This text is borne of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. It gives a comprehensive overview of visual servoing in robotics and provides solutions to specific problems regarding camera-derived feedback to control robotic motion.
This book collects papers presented in the 2011 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. The book presents the state of the art in UAS, as well as current developments and applications, benefiting engineers, practitioners, researchers and others.
The Microchip PIC family of microcontrollers is the most popular series of microcontrollers in the world. However, no microcontroller is of any use without software to make it perform useful functions. This reference focuses on designing with Microchip's mid-range PIC line using MBASIC, a powerful but easy to learn programming language.
Separated into modules, this text teaches control system design using H-infinity techniques. The authors begin by teaching how to formulate control system design problems as mathematical optimization problems and then discuss the theory and numerics for these optimization problems.
Offers an introduction to the mathematics needed to model, analyze, and design feedback systems. This book covers the mathematics needed to model, analyze, and design feedback systems. It is suitable as an introductory textbook for students and a self-contained resource for researchers.
Covers all aspects of finite transition systems, which enable the modelling of systems of concurrent processes and also provide the basis for verification and notions of equivalence. This text deals with both the semantics of systems describable as transition systems and their logics.
Totally Integrated Automation is the concept by means of which SIMATIC controls machines, manufacturing systems and technical processes. Taking the example of the SIMATIC S7 programmable controller, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the architecture and operation of a state-of-the-art automation system.
The use of control and control systems are an essential part of functioning integrated systems. Feedback Control Systems for Micro- and Nano-Scales shows how feedback control in nanotechnology instrumentation can yield results better than passive systems can.
* Introduction to engineering with STEP 7 Professional V11 inside TIA Portal based on actual SIMATIC S7-300 components * The SIMATIC S7-300 automation system will be used in thousands of applications all over the world* The new TIA Portal is by far the most intuitive, efficient, and proven engineering framework.
Model-Based Control of Unmanned Rotorcraft provides a comprehensive study of modeling and control of small unmanned rotorcraft (helicopters), and explores the technical challenges involved. The text also serves as a step-by-step reference on the modeling and control of small, unmanned helicopters.
This text focuses on key aspects of this field, including the stability analysis, stabilization, control design, and filtering of various time-delay systems. And it presents the material through the free-weighting matrix approach and uses various examples.
Totally Integrated Automation is the concept by means of which SIMATIC controls machines, manufacturing systems and technical processes. Taking the example of the S7-300/400 programmable controller, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the architecture and operation of this automation system.
Written from a practical engineering perspective, this book traces the core concepts of sliding mode control: classical sliding mode controllers; continous and discrete time sliding modes; fuzzy sliding mode control; neural sliding mode control and much more.
This handbook introduces 40 major mobility models, with numerous associate mobility models to be used in MANET networking environments in the ground, air, space and underwater mobile vehicles and handheld devices. Includes case studies, examples and exercises.
This interdisciplinary book defines reachability in the stochastic framework, covering such concepts as stochastic reachability based on Markov process theory; martingale methods; stochastic reachability as an optimal stopping problem and dynamic programming.
Here is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to nonlinear control systems, including system analysis and major control design techniques. The book is self-contained, offering mathematical foundations for understanding the contents of each chapter.
This book examines differences in two main brake system technologies: hydraulically activated and electromechanical brakes. It offers the reader a structured and detailed treatment of the uses of control in various aspects of modern automotive braking systems.
* Automatic Control Systems provides engineers with a fresh new controls book that places special emphasis on mechatronics. It follows a revolutionary approach by actually including a physical lab. * Readers will find authoritative coverage of modern design tools and examples.
Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time provides a unified and coherent review of the various approaches devised for the control of integral processes. Topics include PID controller assessments, two-degree-of-freedom control scheme design, Smith predictor control scheme modifications, and more.
Getting Started with the Arduino Mega ADK is a thorough overview of what is capable with the official Arduino ADK board. It starts with a very brief explanation of what Arduino and Android are in case the reader is picking this subject up for the first time.
