Force and Position Control of Mechatronic Systems provides an overview of the general concepts and technologies in the area of force and position control. Novel ideas and innovations related to this area are presented and reported in detail, and examples of applications in medical technology are given.
The book begins by introducing force sensing, and modelling of contacting objects. In then moves steadily through a variety of topics, including:
• disturbance observer-based force estimation;
• ...
Force and Position Control of Mechatronic Systems provides an overview of the general concepts and technologies in the area of force and pos...
This book provides an overview of the nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) concept for application to innovative combustion engines. Readers can use this book to become more expert in advanced combustion engine control and to develop and implement their own NMPC algorithms to solve challenging control tasks in the field. The significance of the advantages and relevancy for practice is demonstrated by real-world engine and vehicle application examples.
The author provides an overview of fundamental engine control systems, and addresses emerging control problems, showing how...
This book provides an overview of the nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) concept for application to innovative combustion engines. Readers c...
Industrial PID Controller Tuning presents a different view of the servo/regulator compromise that has been studied for a long time in industrial control research. Optimal tuning generally involves comparison of cost functions (e.g., a quadratic function of the error or a time-weighted absolute value of the error) but without taking advantage of available multi-objective optimization methods. The bookdoes make use of multi-objective optimization to account for several sources of disturbance, applying them to a more realistic problem: how to select the tuning of a...
Industrial PID Controller Tuning presents a different view of the servo/regulator compromise that has been studied for a long time in i...
The main focus of this book is a pair of cooperative control problems: consensus and cooperative output regulation. Its emphasis is on complex multi-agent systems characterized by strong nonlinearity, large uncertainty, heterogeneity, external disturbances and jointly connected switching communication topologies. The cooperative output regulation problem is a generalization of the classical output regulation problem to multi-agent systems and it offers a general framework for handling a variety of cooperative control problems such as consensus, formation, tracking and disturbance...
The main focus of this book is a pair of cooperative control problems: consensus and cooperative output regulation. Its emphasis is on complex mult...
This book is focused on the development of rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of advanced process control systems to improve process operational safety and cybersecurity for a wide range of nonlinear process systems.
Process Operational Safety and Cybersecurity develops designs for novel model predictive control systems accounting for operational safety considerations, presents theoretical analysis on recursive feasibility and simultaneous closed-loop stability and safety, and discusses practical considerations including data-driven modeling of nonlinear...
This book is focused on the development of rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of advanced process control systems to improve process o...
Process Plant Operating Procedures presents an introduction to the theory and applications of procedure synthesis that is primarily concerned with the task of conjecturing the sequence of controller (or operator) actions needed to achieve designated operational goals in a given system. In order to facilitate practical implementation, the formal problem statement, two alternative approaches, their validation methods and a series of realistic examples are provided.
The authors explore Petri nets and automata to identify the best paths leading to the specified goal of...
Process Plant Operating Procedures presents an introduction to the theory and applications of procedure synthesis that is primarily con...
Process Control details the core knowledge and practical skills that a successful process control practitioner needs. It explains the essential technologies that are in use in current industrial practice or which may be wanting for the future. The book focuses on practical considerations, not only on those that make a control solution work, but also on those that prevent it from failing, especially for complex control loops and plant-wide control solutions.After discussing the indispensable role of control in modern process industries, the authors concentrate on the...
Process Control details the core knowledge and practical skills that a successful process control practitioner needs. It explains the...
The main focus of this book is a pair of cooperative control problems: consensus and cooperative output regulation. Its emphasis is on complex multi-agent systems characterized by strong nonlinearity, large uncertainty, heterogeneity, external disturbances and jointly connected switching communication topologies. The cooperative output regulation problem is a generalization of the classical output regulation problem to multi-agent systems and it offers a general framework for handling a variety of cooperative control problems such as consensus, formation, tracking and disturbance...
The main focus of this book is a pair of cooperative control problems: consensus and cooperative output regulation. Its emphasis is on complex mult...
Process Control details the core knowledge and practical skills that a successful process control practitioner needs. It explains the essential technologies that are in use in current industrial practice or which may be wanting for the future. The book focuses on practical considerations, not only on those that make a control solution work, but also on those that prevent it from failing, especially for complex control loops and plant-wide control solutions.After discussing the indispensable role of control in modern process industries, the authors concentrate on the...
Process Control details the core knowledge and practical skills that a successful process control practitioner needs. It explains the...
Control of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles is an edited book that provides a single-volume snapshot on the state of the art in the field of control theory applied to the design of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aka “drones”, employed in a variety of applications. The homogeneous structure allows the reader to transition seamlessly through results in guidance, navigation, and control of UAVs, according to the canonical classification of the main components of a UAV’s autopilot.
Each chapter has been written to assist graduate students and practitioners in the...
Control of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles is an edited book that provides a single-volume snapshot on the state of the art in the field of ...