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    Books on Engineering, Energy and Technology - Control Systems Books

    Books about Control Systems (Engineering, Energy and Technology): Browse our selection of control systems books and buy control systems books online now...

    Systems & Control Encyclopedia - book by Singh, M.G.

    DESCRIPTION: Containing 1621 specially commissioned articles, this unique and comprehensive new reference work provides information on what systems thinking comprises and how it is being used to understand and to attack a wide spectrum of diverse problems ranging from, for example, the control of se... view more info and the price of this book.

    Applied Industrial Control - book by Singh, M.G.;Elloy, J-P.;Mezencev, R.;Munro, N.

    DESCRIPTION: This book is much more than a standard control text and aims to provide a bridge between the theory taught in academic institutions and the pragmatic practice of industrial control. Currently the microprocessor revolution is having a major impact on automatic control and instrumentation... view more info and the price of this book.

    Concise Encyclopedia of Modelling & Simulation - book by Atherton, D.P.;Borne, P.

    DESCRIPTION: The Concise Encyclopedia of Modelling & Simulation contains 172 alphabetically arranged articles describing the modelling and simulation of physical systems. The emphasis is on mathematical models and their various forms, although other types of models, such as knowledge-based, ling... view more info and the price of this book.

    Concise Encyclopedia of Traffic & Transportation Systems - book by Papageorgiou, M.

    DESCRIPTION: The vast expansion of transportation systems on land, sea and in the air throughout the twentieth century has allowed for the development of economic, social and political connections across the globe undreamed of by our ancestors. However, this expansion has brought with it familiar pr... view more info and the price of this book.

    Concise Encyclopedia of Measurement & Instrumentation - book by Finkelstein, L.;Grattan, K.T.V.

    DESCRIPTION: Based on the foundation provided by the highly acclaimed Systems & Control Encyclopedia, this book presents in a single volume new material concerning the current state of measurement and instrumentation. It does not simply provide a catalogue of transducer devices and related syste... view more info and the price of this book.

    Production Control in the Process Industry - book by O'shima, E.;van Rijn, C.F.H.

    DESCRIPTION: The papers within this volume reflect the multidisciplinary approach taken by the workshop to the development and improvement of existing production control theories and practices as applied to the process industry. Subjects covered include production planning, quality control and assur... view more info and the price of this book.

    Distributed Computer Control Systems 1988 - book by Rodd, M.G.;d'Epinay Lalive, Th.

    DESCRIPTION: Continuing the forward thinking of previously held distributed computer control systems meetings, this volume discusses both the positive and negative views on trends in OSI-based communications; the development of the fieldbus; the importance of the incorporation into basic real time o... view more info and the price of this book.

    Energy Systems, Management and Economics - book by Nishikawa, Y.;Kaya, Y.;Yamaji, K.

    DESCRIPTION: As the difficulties increase for the production of energy by safe, economic and environmental means, the necessity for systems to deal with these problems becomes essential. The symposium presented and discussed the state of the art in the development of the required energy systems, wit... view more info and the price of this book.

    Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems 1997 (including Biological Systems) - book by Linkens, D.A.;Carson, E.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume contains the 90 papers presented at the 3rd IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems held in Warwick, UK from 23-26 March 1997. Significant work in the field of biomedical systems analysis and design is taking place throughout the world and the opportuni... view more info and the price of this book.

    Concurrent Engineering - book by Gu, P.;Kusiak, A.

    DESCRIPTION: Increasing global competition in a product-oriented industry has required manufacturing enterprises to continuously improve product quality, functionality, and features, as well as implementing a reduction in product cost and time to market. The traditional approach to product developme... view more info and the price of this book.

    Advanced Fuzzy-Neural Control 2001 - book by Albertos, P.;Sala, A.

    DESCRIPTION: This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the first IFAC Workshop on Advanced Fuzzy-Neural Control, held at Valencia, Spain, on 15-16 October 2001. This is the first IFAC technical meeting specifically devoted to fuzzy and neural control. The use of artificial intelligence tec... view more info and the price of this book.

    Cost Oriented Automation (Low Cost Automation 2001) - book by Bernhardt, R.;Erbe, H.-H

    DESCRIPTION: The Proceedings contains the papers presented at the IFAC Symposium on Cost-Oriented Automation held in Berlin, Germany from 8-9 October 2001. Cost-Oriented Automation is one of IFAC's key technical areas and this regular symposium series has an excellent reputation. This Symposium wa... view more info and the price of this book.

    Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles 2001 - book by Asama, H.;Inoue, H.