Petri Nets were introduced and successfully used to analyze and model discrete event systems especially in engineering and computer sciences such as in automatic control. This monograph presents an introduction in the standard methods of Petri Nets with the aim to reach an accurate understanding of continuous and hybrid Petri Nets.
A SCADA system gathers information, transfers the information back to a central site, displaying the information in a logical and organized fashion. This work provides an introduction to Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and their application in monitoring and controlling equipment and industrial plant.
Based on the many approaches available for dealing with large-scale systems (LSS), this book provides a rigorous framework for studying the analysis, stability, and control problems of LSS while addressing the dominating sources of difficulties due to dimensionality, information structure constraints, uncertainties, and time delays.
Offers an introduction to theoretical and practical aspects of most commonly used MPC strategies. This book intends to bridge the gap between the powerful but often abstract techniques of control researchers and the more empirical approach of practitioners. It features material on general MPC elements and algorithms, and commercial MPC schemes.
This book presents novel analytical and computational methods for addressing system identification, model reduction, performance analysis and feedback control design and addresses theoretical developments, computational approaches and real-world applications.
Statistical Process Control is a tool that measures and achieves quality control, providing managers from a wide range of industries with the ability to take appropriate actions for business success. This title is suitable for scientists, technologists and those wishing to understand or implement modern statistical process control techniques.
Presents topical data on microfluidics such as the application of microfluidic principles for the creation of tandem capillary electrophoresis chip devices with electrochemiluminscent detection techniques; microbiochips monolithically integrated with microfluidics; and, analysis of the electroosmotic flow of power-law fluids in a slit channel.
A unique approach to sensorless control and regulator design of electric drives Based on the author's vast industry experience and collaborative works with other industries, Control of Electric Machine Drive Systems is packed with tested, implemented, and verified ideas that engineers can apply to everyday problems in the field.
Presents a graded course based around the practical use of the PIC microcontroller through project work. This work introduces applications using the popular 16F84 device as well as the 16F627, 16F877, 12C508, 12C629 and 12C675. It also covers the 16F818, with additional information on writing and documenting software.
Fractional-order Systems and Controls provides a basic understanding of FOC concepts and methods. Readers will learn the broad range of uses of FOC in control systems through a variety of real-world problems in fields like mechatronics, civil engineering and biological systems.
The PIC is one of the leading microcontrollers for professional applications, but also the first choice for experimenters and students. This book helps you build your own tried and test projects. It presents 10 projects with the introductory material that you need to get up and running.
This book connects the theory of vibrations with the more general theory of systems. The author uses a rigorous approach to the teaching of vibration and mechanical-system analysis, and includes well-known graphical techniques for solving engineering problems.
Providing comprehensive coverage of the field of mechatronics, this book is useful for mechanical, electrical and aerospace engineering majors. It presents a review of electrical circuits, solid-state devices, digital circuits, and motors. It also includes many illustrations, examples, class discussion items, and chapter questions and exercises.
Provides an introduction to microprocessor systems and applications covering the basic principles of microelectronics. This work uses Windows development software MPLAB, to introduce microelectronic systems through the PIC devices. It focuses on the 16F84 as the starting point for introducing the basic architecture of the PIC.
A work on a hot topic in the field of control of nonlinear systems that ranges from mathematical system theory to practical industrial control applications. It addresses two fundamental questions in Systems and Control: how to plan the motion of a system and track the corresponding trajectory in presence of perturbations.
Model Predictive Control (MPC) is unusual in receiving on-going interest in both industrial and academic circles. This title proposes methods for design and implementation of MPC systems using basis functions that confer the advantages, including continuous- and discrete-time MPC problems solved in similar design frameworks.
Many processes and systems require sophisticated integration of mechanical and electronic components with information processing capacity. The development of such mechatronic systems opens the way to many innovative solutions. This book introduces such developments by considering the dynamic modelling of components together with its interactions.
Cooperative, collaborating autonomous systems are at the forefront of research efforts in numerous disciplines across the applied sciences. This work presents research, which is suitable for faculty, graduate students, and industrial researchers in the fields of optimization, control theory, electrical engineering, computer science, and robotics.
