Vehicle Dynamics and Control

Vehicle Dynamics and Control
Author: Rajesh Rajamani
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2011-12-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1461414326

Vehicle Dynamics and Control provides a comprehensive coverage of vehicle control systems and the dynamic models used in the development of these control systems. The control system applications covered in the book include cruise control, adaptive cruise control, ABS, automated lane keeping, automated highway systems, yaw stability control, engine control, passive, active and semi-active suspensions, tire-road friction coefficient estimation, rollover prevention, and hybrid electric vehicles. In developing the dynamic model for each application, an effort is made to both keep the model simple enough for control system design but at the same time rich enough to capture the essential features of the dynamics. A special effort has been made to explain the several different tire models commonly used in literature and to interpret them physically. In the second edition of the book, chapters on roll dynamics, rollover prevention and hybrid electric vehicles have been added, and the chapter on electronic stability control has been enhanced. The use of feedback control systems on automobiles is growing rapidly. This book is intended to serve as a useful resource to researchers who work on the development of such control systems, both in the automotive industry and at universities. The book can also serve as a textbook for a graduate level course on Vehicle Dynamics and Control.

Advances in Statistical Control, Algebraic Systems Theory, and Dynamic Systems Characteristics

Advances in Statistical Control, Algebraic Systems Theory, and Dynamic Systems Characteristics
Author: Chang-Hee Won
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010-07-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0817647953

This volume is a collection of chapters covering recent advances in stochastic optimal control theory and algebraic systems theory. The book will be a useful reference for researchers and graduate students in systems and control, algebraic systems theory, and applied mathematics. Requiring only knowledge of undergraduate-level control and systems theory, the work may be used as a supplementary textbook in a graduate course on optimal control or algebraic systems theory.

Underwater Robots

Underwater Robots
Author: Gianluca Antonelli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2018-04-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319778994

A classic in underwater robotics. One of the first volumes in the “Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics” series, it has been a bestseller through the previous three editions. Fifteen years after the publication of the first edition, the fourth edition comes to print. The book addresses the main control aspects in underwater manipulation tasks. With respect to the third edition, it has been revised, extended and some concepts better clustered. The mathematical model with significant impact on the control strategy is discussed. The problem of controlling a 6-degrees-of-freedoms autonomous underwater vehicle is investigated and a survey of fault detection/tolerant strategies for unmanned underwater vehicles is provided. Inverse kinematics, dynamic and interaction control for underwater vehicle-manipulator systems are then discussed. The code used to generate most of the numerical simulations is made available and briefly discussed.

A First Course in Predictive Control

A First Course in Predictive Control
Author: J.A. Rossiter
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1351597159

The book presents a significant expansion in depth and breadth of the previous edition. It includes substantially more numerical illustrations and copious supporting MATLAB code that the reader can use to replicate illustrations or build his or her own. The code is deliberately written to be as simple as possible and easy to edit. The book is an excellent starting point for any researcher to gain a solid grounding in MPC concepts and algorithms before moving into application or more advanced research topics. Sample problems for readers are embedded throughout the chapters, and in-text questions are designed for readers to demonstrate an understanding of concepts through numerical simulation.

Nature-inspired Methods in Chemometrics: Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks

Nature-inspired Methods in Chemometrics: Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks
Author: Riccardo Leardi
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2003-12-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080522629

In recent years Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have progressively increased in importance amongst the techniques routinely used in chemometrics. This book contains contributions from experts in the field is divided in two sections (GA and ANN). In each part, tutorial chapters are included in which the theoretical bases of each technique are expertly (but simply) described. These are followed by application chapters in which special emphasis will be given to the advantages of the application of GA or ANN to that specific problem, compared to classical techniques, and to the risks connected with its misuse. This book is of use to all those who are using or are interested in GA and ANN. Beginners can focus their attentions on the tutorials, whilst the most advanced readers will be more interested in looking at the applications of the techniques. It is also suitable as a reference book for students. - Subject matter is steadily increasing in importance - Comparison of Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) with the classical techniques - Suitable for both beginners and advanced researchers

Adaptive Backstepping Control of Uncertain Systems with Actuator Failures, Subsystem Interactions, and Nonsmooth Nonlinearities

Adaptive Backstepping Control of Uncertain Systems with Actuator Failures, Subsystem Interactions, and Nonsmooth Nonlinearities
Author: Wei Wang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1351650890

In practice, actuators often undergo failures and various factors influence its effectiveness. Also due to the increasing complexity of large-scale systems, subsystems are often interconnected, whereas the interactions between any two subsystems are difficult to deal with. This book details a series of new methodologies of designing and analyzing adaptive backstepping control systems involving treatment on actuator failures, subsystem interactions and nonsmooth nonlinearities. Moreover, it discusses some interesting open issues in adaptive failure accommodation, decentralized adaptive control and distributed adaptive coordinated control.

Probabilistic Framework for Sensor Management

Probabilistic Framework for Sensor Management
Author: Marco Huber
Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2009
Genre: Electronic computers. Computer science
ISBN: 3866444052

A probabilistic sensor management framework is introduced, which maximizes the utility of sensor systems with many different sensing modalities by dynamically configuring the sensor system in the most beneficial way. For this purpose, techniques from stochastic control and Bayesian estimation are combined such that long-term effects of possible sensor configurations and stochastic uncertainties resulting from noisy measurements can be incorporated into the sensor management decisions.

CONTROL SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION – Volume XX

CONTROL SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION – Volume XX
Author: Heinz D. Unbehauen
Publisher: EOLSS Publications
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009-10-11
Genre:
ISBN: 1848261594

This Encyclopedia of Control Systems, Robotics, and Automation is a component of the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems EOLSS, which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. This 22-volume set contains 240 chapters, each of size 5000-30000 words, with perspectives, applications and extensive illustrations. It is the only publication of its kind carrying state-of-the-art knowledge in the fields of Control Systems, Robotics, and Automation and is aimed, by virtue of the several applications, at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students, Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs.