control in Practice?....Pages 111-124
Metrics and Morphing of Power Spectra....Pages 125-135
A New Type of Neural Computation....Pages 137-147
Getting Mobile Autonomous Robots to Form a Prescribed Geometric Arrangement....Pages 149-159
Convex Optimization in Infinite Dimensional Spaces....Pages 161-179
The Servomechanism Problem for SISO Positive LTI Systems....Pages 181-193
Passivity-based Stability of Interconnection Structures....Pages 195-204
Identification of Linear Continuous-time Systems Based on Iterative Learning Control....Pages 205-218
A Pontryagin Maximum Principle for Systems of Flows....Pages 219-232
Safe Operation and Control of Diesel Particulate Filters Using Level Set Methods....Pages 233-247
Robust Control of Smart Material-based Actuators....Pages 249-262
Behaviors Described by Rational Symbols and the Parametrization of the Stabilizing Controllers....Pages 263-277
Back Matter....Pages 279-279

✦ Subjects

Control Engineering; Systems Theory, Control; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Communications Engineering, Networks; Biomedical Engineering