Focuses on mathematical analysis and rigorous design methods for fuzzy control systems based on Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models, sometimes called Takagi-Sugeno-Kang models. This title presents a rather general analytical theory of exact fuzzy modeling and control of continuous and discrete-time dynamical systems.
Focuses on the efficient and systematic computation of closed-form optimal controllers for the powerful class of fast-sampled constrained piecewise affine systems. This book provides a look at the computational and control theoretic properties of the controllers. It presents different analysis and post-processing techniques.
This new, updated edition reflects major changes that have occurred in the field in recent years and presents, in a clear and direct way, the fundamentals of optimal control theory. It covers the major topics involving measurement, principles of optimality, dynamic programming, variational methods, Kalman filtering, and other solution techniques.
Incorporating a number of illustrations, this book focuses on distributed-parameter systems, the dynamics of which can be modelled with partial differential equations. Application examples cover fields ranging from environmental science to national security.
Focusing on feedforward control techniques, this book covers the various algorithms for attenuating residual oscillations that are excited by reference inputs to dynamical systems. It provides a presentation of the theory and numerical techniques used to shape control system inputs for achieving precise control when modeling uncertainties exist.
Compiles contributions on analytical and computational methods for addressing model reduction, performance analysis and feedback control design for such systems. This title is suitable for engineers and researchers working in the fields of control and dynamic systems.
A collection of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). This book is aimed at professionals working on the control and robotics area, especially those who need to maintain knowledge about trends in development methods and applications.
This book reviews PID controller theory, design and realization, covering new approaches to controller tuning; configurations for more efficient control and such non-standard approaches as fractional-order, event-based, nonlinear and predictive control.
Aimed at engineers and technicians who need to have a practical understanding of the essentials of process control, loop tuning and how to optimize the operation of their particular plant or process. This book also enables the reader to identify and apply the essential building blocks in automatic control.
Introducing passivity as a design tool for multi-agent systems, this book provides a unified framework for multi-agent coordination problems and discusses numerous related factors such as formation control, attitude coordination, and synchronization.
Provides your students with coverage of industrial maintenance and control, from servomechanisms to instrumentation. This title discusses about components, circuits, instruments, control techniques, calibration, tuning and programming associated with industrial automated systems.
Presents the nuts and bolts for designing a successful controller. This book discusses the theory required to support the art of designing a working controller as well as the various aspects to convince a client, employer, or examiner of your expertise.
This book describes the new framework of SDC system design and provides a comprehensive description of the modelling of controller design tools and their real-time implementation. The reader will learn how to expand their use of stochastic control methods.
Highly regarded for its accessible writing and practical case studies, Control Systems Engineering is the most widely adopted textbook for this core course in Mechanical and Electrical engineering programs. This new sixth edition has been revised and updated with 20% new problems and greater emphasis on computer-aided design.
Presents a comprehensive insight into the intelligence and dexterity of robotic multi-fingered hands from the physical and control - theoretic viewpoints. This book focuses on the problem of how to control dexterous movements of fingers interacting with an object in the execution of everyday tasks.
Take control of your home! Conveniently and inexpensively automate home appliances and lighting from your smartphone. Learn about various emerging automation technologies, such as Android and Arduino, and how you can create applications that leverage ideas from these exciting new platforms.
This text describes how to control variables of physical dynamic systems - as level, temperature, pressure, speed, and position - using the PID (Proportional, Integral, Derivative) controller. This controller is without doubt the most important and most frequently used controller used in practical industrial applications.
Focuses on the design and analysis of nonlinear control systems. This book covers such topics as: local and global decompositions of control systems; input-output maps and realization theory; nonlinear feedback for single-input/single-output systems and multi-input/multi-output systems; applications of state feedback; and, output regulation.
Focuses on model identification oriented to the analytical approach of fault diagnosis and identification covering: choice of model structure; parameter identification; residual generation; and fault diagnosis and isolation. This book also includes sample case studies that are used to demonstrate the application of these techniques.
Since antiquity, humanity has used engineering techniques to manage the transport and distribution of its most important resource - fresh water. Population growth and climate change are making the good management of water resources essential. This book focuses on advanced methods for the control of water flow in open-channel systems.