    DESCRIPTION: This proceedings volume contains the papers from the 4th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles that was held in Sapporo, Japan, in September 2001. This collection covers various aspects of intelligent autonomous vehicles such as design, planning, computational scheme, archi... view more info and the price of this book.

    Mercury Cadmium Telluride Imagers - book by Onshage, A.C.

    DESCRIPTION: In two parts, this book describes the evolution of mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe) imager structures based upon published patents and patent applications. The first part covers monolithic arrays, and the second part describes hybrid arrays. Each part has 5 chapters, with each documen... view more info and the price of this book.

    Automation and Instrumentation for Power Plants - book by Ramamoorty, M.

    DESCRIPTION: An analysis of power systems, control hardware, modelling and simulation, instrumentation, and computers and distributed systems. The stability of plants and their interaction in a multi-machine system is also discussed, as well as an analysis of the values of LOFT ATWS EVENT for PWR a... view more info and the price of this book.

    Systems & Control Encyclopedia Supplementary Volume 1 - book by Singh, M.G.

    DESCRIPTION: Under the direction of a distinguished Editorial Board, Professor Madan Singh has commissioned over 90 articles which extend, up-date and revise original material from the highly acclaimed Systems & Control Encyclopedia. Particular attention has been paid to newly emerging areas of ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems 1988 - book by Cobelli, C.;Mariani, L.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume provides a complete and up-to-date review of the recent developments and trends relating to modelling and control in biomedical systems in research, diagnosis and therapy. Focus is placed on methodological issues relevant to modelling and control as well as to the various p... view more info and the price of this book.

    Systems Analysis Applied to Management of Water Resources - book by Jellali, M.

    DESCRIPTION: Water plays a vital and strategic role in social and economic development throughout the world, and systems analysis is now a valuable tool for use in decision making with regard to the evaluation and management of water resources. However, the social and economic importance of water, a... view more info and the price of this book.

    Model Based Process Control - book by McAvoy, T.J.;Arkun, Y.;Zafiriou, E.

    DESCRIPTION: Presented at this workshop were mathematical models upon which process control is based and the practical applications of this method of control within industry; case studies include examples from the paper and pulp industry, materials industry and the chemical industry, among others. F... view more info and the price of this book.

    Trends in Control and Measurement Education - book by Linkens, D.A.;Atherton, D.P.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume is the published Proceedings of selected papers from the IFAC Symposium, Swansea, 11-13 July 1988, where a forum was provided for discussion of the latest advances and techniques in the education of control and instrument engineers. Seven major topics were covered to aid lec... view more info and the price of this book.

    Adaptive Control of Chemical Processes 1988 - book by Kummel, M.

    DESCRIPTION: These Proceedings present adaptive control, a method for controlling and regulating industrial plants, processes and systems, within the chemical industry. Containing 33 papers, direct adaptive control and the self-tuning regulating method are discussed and reviewed and practical applic... view more info and the price of this book.

    Identification and System Parameter Estimation 1988 - book by Chen, Han-Fu

    DESCRIPTION: These Proceedings present the state-of-the-art not only in identification and estimation but also in adaptive control. In addition to the traditional topics, attention has been brought to relatively new problems, for example, robustness analysis of adaptive control. The first volume con... view more info and the price of this book.

    Distributed Intelligence Systems: Methods and Applications - book by Mladenov, D.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume focuses on the recent advances in distributed intelligent control systems. Topics covered include; applications and case studies of distributed control systems, design methodologies for distributed intelligent systems and architectural considerations of computer design for t... view more info and the price of this book.

    Timing Analysis of Real-Time Software - book by Rodd, M.G.;Motus, L.

    DESCRIPTION: The authors set out to address fundamental design issues facing engineers when developing the software for real-time computer-based control systems – in which all programs must be safe, reliable, predictable and able to cope with the occurence of faults. Despite rapid progress in... view more info and the price of this book.

    Safety, Reliability and Applications of Emerging Intelligent Control Technologies - book by Ng, T.S.;Hung, Y.S.

