System Theory: Modeling, Analysis and Control

✍ Scribed by Irvin C. Schick (auth.), Theodore E. Djaferis, Irvin C. Schick (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 493
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science 518
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

System Theory: Modeling, Analysis and Control contains thirty-three scientific papers covering a wide range of topics in systems and control. These papers have been contributed to a symposium organized to celebrate Sanjoy K. Mitter's 65th birthday. The following research topics are addressed: distributed parameter systems, stochastic control, filtering and estimation, optimization and optimal control, image processing and vision, hierarchical systems and hybrid control, nonlinear systems, and linear systems. Also included are three survey papers on optimization, nonlinear filtering, and nonlinear systems.
Recent advances are reported on the behavioral approach to systems, the relationship between differential games and robust control, estimation of diffusion processes, Markov processes, optimal control, hybrid control, stochastic control, spectral estimation, nonconvex quadratic programming, robust control, control algorithms and quantized linear systems. Innovative explorations are carried out on quantum systems from a control theory perspective, option valuation and hedging, three-dimensional medical visualization, computational structure biology image processing, and hierarchical approaches to complex systems, flow control, scheduling and force feedback in fluid mechanics. The contents reflect on past research accomplishments, current research activity, and future research directions in systems and control theory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Sanjoy K. Mitter: A Scholar, a Gentleman, and a Friend....Pages 1-22
Fictitious Domains and Approximate Controllability....Pages 23-38
Dissipative Distributed Systems....Pages 39-53
Systems Theory over Finitely Generated Abelian Groups....Pages 55-62
Regularity of Solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi Equations....Pages 63-74
On the Stochastic Control of Quantum Ensembles....Pages 75-96
Some Applications of Fractional Brownian Motion to Linear Systems....Pages 97-105
Uniform Stability of Controlled Markov Processes....Pages 107-120
Deterministic and Stochastic Approaches to Nonlinear Filtering....Pages 121-129
Risk-Averse Designs: From Exponential Cost to Stochastic Games....Pages 131-143
Map Estimation of Diffusions - An Updated Account....Pages 145-154
Probabilistic Pursuit....Pages 155-165
Advances in High-Resolution Spectral Estimation....Pages 167-179
Redundancy Elimination in the Estimation of Multiple Paths....Pages 181-188
Optimization — A Many Splendored Thing —....Pages 189-223
On the Regularity of Optimal Controls....Pages 225-232
Runge-Kutta Discretizations of Optimal Control Problems....Pages 233-244
Option Valuation and Hedging with Basis Risk....Pages 245-254
Nonconvex Quadratic Programming, Semidefinite Relaxations and Randomization Algorithms in Information and Decision Systems....Pages 255-274
On Area Preserving Mappings of Minimal Distortion....Pages 275-286
3D Virus Structures from Model-Based Inverse Problems....Pages 287-300
Some Extensions of the Spring Model for Image Processing....Pages 301-312
A Question about Hierarchical Systems....Pages 313-324
A Hybrid Control Architecture for Aggressive Maneuvering of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles....Pages 325-343
An Agent Based Identification System....Pages 345-351
A Decomposition Approach to Scheduling of Failure-Prone Transfer Lines....Pages 353-365
Two Timescale SPSA Algorithms for Rate-Based ABR Flow Control....Pages 367-378
Activation of Nonlinear Feedback Concepts....Pages 379-389
Categories of Nonlinear Dynamic Models....Pages 391-403
Comments on Dissipative Designs and the Tora Benchmark....Pages 405-417
Displacement Structure and H ∞ Problems....Pages 419-432
Quantized Linear Systems....Pages 433-462
Combined Simulation with Real-Time Force Feedback: A New Tool for Experimental Fluid Mechanics....Pages 463-474
Stability Preserving Maps....Pages 475-486
Back Matter....Pages 487-490

✦ Subjects

Electrical Engineering; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Mechanical Engineering