Dynamics and Control of Distributed Systems

Dynamics and Control of Distributed Systems
Author: Horn S. Tzou
Publisher:
Total Pages: 374
Release: 1998
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780521550741

Describes progress in an active area of research across a broad range of engineering disciplines.

Coordination Control of Distributed Systems

Coordination Control of Distributed Systems
Author: Jan H. van Schuppen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319104071

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.

Advanced Mechatronics

Advanced Mechatronics
Author: Dan S. Necsulescu
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2009
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9812771816

Presents issues regarding remote measurements and indirect monitoring and control of distributed systems in the general framework of ill-posed inverse problems. This book provides an overview of the main results in the inverse problem theory. It offers a presentation of basic results in discrete inverse theory.

Managing Distributed Dynamic Systems with Spatial Grasp Technology

Managing Distributed Dynamic Systems with Spatial Grasp Technology
Author: Peter Simon Sapaty
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2017-02-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319504614

The book describes a novel ideology and supporting information technology for integral management of both civil and defence-orientated large, distributed dynamic systems. The approach is based on a high-level Spatial Grasp Language, SGL, expressing solutions in physical, virtual, executive and combined environments in the form of active self-evolving and self-propagating patterns spatially matching the systems to be created, modified and controlled. The communicating interpreters of SGL can be installed in key system points, which may be in large numbers (up to millions and billions) and represent equipped humans, robots, laptops, smartphones, smart sensors, etc. Operating under gestalt-inspired scenarios in SGL initially injected from any points, these systems can be effectively converted into goal-driven spatial machines (rather than computers as dealing with physical matter too) capable of responding to numerous challenges caused by growing world dynamics in the 21st century. Including numerous practical examples, the book is a valuable resource for system managers and programmers.

Reconfigurable Distributed Control

Reconfigurable Distributed Control
Author: hector benitez
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2005-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1846281962

This informative monograph helps meet the challenge of applying distributed control to dynamical systems. It shows readers how to bring the best parts of various control paradigms to bear in making distributed control more flexible and responsive.

Model-Based Control of Networked Systems

Model-Based Control of Networked Systems
Author: Eloy Garcia
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2014-08-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319078038

This monograph introduces a class of networked control systems (NCS) called model-based networked control systems (MB-NCS) and presents various architectures and control strategies designed to improve the performance of NCS. The overall performance of NCS considers the appropriate use of network resources, particularly network bandwidth, in conjunction with the desired response of the system being controlled. The book begins with a detailed description of the basic MB-NCS architecture that provides stability conditions in terms of state feedback updates. It also covers typical problems in NCS such as network delays, network scheduling, and data quantization, as well as more general control problems such as output feedback control, nonlinear systems stabilization, and tracking control. Key features and topics include: Time-triggered and event-triggered feedback updates Stabilization of uncertain systems subject to time delays, quantization, and extended absence of feedback Optimal control analysis and design of model-based networked systems Parameter identification and adaptive stabilization of systems controlled over networks The MB-NCS approach to decentralized control of distributed systems Model-Based Control of Networked Systems will appeal to researchers, practitioners, and graduate students interested in the control of networked systems, distributed systems, and systems with limited feedback.