    DESCRIPTION: Increasingly, over the last few years, intelligent controllers have been incorporated into control systems. Presently, the numbers and types of intelligent controllers that contain variations of fuzzy logic, neural network, genetic algorithms or some other forms of knowledge based reaso... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Identification II, Discrete Event Systems - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Chen, H.-F.;Wahlberg, B.;Olsder, G.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Volume J - Identification II, Discrete Event Systems. Signals and Systems 1. On the use of minimal parametrizations in multivariable ARMAX identification (R.P. Guidorzi). Robust Filtering. Ellipsoidal filtering problem for a sta... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Adaptive Control - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Chen, H.-F.;Grimble, M.J.;Ortega, R.;Ozguner, U.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Volume K - Adaptive Control. Adaptive Control Theory 1. Asymptotic behavior of a coupled dynamic system: application to adaptive controls (Hong Keum-Shik). Intelligent Adaptive Control. Neural-network-based adaptive controller f... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Systems Engineering and Management - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Johannsen, G.;Bernussou, J.;Stassen, H.K.;Gray, J.O.;Deistler, M.;Rustem, B.;Kopacek, F.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Decentralized Control. Arbitrary pole shifting via decentralized static output feedback (J. Leventides et al.). Large Scale Systems 1. A multilevel approach for the station-keeping of a phased satellite constellation (J. -L. Cal... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Chemical Process Control, Mineral, Mining, Metals - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Kummel, M.;McAvoy, T.;Niemi, A.J.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Nonlinear Chemical Process Control. Singular perturbation modeling of nonlinear processes with non-explicit time-scale separation (A. Kumar et al.). Advanced Techniques for Industrial Applications. Identification and control of ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Fault Detection, Pulp and Paper, Biotechnology - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Kummel, M.;Isermann, R.;Perrier, M.;Munack, A.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Fault Detection Methods. Observer-based fault detection and supervision in discrete process logistics (D. Franke). Fault Diagnosis Methods. Fault diagnosis using adaptive observer based techniques (H. Wang, S. Daley). Applicatio... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Power Plants and Systems, Computer Control - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Kummel, M.;Welfonder, E.;Motus, L.;MacLeod, I.;de la Puente, J.;Verbruggen, H.B.;Flemming, P.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Volume O - Power Plants and Systems, Computer Control. Power Plant Modelling and Control. A fourth order non-linear model for drum-boiler dynamics (R.D. Bell, K.J. Astrom). Modelling of Power Plant Combustion Processes. Furnace ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Aerospace, Transportation Systems - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Masten, M.;Mitchell, J.R.;Perrin, J.P.;Mohleji, S.C.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Control Aspects of Planetary Rovers. Small scale intelligence for lunar exploration (P. Klarer). Control System Design of Small Satellites. A program for the autonomous ground station control of small scientific satellites (R. H... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Automotive, Marine, Autonomous Vehicles - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Masten, M.;Kiencke, U.;Blanke, M.;Halme, A.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Volume Q - Automotive, Marine, Autonomous Vehicles. Advanced Vehicle Dynamics 1. Yaw disturbance attenuation by robust decoupling of car steering (J. Ackermann). Advanced Vehicle Dynamics 2. Driving skill from estimated curvatur... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Plenary Volume - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and papers: Plenary Volume. Plenary Papers. Tuning and adaptation (K.J. Astrom). Towards a breakthrough for plant management and control systems (I. Ido). The automated highway system program: a progress report (W.B. Stevens). Fuzzy control: issues,... view more info and the price of this book.

    Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing 1989 - book by Johnson, M.A.;Grimble, M.J.;Owens, D.H.;Durrani, T.S.

    DESCRIPTION: The Symposium covered three major areas: adaptive control, identification and signal processing. In all three, new developments were discussed covering both theoretical and applications research. Within the subject area of adaptive control the discussion centred around the challenges of... view more info and the price of this book.

    Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications 1989 - book by Reinisch, K.;Thoma, M.

    DESCRIPTION: The papers present new trends on the development of theory and applications in the field of large scale systems analysis, planning and control. The issues discussed are proving to be of great importance as systems of growing complexity are found in all fields of human activities, often ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing 1989 - book by Koppel, V.

    DESCRIPTION: Changing market conditions leading to increased competitiveness, higher quality control, reduced costs and greater capacity mean that the development and automation in mining and in mineral and metal processing is facing challenging times. The Symposium reflects the growing need amongst... view more info and the price of this book.

    Concise Encyclopedia of Biological & Biomedical Measurement Systems - book by Payne, P.A.

    DESCRIPTION: The ability to conduct measurements on living organisms and systems has developed at a momentous rate concurrent with changes in technology over recent years. Measurement plays a vital role in developing our understanding of biological processes and in furthering our ability to understa... view more info and the price of this book.

    Industrial Process Control Systems - book by Boullart, L.;Van Ravenzwaaij, E.;Jansen, J.P.

    DESCRIPTION: With the much publicized industrial disasters which have occurred recently - Chernobyl and Piper Alpha - the importance of reliability and safety within industry has come to the forefront. These Proceedings are divided into three sessions as follows: industrial process control systems f... view more info and the price of this book.

    Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Systems - book by Young, P.C.

