Group coordination and cooperative control are topics currently receiving a lot of interest. Coordinating the motion of a group of relatively simple and inexpensive agents can cover a larger operational area and achieve complex tasks exceeding the abilities of a single agent. This enables applications such as teams of robots for de-mining operations, aerospace formation flying for survey, fleets of AUVs for oceanographic mapping, and ships doing coordinated towing operations.
Inspired by the progress in the field, a Workshop on Group Coordination and Cooperative Control was...
Group coordination and cooperative control are topics currently receiving a lot of interest. Coordinating the motion of a group of relatively simpl...
Positive Systems are dynamic systems in which the relevant variables assume nonnegative values. These systems are quite common in applications where variables represent positive quantities such as populations, consumption of goods, densities of chemical species, probabilities etc. The development of theoretical models which take into account this positivity requirement has been a very active field of research for a long time.
This volume contains the contributions for The Second Multidisciplinary Symposium on Positive Systems: Theory and Applications (POSTA06) held in Grenoble,...
Positive Systems are dynamic systems in which the relevant variables assume nonnegative values. These systems are quite common in applications wher...
The proceedings of the First Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems Theory and Applications (POSTA 2003) held in Rome, Italy, August 28-30, 2003. Positive Systems are systems in which the relevant variables assume nonnegative values. These systems are quite common in applications where variables represent positive quantities such as populations, goods, money, time, data packets flowing in a network, densities of chemical species, probabilities, etc. The aim of the symposium was to join together researchers working in the different areas related to positive systems...
The proceedings of the First Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Positive Systems Theory and Applications (POSTA 2003) held in Rome, Italy...
Explicit Stability Conditions for Continuous Systems deals with non-autonomous linear and nonlinear continuous finite dimensional systems. Explicit conditions for the asymptotic, absolute, input-to-state and orbital stabilities are discussed. This monograph provides new tools for specialists in control system theory and stability theory of ordinary differential equations, with a special emphasis on the Aizerman problem. A systematic exposition of the approach to stability analysis based on estimates for matrix-valued functions is suggested and various classes of systems...
Explicit Stability Conditions for Continuous Systems deals with non-autonomous linear and nonlinear continuous finite dimensional ...
In this volume the important concept of switched and impulsive control is discussed, with a wide field of applications in the analysis and control of complex systems. This monograph provides the reader with a comprehensive coverage of switched and impulsive systems, including new original work with various applications such as switched server systems, scalable video coding systems, chaotic based secure communication, or quality of service on the internet. Switched and Impulsive Systems can be used as a reference or a text for a course at graduate level.
In this volume the important concept of switched and impulsive control is discussed, with a wide field of applications in the analysis and control ...
This monograph is based on the Ph.D. Thesis of the author 58]. Its goal is twofold: First, it presents most researchwork that has been done during his Ph.D., or at least the part of the work that is related with the joint spectral radius. This work was concerned with theoretical developments (part I) as well as the study of some applications (part II). As a second goal, it was the author's feeling that a survey on the state of the art on the joint spectral radius was really missing in the literature, so that the ?rst two chapters of part I present such a survey. The other chapters mainly...
This monograph is based on the Ph.D. Thesis of the author 58]. Its goal is twofold: First, it presents most researchwork that has been done during hi...
Nowadays, theresearchersintoControlTheoryanditsApplicationsaswellas Matrix Analysisare well awareand recognizethe importanceof PositiveS- tems. This volume contains the proceedings of the Third Multidisciplinary Symposium onPositiveSystems: Theory andApplications (POSTA09) held in Valencia, Spain, September 2 4, 2009. At present, this is the only world congress whose main topic is focused on this ?eld. After this third event, we thinkthatwehaveestablishedthebasisofaregulartriennialeventsupported in the task of the previous organizing committees and hope to have met the requirements of their...
Nowadays, theresearchersintoControlTheoryanditsApplicationsaswellas Matrix Analysisare well awareand recognizethe importanceof PositiveS- tems. This v...
Time-delay occurs in many dynamical systems such as biological systems, chemical systems, metallurgical processing systems, nuclear reactor, long transmission lines in pneumatic, hydraulic systems and electrical networks. Especially, in recent years, time-delay which exists in networked control s- temshasbroughtmorecomplexproblemintoanewresearcharea.Frequently, itisasourceofthegenerationofoscillation, instabilityandpoorperformance. Considerable e?ort has been applied to di?erent aspects of linear time-delay systems during recent years. Because the introduction of the delay factor renders the...
Time-delay occurs in many dynamical systems such as biological systems, chemical systems, metallurgical processing systems, nuclear reactor, long tran...
Papers in this collection partly represent the set of talks that were presented at Texas Tech University on the occasion of Daya's memorial workshop in the year 2007. Daya had a varied interest in the field of Dynamics and Control Theory and the papers bring out the essence of his involvement in these activities. He also had a large number of collaborators and this collection represent a good fraction of them. The papers included here cover his interest in control theory. Also included are papers from application areas that we believe are of strong interest to him.
Papers in this collection partly represent the set of talks that were presented at Texas Tech University on the occasion of Daya's memorial worksho...
The past few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in the field of multidimensional systems theory. This is concerned with systems whose trajectories depend not on one single variable (usually interpreted as time or frequency), but on several independent variables, such as the coordinates of an image. The behavioural approach introduced by J. C. Willems provides a particularly suitable framework for developing a linear systems theory in several variables. The book deals with the classical concepts of autonomy, controllability, observability, and stabilizability. All the tests and...
The past few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in the field of multidimensional systems theory. This is concerned with systems whose traje...