This is a clear, comprehensive introduction to the new standard IEC 61131 for programming industrial control systems. Includes easy-to-follow examples, illustrations and summary tables, plus a purchaser's guide and CD-ROMs with functional programming systems.
This volume provides a systematic introduction to the research on spherical actuators. It broadens the scope of actuators from conventional single- to multi-axes, which allows beginners and researchers alike to enhance their knowledge on electromagnetic actuators.
Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition of Adaptive Control covers new developments in the field, including multi-model adaptive control with switching, direct and indirect adaptive regulation, and adaptive feedforward disturbance compensation.
Nonlinear Powerflow Control Design presents an innovative control system design process. The text compares the value of different energy resources, presents a new tool for power flow control, and examines the human factors involved with selling power into a distributed, decentralized electric power grid.
A systematic and comprehensive course on predictive control - an indispensable part of industrial control engineering - this text contains mini-tutorials on specialist topics that make it suitable for self-study. It provides worked examples and problems in each chapter.
The monitoring and control of a system whose behaviour is highly uncertain is an important and challenging practical problem. Methods of solution based on fuzzy techniques have generated considerable interest, but very little of the existing literature considers explicit ways of taking uncertainties into account.
Presents the principles of programmable logic controllers (PLC) while not tying itself to one vendor or another. This book highlights ladder programming throughout with coverage of design characteristics, development of functional blocks, instruction lists, and structured text. It also discusses methods for fault diagnosis, testing and debugging.
Focuses on programmable automation technologies used in industry. This book provides a foundation of analytical techniques to justify automation and the knowledge and instruction of how to program computer numerical controlled (CNC) equipment, industrial robots and programmable logic controllers (PLC).
Bridging theory and practice, this book offers model based control design techniques and methods for verifying design robustness. Emphasizes sound design practices and systematic software development processes according to the generic standard IEC61508.
A major problem in control engineering is robust feedback design that stabilizes a nominal plant while also attenuating the influence of parameter variations and external disturbances. This monograph addresses this problem with special attention to electromechanical systems with hard-to-model nonsmooth phenomena such as friction and backlash.
Provides coverage of linear, bilinear, and nonlinear optimal control algorithms for both continuous-time and discrete-time weakly coupled systems. This book presents numerous applications to real world systems from various industries, including aerospace, and discusses the design of subsystem-level optimal filters.
The definitive advanced textbook in its field, Computer Relaying for Power Systems provides the latest developments in technology and applications, including signal processing, new GPS-based measurement techniques, and the application of artificial intelligence to digital relays.
This book provides the reader with a treatment of the fundamental aspects of algorithm and application development for video-based tracking. It describes the state-of-the-art algorithms in feature extraction, object detection, object tracking, and their performance evaluation.
This book offers a general method of Lyapunov functional construction which lets researchers analyze the degree to which the stability properties of differential equations are preserved in their difference analogues. Includes examples from physical systems.
Intelligent control is a complex and challenging field of increasing practical importance. This title offers a fresh and pragmatic approach to the understanding of this subject. It exploits the suite of tools provided by LabVIEW', showing the student how to design, develop, analyze, and visualize intelligent control algorithms quickly and simply.
Covering the latest advances in intelligent control and computer engineering, the 25 revised and extended papers in this volume are an excellent reference point for researchers and graduate students working on intelligent control and computer engineering.
Presents the material necessary for an understanding of servo control in automation. This book offers a discussion of the major components of servo control: sensors, controllers and actuators. It is suitable for engineers and researchers interested in the applications of sensors, actuators and control systems in the automated environment.
With the aim of facilitating signal processing in manufacturing, this book presents a systematic description of the fundamentals on wavelet transform and the ways of applying it to the condition monitoring and health diagnosis of rotating machine components.
Describes nonlinear control design solutions for problems that arise from robots required to interact with and manipulate their environments. Providing a historical perspective of robotics and a review of standard robot control approaches, this book presents real-time computing and experimental test beds for implementing developed controllers.
