Selected Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics and Theoretical Electrical Engineering
Selected Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics and Theoretical Electrical Engineering

Author: Kyandoghere Kyamakya

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 3642377815

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This book contains a collection of recent advanced contributions in the field of nonlinear dynamics and synchronization, including selected applications in the area of theoretical electrical engineering. The present book is divided into twenty-one chapters grouped in five parts. The first part focuses on theoretical issues related to chaos and synchronization and their potential applications in mechanics, transportation, communication and security. The second part handles dynamic systems modelling and simulation with special applications to real physical systems and phenomena. The third part discusses some fundamentals of electromagnetics (EM) and addresses the modelling and simulation in some real physical electromagnetic scenarios. The fourth part mainly addresses stability concerns. Finally, the last part assembles some sample applications in the area of optimization, data mining, pattern recognition and image processing.

Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management, Volume 1
Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management, Volume 1

Author: Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2001-07-01

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1591400309

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Advanced Topics in Information Resources Management features the latest research findings dealing with all aspects of information resources management, managerial and organizational applications, as well as implications of information technology organizations. It aims to be instrumental in the improvement and development of the theory and practice of information resources management, appealing to both practicing managers and academics.

Distributed Control of Robotic Networks
Distributed Control of Robotic Networks

Author: Francesco Bullo

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2009-07-06

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1400831474

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This self-contained introduction to the distributed control of robotic networks offers a distinctive blend of computer science and control theory. The book presents a broad set of tools for understanding coordination algorithms, determining their correctness, and assessing their complexity; and it analyzes various cooperative strategies for tasks such as consensus, rendezvous, connectivity maintenance, deployment, and boundary estimation. The unifying theme is a formal model for robotic networks that explicitly incorporates their communication, sensing, control, and processing capabilities--a model that in turn leads to a common formal language to describe and analyze coordination algorithms. Written for first- and second-year graduate students in control and robotics, the book will also be useful to researchers in control theory, robotics, distributed algorithms, and automata theory. The book provides explanations of the basic concepts and main results, as well as numerous examples and exercises. Self-contained exposition of graph-theoretic concepts, distributed algorithms, and complexity measures for processor networks with fixed interconnection topology and for robotic networks with position-dependent interconnection topology Detailed treatment of averaging and consensus algorithms interpreted as linear iterations on synchronous networks Introduction of geometric notions such as partitions, proximity graphs, and multicenter functions Detailed treatment of motion coordination algorithms for deployment, rendezvous, connectivity maintenance, and boundary estimation

Distributed Average Tracking in Multi-agent Systems
Distributed Average Tracking in Multi-agent Systems

Author: Fei Chen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 3030395367

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This book presents a systematic study of an emerging field in the development of multi-agent systems. In a wide spectrum of applications, it is now common to see that multiple agents work cooperatively to accomplish a complex task. The book assists the implementation of such applications by promoting the ability of multi-agent systems to track — using local communication only — the mean value of signals of interest, even when these change rapidly with time and when no individual agent has direct access to the average signal across the whole team; for example, when a better estimation/control performance of multi-robot systems has to be guaranteed, it is desirable for each robot to compute or track the averaged changing measurements of all the robots at any time by communicating with only local neighboring robots. The book covers three factors in successful distributed average tracking: algorithm design via nonsmooth and extended PI control; distributed average tracking for double-integrator, general-linear, Euler–Lagrange, and input-saturated dynamics; and applications in dynamic region-following formation control and distributed convex optimization. The book presents both the theory and applications in a general but self-contained manner, making it easy to follow for newcomers to the topic. The content presented fosters research advances in distributed average tracking and inspires future research directions in the field in academia and industry.

2014 International Conference on Mechanical Design, Manufacture and Automation Engineering (MDMAE2014)
2014 International Conference on Mechanical Design, Manufacture and Automation Engineering (MDMAE2014)

Author: D. P. Yasin

Publisher: DEStech Publications, Inc

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 1605951560

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Automation Engineering (MDMAE2014) is to provide a platform for all researchers in the field of Mechanical, Manufacture, Automation and Material Engineering to share the most advanced knowledge from both academic and industrial world, and to communicate with each other about their experiences and the most up-to-date research achievements, discussing forward issues and future prospects, seeking a better way to solve practical problems in this fields. As the first international conference on MDMAE, consisting of five main topics: Mechanical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Manufacturing Systems, Materials Engineering and Measurement and Test, which offer attendees free space to present their inspiring works and academic achievements mixed with the atmosphere of industry and academia, it has attracted many scholars, researchers and practitioners in these fields from various countries to get together in this conference, sharing their latest research achievements with each other , enriching their professional knowledge and broadening their horizons as well.

