Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Automation

The Festschrift in celebration of John William Helton's pioneering work, Mathematical Methods in Systems, Optimization, and Control comprises a careful selection of articles on systems and control theory, operator theory, and optimization. The book follows Helton's original and long lasting contributions which have shaped control theory and operator theory during the last decades, with specific emphasis on topics aimed at direct applications to current research areas of high impact and interest.

The book, by virtue of its diverse contents, strong interdisciplinary contents,...

This practical introduction focuses on how to design integrated solutions for industrial vision tasks from individual algorithms. The book is now available in a revised second edition that takes into account the current technological developments, including camera technology and color imaging processing. It gives a hands-on guide for setting up automated visual inspection systems using real-world examples and the NeuroCheck(r) standard software that has proven industrial strength integrated in thousands of applications in real-world production lines. Based on many years of experience in...

Moving on from earlier stochastic and robust control paradigms, this book introduces the reader to the fundamentals of probabilistic methods in the analysis and design of uncertain systems. It significantly reduces the computational cost of high-quality control and the complexity of the algorithms involved.

With contributions from distinguished international authors, the material presented here focuses upon new findings in the field of control including interesting applications. As well as being informative, it is a useful tool for practitioners of systems and control to ascertain new developments in the field.

Passivity-based Model Predictive Control for Mobile Vehicle Navigation represents a complete theoretical approach to the adoption of passivity-based model predictive control (MPC) for autonomous vehicle navigation in both indoor and outdoor environments. The brief also introduces analysis of the worst-case scenario that might occur during the task execution. Some of the questions answered in the text include:

- how to use an MPC optimization framework for the mobile vehicle navigation approach;

- how to guarantee safe task completion even in complex environments including...