Biology and Control Theory: Current Challenges

Biology and Control Theory: Current Challenges
Author: Isabelle Queinnec
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2007-08-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540719881

Creating some links between control feedback and biology modeling communities based on similarities in modeling, observing and perceiving alive structures, and analyzing interconnections between biological structures and subsystems was the main objective of this volume. In this context, biology systems need appropriate analysis tools due to their structure and hierarchy, complexity and environment interference, and we believe that these aspects may generate interesting research topics in control area. Indeed, several works, raising the potential impact of control developments to bring some beginning of answers in the context of biological systems, have been published in the recent years. The idea of this book was conceived in the context mentioned above with the objective to help in claiming many of the problems for control researchers, starting discussions and opening interactive debates between the control and biology communities, and, finally, to alert graduate students to the many interesting ideas at the frontier between control feedback theory and biology.

Delay Differential Equations and Applications to Biology

Delay Differential Equations and Applications to Biology
Author: Fathalla A. Rihan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2021-08-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9811606269

This book discusses the numerical treatment of delay differential equations and their applications in bioscience. A wide range of delay differential equations are discussed with integer and fractional-order derivatives to demonstrate their richer mathematical framework compared to differential equations without memory for the analysis of dynamical systems. The book also provides interesting applications of delay differential equations in infectious diseases, including COVID-19. It will be valuable to mathematicians and specialists associated with mathematical biology, mathematical modelling, life sciences, immunology and infectious diseases.

Control Theory and Systems Biology

Control Theory and Systems Biology
Author: Pablo A. Iglesias
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2010
Genre: Biological control systems
ISBN: 0262013347

A survey of how engineering techniques from control and systems theory can be used to help biologists understand the behavior of cellular systems.

Optimal Linear Controller Design for Periodic Inputs

Optimal Linear Controller Design for Periodic Inputs
Author: Goele Pipeleers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2009-11-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1848829744

Optimal Linear Controller Design for Periodic Inputs proposes a general design methodology for linear controllers facing periodic inputs which applies to all feedforward control, estimated disturbance feedback control, repetitive control and feedback control. The design methodology proposed is able to reproduce and outperform the major current design approaches, where this superior performance stems from the following properties: uncertainty on the input period is explicitly accounted for, periodic performance being traded-off against conflicting design objectives and controller design being translated into a convex optimization problem, guaranteeing the efficient computation of its global optimum. The potential of the design methodology is illustrated by both numerical and experimental results.

Computational Methods in Systems Biology

Computational Methods in Systems Biology
Author: David Gilbert
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2012-09-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642336361

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2012, held in London, UK, during October 3-5, 2012. The 17 revised full papers and 8 flash posters presented together with the summaries of 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers cover the analysis of biological systems, networks, and data ranging from intercellular to multiscale. Topics included high-performance computing, and for the first time papers on synthetic biology.

Adaptive Backstepping Control of Uncertain Systems

Adaptive Backstepping Control of Uncertain Systems
Author: Jing Zhou
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2008-02-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540778063

This book employs the powerful and popular adaptive backstepping control technology to design controllers for dynamic uncertain systems with non-smooth nonlinearities. Various cases including systems with time-varying parameters, multi-inputs and multi-outputs, backlash, dead-zone, hysteresis and saturation are considered in design and analysis. For multi-inputs and multi-outputs systems, both centralized and decentralized controls are addressed. This book not only presents recent research results including theoretical success and practical development such as the proof of system stability and the improvement of system tracking and transient performance, but also gives self-contained coverage of fundamentals on the backstepping approach illustrated with simple examples. Detail description of methodologies for the construction of adaptive laws, feedback control laws and associated Lyapunov functions is systematically provided in each case. Approaches used for the analysis of system stability and tracking and transient performances are elaborated. Two case studies are presented to show how the presented theories are applied.

Computational Methods in Systems Biology

Computational Methods in Systems Biology
Author: Alessandro Abate
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 303060327X

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2020, held in Konstanz, Germany, in September 2020.* The 17 full papers and 5 tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. In addition 3 abstracts of invited talks and 2 tutorials have been included in this volume. Topics of interest include formalisms for modeling biological processes; models and their biological applications; frameworks for model verification, validation, analysis, and simulation of biological systems; high-performance computational systems biology and parallel implementations; model inference from experimental data; model integration from biological databases; multi-scale modeling and analysis methods; computational approaches for synthetic biology; and case studies in systems and synthetic biology. * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Closed-Loop Control of Blood Glucose

Closed-Loop Control of Blood Glucose
Author: Frederick Chee
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3540740309

This book presents closed-loop blood glucose control in a simple manner, which includes the hardware and "software" components that make up the control system. It provides examples on how mathematical models are formulated as well as the control algorithms that stem from mathematical exercises. The book also describes the basic physiology of blood glucose regulation during fasting and meal from a functional level.

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
Author: Lalo Magni
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2009-05-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642010938

Over the past few years significant progress has been achieved in the field of nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC), also referred to as receding horizon control or moving horizon control. More than 250 papers have been published in 2006 in ISI Journals. With this book we want to bring together the contributions of a diverse group of internationally well recognized researchers and industrial practitioners, to critically assess the current status of the NMPC field and to discuss future directions and needs. The book consists of selected papers presented at the International Workshop on Assessment an Future Directions of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control that took place from September 5 to 9, 2008, in Pavia, Italy.

Mathematical Methods for Robust and Nonlinear Control

Mathematical Methods for Robust and Nonlinear Control
Author: Matthew C. Turner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2007-10-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1848000251

The underlying theory on which much modern robust and nonlinear control is based can be difficult to grasp. This volume is a collection of lecture notes presented by experts in advanced control engineering. The book is designed to provide a better grounding in the theory underlying several important areas of control. It is hoped the book will help the reader to apply otherwise abstruse ideas of nonlinear control in a variety of real systems.