Complex Sciences
Complex Sciences

Author: Jie Zhou

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-06-26

Total Pages: 1219

ISBN-13: 3642024661

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I was invited to join the Organizing Committee of the First International Conference on Complex Sciences: Theory and Applications (Complex 2009) as its ninth member. At that moment, eight distinguished colleagues, General Co-chairs Eugene Stanley and Gaoxi Xiao, Technical Co-chairs János Kertész and Bing-Hong Wang, Local Co-chairs Hengshan Wang and Hong-An Che, Publicity Team Shi Xiao and Yubo Wang, had spent hundreds of hours pushing the conference half way to its birth. Ever since then, I have been amazed to see hundreds of papers flooding in, reviewed and commented on by the TPC members. Finally, more than 200 contributions were - lected for the proceedings currently in your hands. They include about 200 papers from the main conference (selected from more than 320 submissions) and about 33 papers from the five collated workshops: Complexity Theory of Art and Music (COART) Causality in Complex Systems (ComplexCCS) Complex Engineering Networks (ComplexEN) Modeling and Analysis of Human Dynamics (MANDYN) Social Physics and its Applications (SPA) Complex sciences are expanding their colonies at such a dazzling speed that it - comes literally impossible for any conference to cover all the frontiers.

Coordination Control of Distributed Systems
Coordination Control of Distributed Systems

Author: Jan H. van Schuppen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 3319104071

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This book describes how control of distributed systems can be advanced by an integration of control, communication, and computation. The global control objectives are met by judicious combinations of local and nonlocal observations taking advantage of various forms of communication exchanges between distributed controllers. Control architectures are considered according to increasing degrees of cooperation of local controllers: fully distributed or decentralized control, control with communication between controllers, coordination control, and multilevel control. The book covers also topics bridging computer science, communication, and control, like communication for control of networks, average consensus for distributed systems, and modeling and verification of discrete and of hybrid systems. Examples and case studies are introduced in the first part of the text and developed throughout the book. They include: control of underwater vehicles, automated-guided vehicles on a container terminal, control of a printer as a complex machine, and control of an electric power system. The book is composed of short essays each within eight pages, including suggestions and references for further research and reading. By reading the essays collected in the book Coordination Control of Distributed Systems, graduate students and post-docs will be introduced to the research frontiers in control of decentralized and of distributed systems. Control theorists and practitioners with backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering will find in the book information and inspiration to transfer to their fields of interest the state-of-art in coordination control.

Proceedings of the International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering 2019
Proceedings of the International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering 2019

Author: Zhongliang Jing

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-29

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9811517738

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This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Aerospace System Science and Engineering (ICASSE 2019), held in Toronto, Canada, on July 30–August 1, 2019, and jointly organized by the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. ICASSE 2019 provided a forum that brought together experts on aeronautics and astronautics to share new ideas and findings. These proceedings present high-quality contributions in the areas of aerospace system science and engineering, including topics such as trans-space vehicle system design and integration, air vehicle systems, space vehicle systems, near-space vehicle systems, aerospace robotics and unmanned systems, communication, navigation and surveillance, aerodynamics and aircraft design, dynamics and control, aerospace propulsion, avionics systems, optoelectronic systems, and air traffic management.

Proceedings of 2016 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference
Proceedings of 2016 Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference

Author: Yingmin Jia

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-09-21

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 9811023387

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These proceedings present selected research papers from CISC’16, held in Xiamen, China. The topics include Multi-agent system, Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Intelligence, Complex systems, Computation intelligence and soft computing, Intelligent control, Advanced control technology, Robotics and applications, Intelligent information processing, Iterative learning control, Machine Learning, and etc. Engineers and researchers from academia, industry, and government can get an insight view of the solutions combining ideas from multiple disciplines in the field of intelligent systems.

Distributed Consensus with Visual Perception in Multi-Robot Systems
Distributed Consensus with Visual Perception in Multi-Robot Systems

Author: Eduardo Montijano

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-02-23

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 3319156993

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This monograph introduces novel responses to the different problems that arise when multiple robots need to execute a task in cooperation, each robot in the team having a monocular camera as its primary input sensor. Its central proposition is that a consistent perception of the world is crucial for the good development of any multi-robot application. The text focuses on the high-level problem of cooperative perception by a multi-robot system: the idea that, depending on what each robot sees and its current situation, it will need to communicate these things to its fellows whenever possible to share what it has found and keep updated by them in its turn. However, in any realistic scenario, distributed solutions to this problem are not trivial and need to be addressed from as many angles as possible. Distributed Consensus with Visual Perception in Multi-Robot Systems covers a variety of related topics such as: • distributed consensus algorithms; • data association and robustness problems; • convergence speed; and • cooperative mapping. The book first puts forward algorithmic solutions to these problems and then supports them with empirical validations working with real images. It provides the reader with a deeper understanding of the problems associated to the perception of the world by a team of cooperating robots with onboard cameras. Academic researchers and graduate students working with multi-robot systems, or investigating problems of distributed control or computer vision and cooperative perception will find this book of material assistance with their studies.