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The main objectives of this book are a) to provide a refe-rence book for teaching graduate and undergraduate studentsin control systems, distributedAI, computer integrated ma-nufacturing, AI in engineering applications and computerscience, b) to help professional research staff to trace theup-to-date technology developed in above areas;

The book is concerned with the problems of dynamic systemscontrol in conditions of uncertainty caused by the lack ofadequate a priori data on control objects' properties. The appearance offurther unimprovable estimates causes the necessity to refu-se the use of adaptive control and to turn to the robustcontrol.

The workshop on Control Mechanics, originated in 1988, beca-me an annual event and gained considerable recognition inadvancing control of nonlinear and uncertain mechanical sy-tems and promoting application of advanced mechanics in con-trol.

The main concern of this book is the application of infinitemoment theory to the problem of controllability of one-di-mensional vibrating systems (like strings and beams) andheating processes.

The working conference dealt with recent developments in thefield of modelling and optimization and with knowledge baseddecision support systems.

The main topics for discussion at the confe-rence were: non-linear SPDE's and Markov property for randomfields, modern stochastic calculuses, numerical and asympto-tic methods for SPDE's, applications of SPDE's with emphasisonnon-linear filtering, stochastic control and statisticalfluid dynamics.

This volume contains papers presented during a four-dayWorkshop that took place at Rutgers University from 29 Aprilto 2 May, 1991.

Block pulse functions have been studied and appliedextensively in the past fifteen years as a basic set offunctions for signal characterizations in systems scienceand control.

The aim of this workshop was to provide an opportunity forthe discussion ofthe latest development of research and theexchange of opinions on robust control including H -control,parametric/structured approach to robust control, robustadaptive control, sampled-data control systems, and theirapplications.

This research monograph gives a complete discussion of the theory of the discrete-time hyperbolic map. A discussion of the linear quadratic regulator with negative state weighting provides some important insights into the general regulator theory.

This book describes methods used to analyze and understand vehicle behavior, to help the driver to avoid lane departures, rollover or jackknifing risks, to improve passenger comfort through suspension control and to estimate a safety speed and trajectory.

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.

In this monograph, new structures of neural networks in multidimensional domains are introduced. The manuscript is intended as a research report, but a great effort has been performed to make the subject comprehensible to graduate students in computer engineering, control engineering, computer sciences and related disciplines.

This book constitutes the presentations made at the Advanced Research Workshop on Autonomous Robotic Systems, which was held at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, June 1997. Topics include sensors and navigation in mobile robots, robot co-operation, telerobotics, legged robots, climbing robots and applications.

This book gives a unified and unique presentation of low gain and high gain design methodologies. Compared to that of high gain feedback, the power and significance of low gain feedback is not as widely recognized.

This monograph is concerned with the development and implementation of nonlinear mathematical techniques for feedback control and shape design of robot manipulators whose links have considerable structural flexibility.

Control of nonlinear systems, one of the most active research areas in control theory, has always been a domain of natural convergence of research interests in applied mathematics and control engineering.

This class of systems includes various interconnections of linear dynamic blocks and static nonlinear elements, e.g., Hammerstein system, Wiener system, Wiener-Hammerstein ("sandwich") system and additive NARMAX systems with feedback.