In this book, leading experts in power, control and communication systems discuss the most promising recent research in smart grid modeling, control and optimization. The book goes on to the foundation for future advances in this critical field of study.
Sliding Mode Control (SMC) is a universal design tool for the robust control of linear and nonlinear systems. This book explains the conventional SMC methodology while examining different design principles. It also includes chapters on automotive applications, chattering suppression, and control of power converters.
Based on a series of three workshops of a Bernoulli program entitled "Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals and Systems, with Physical Modeling, this volume provides researchers, engineers and graduate students with an unprecedented collection of topics and internationally acknowledged works.
Considering the theoretical and practical sides of application and design, this book distills practical knowledge from various branches of applied science - electrical engineering, analog electronics, mechanical engineering, mechanics, control theory, digital electronics, embedded computing, and firmware design into a cohesive framework.
Tracking extremes in a performance function such as output or cost, extremum-seeking control tries to optimize a system as it operates, thereby reducing downtime and the need for system analysis. This publication covers several practical applications.
Tandem Cold Metal Rolling Mill Control explores an advanced method for control of tandem cold metal rolling processes, based on the emerging state-dependent Riccati equation technique. After a short history of tandem cold rolling, various types of cold rolling processes are described.
This book describes the architecture, operating principles and programming details in high level language of embedded microcontrollers. It provides many design examples of interfacing the microcontroller for students' projects and includes practical tips.
Using real-life examples to illustrate the performance of learning algorithms and instructing readers how to apply them to practical applications, this work offers a comprehensive treatment of subspace learning algorithms for neural networks. It summarizes a decade of high quality research offering a host of practical applications.
PIC Microcontrollers are a favorite in industry and with hobbyists. Featuring Microchip's C18 student compiler and using the C language, this book covers the PIC 18 and SD cards, knowledge which can be harnessed for hands-on work with the eighteen projects included within.
Mechatronics is a core subject for engineers, combining elements of mechanical and electronic engineering into the development of computer-controlled mechanical devices such as DVD players or anti-lock braking systems. This book offers integrated coverage in the field with practical examples, case studies and exercises and an Instructor's Manual.
Contains the complete PDF versions of: "The PIC Microcontroller: Your Personal Introductory Course, 3e"; "Interfacing PIC Microcontrollers"; "PIC Basic Projects"; "PIC in Practice, 2e"; "Programming the PIC Microcontroller with MBASIC"; "PIC Microcontrollers, 2e"; and, Programming PIC Microcontrollers with PICBASIC.
The MSP430 is a simple 16-bit microcontroller with a compact and economical CPU containing only 27 instructions and 16 registers. This work offers advantages which make it suitable for low power applications: a variety of peripherals for analog input and output; rapid processing wake up time; and the treatment of data and address on equal footing.
This book gathers 25 articles by participants in the Advances in Intelligent Control and Innovative Computing conference (held at IMECS March, 2011). Covers AI, control engineering, decision support systems, modeling and simulation and industrial applications.
Create your own toys, remote controllers, alarms, detectors, robots, and many other projects with the Arduino device. This simple microcontroller board lets artists and designers build a variety of amazing objects and prototypes that interact with the physical world.
This book illustrates how mechatronics can make products and systems more flexible, more responsive and possessed of higher levels of functionality than would otherwise be possible. The book's case-study approach is an effective way of illustrating this.
New technologies and standards are emerging which will have a dramatic effect on the design and implementation of future industrial control systems. The new IEC 61499 standard has been developed to model distributed control systems, defining concepts and models.
This book contains a great deal of practical information for drives and industrial engineers who use motors and drives. It is a comprehensive guide to the technology underlying drives and motors. It contains sufficient theory to give both user and student an insight into the design of these components the constraints and opportunities.
Using flush air data sensing (FADS), this volume focuses on both fault detection and isolation (FDI), and flight data estimation. As such, the text provides an introduction to FDI and FADS systems, a survey of the literature, and a case study for UAV applications.
Gives an introduction into advanced methods of fault detection and diagnosis (FDD). This book treats fault-detection methods for single signals without models like limit and trend checking and with harmonic and stochastic models, like Fourier analysis, correlation and wavelets.