Advances in Control Theory and Applications

Manuel Béjar, Anibal Ollero, Federico Cuesta (auth.), Claudio Bonivento, Lorenzo Marconi, Carlo Rossi, Alberto Isidori (eds.)3-540-70700-X, 978-3-540-70700-4

This volume is the outcome of the first CASY workshop on “Advances in Control Theory and Applications” which was held at University of Bologna on May 22-26, 2006. It consists of selected contributions by some of the invited speakers and contains recent results in control.

The volume is intended for engineers, researchers, and students in control engineering.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-X
Modeling and Control of Autonomous Helicopters….Pages 1-29
Efficient Quantization in the Average Consensus Problem….Pages 31-49
Human-Robot Interaction Control Using Force and Vision….Pages 51-70
A Dissipation Inequality for the Minimum Phase Property of Nonlinear Control Systems….Pages 71-83
Input Disturbance Suppression for Port-Hamiltonian Systems: An Internal Model Approach….Pages 85-98
A Systems Theory View of Petri Nets….Pages 99-127
Wireless Sensing with Power Constraints….Pages 129-160
The Important State Coordinates of a Nonlinear System….Pages 161-170
On Decentralized and Distributed Control of Partially-Observed Discrete Event Systems….Pages 171-184
A Unifying Approach to the Design of Nonlinear Output Regulators….Pages 185-200
Controller Design Through Random Sampling: An Example….Pages 201-212
Digital Control of High Performance Power Supplies for a Synchrotron Light Source….Pages 213-237
Distributed PCHD-Systems, from the Lumped to the Distributed Parameter Case….Pages 239-255
Observability and the Design of Fault Tolerant Estimation Using Structural Analysis….Pages 257-278
Robust Hybrid Control Systems: An Overview of Some Recent Results….Pages 279-302
Back Matter….Pages 303-310