Authors:Kenneth L. Bowers, John Lund,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Keywords: control, theory, systems, volume, computation, progress
Number of Pages: 369
Published: 1991-09-17
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 0817636110
ISBN-13: 9780817636111
Author: Frederick A. Hesketh
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Keywords: control, gain, mind, struggle, describes, cancer, victim
Number of Pages: 151
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 156072272X
ISBN-13: 9781560722724
A successful engineer who was happily married to a cancer survivor, Frederick Hesketh seemed to have everything. But his world was smashed upon his receiving a diagnosis of cancer. This book, however, is not about shattered nests, shattered dreams and disease; its topics are life, faith, and hope. The book describes a patient’s battle to gain control of his life, mind, and body and to cope with the demands of being a patient while trying to apply an engineer’s logic to this unimaginable situation. The story is of a husband and wife and their five children (plus grandchildren) wh
Author: Krzysztof R. Kozlowski
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: control, information, sciences, notes, lecture, motion, robot
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 2009-11-13
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 1848829841
ISBN-13: 9781848829848
Robot Motion Control 2009 presents very recent results in robot motion and control. Forty short papers have been chosen from those presented at the sixth International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control held in Poland in June 2009. The authors of these papers have been carefully selected and represent leading institutions in this field. The following recent developments are discussed: • Design of trajectory planning schemes for holonomic and nonholonomic systems with optimization of energy, torque limitations and other factors. • New control algorithms for industrial robots, nonholon
Authors:Sunan Huang, Kok Kiong Tan, Tong Heng Lee,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: control, industrial, advances, applied, predictive
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2001-12-18
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1852333383
ISBN-13: 9781852333386
Focuses on the fundamentals and some state of the art developments in the field of predictive control. Addresses application issues in predictive control, and a form of predictive control based on Finite Spectrum Assignment. Softcover.
Authors:Fritz Colonius, Wolfgang Kliemann, L. Grüne,
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Keywords: amp, control, foundations, applications, systems, dynamics
Number of Pages: 629
Published: 2000-04-20
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0817636838
ISBN-13: 9780817636838
"The Dynamics of Control" provides a carefully integrated development of the mathematical connections between nonlinear control, dynamical systems and time-varying perturbed systems for scientists and engineers. The central theme is the notion of control flow with its global dynamics and linearization presented in detail. The book’s scope is comprehensive and includes global theory of dynamical systems under time-varying perturbations, global and local dynamics of control systems, connections between control systems and dynamical systems and the relevant numerical methods for global dyn
Author: Robert Simons
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: control, strategic, renewal, drive, innovative, managers, levers, systems
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1994-11-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0875845592
ISBN-13: 9780875845593
Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic control systems, Simons identifies three new control systems that allow strategic change: belief systems that communicate core values and provide inspiration and direction, boundary systems that frame the strategic domain and define the limits of freedom, and interactive systems that provide flexibility in adapting to competitive
Authors:Sergio Bittanti, Patrizio Colaneri,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: control, communications, engineering, filtering, systems, periodic
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2008-11-17
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 1848009100
ISBN-13: 9781848009103
The advantages of periodic control have been known since humanity learned to cultivate crops in rotation to increase production. In more recent times, it has been recognized that some industrial and technological systems also work or function better in a periodic fashion. Moreover, with periodic control laws it has been possible to solve problems for which no time-invariant solution exists. Periodic models are also able to describe the intrinsic periodicity in many natural phenomena and time series. Periodic Systems gives a comprehensive treatment of the theory of time-varying dynamical system