    DESCRIPTION: The Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Systems provides a concise overview of the current state of the art in the study of environmental systems. Contains specially commissioned articles and updated and revised articles from the acclaimed Systems & Control Encyclopedia. The subje... view more info and the price of this book.

    Applied Measurements in Mineral & Metallurgical Processing - book by Sommer, G.

    DESCRIPTION: An international conference attended by scientists and engineers from six of the world's leading natural producers of minerals and metals. The emphasis is on the application of measurements including problems and their solution, within the gold, platinum and diamond producing industries... view more info and the price of this book.

    Nonlinear Control Systems Design 1989 - book by Isidori, A.

    DESCRIPTION: In the last two decades, the development of specific methodologies for the control of systems described by nonlinear mathematical models has attracted an ever increasing interest. New breakthroughs have occurred which have aided the design of nonlinear control systems. However there are... view more info and the price of this book.

    Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology 1989 - book by Puente, E.A.;Nemes, L.

    DESCRIPTION: The Symposium presented and discussed the latest research on new theories and advanced applications of automatic systems, which are developed for manufacturing technology or are applicable to advanced manufacturing systems. The topics included computer integrated manufacturing, simulati... view more info and the price of this book.

    Skill Based Automated Production - book by Kopacek, P.;Genser, R.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume will be of interest to all those who are involved in the development and integration of systems into the manufacturing and industrial process. It draws together theoretical situations as well as many practical examples of systems which are currently in use in industry, inclu... view more info and the price of this book.

    Control, Computers, Communications in Transportation - book by Perrin, J.-P.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume investigates developments and future trends in transportation research and what effects they will have on society. The coverage is broad; including road (urban and motorway), rail and air-traffic control. The sections deal with safety aspects, modelling and simulation, the u... view more info and the price of this book.

    Automatic Control in Aerospace 1989 - book by Nishimura, T.

    DESCRIPTION: The papers presented at the Symposium covered the areas in aerospace technology where automatic control plays a vital role. These included navigation and guidance, space robotics, flight management systems and satellite orbital control systems. The information provided reflects the rece... view more info and the price of this book.

    Advanced Information Processing in Automatic Control (AIPAC'89) - book by Husson, R.

    DESCRIPTION: Information Processing is a key area of research and development and the symposium presented state-of-the-art reports on some of the areas which are of relevance in automatic control: fault diagnosis and system reliability. Papers also covered the role of expert systems and other knowle... view more info and the price of this book.

    Robust Adaptive Control - book by Goodwin, G.C.

    DESCRIPTION: The workshop brought together international experts in the field of robust adaptive control to present recent developments in the area. These indicated that the theory of adaptive control is moving closer to applications and is beginning to give realistic guidelines useful in practical ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Multilingual Glossary of Automatic Control Technology - book by Prime, H.A.;Work, A.

    DESCRIPTION: This extensive work is the first dictionary in the field of automatic control to cover the technical terms of the field in these eight languages. It will certainly prove itself a valuable aid to all control engineers and systems scientists and will undoubtedly become the recognized stan... view more info and the price of this book.

    Dynamics and Control of Chemical Reactors, Distillation Columns and Batch Processes (DYCORD+'89) - book by Rijnsdorp, J.E.;Macgregor, J.F.;Tyreus, B.D.;Takamatsu, T.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume represents important developments in the control, modelling and dynamics of the three main areas of chemical engineering: chemical reactors, distillation columns and batch processes. All three topics are covered by a plenary survey paper, reflecting the diversity of informat... view more info and the price of this book.

    Decisional Structures in Automated Manufacturing - book by Villa, A.;Murari, G.

    DESCRIPTION: The Workshop brought together researchers interested in the field of production management in automated manufacturing, who provided papers from different standpoints of industrial automation, manufacturing and information technologies and system management methodologies. These contribut... view more info and the price of this book.

    Evaluation of Adaptive Control Strategies in Industrial Applications - book by Lototsky, V.A.

    DESCRIPTION: The workshop concentrated on adaptive techniques which are used for system identification and control and which have been developing during the last two decades. Papers covered three main topics: a comparative analysis of different classes of algorithms for system identification and con... view more info and the price of this book.

    Control Applications of Nonlinear Programming and Optimization 1989 - book by Siguerdidjane, H.B.;Bernhard, P.

    DESCRIPTION: These Proceedings provide valuable information on the exchange of ideas between scientists who apply nonlinear programming and optimization to real world control problems and those who develop new methods, algorithms and software. The papers deal with windshear problems, optimization of... view more info and the price of this book.

    Distributed Computer Control Systems 1989 - book by Motus, L.;Narita, S.

    DESCRIPTION: The focus of the workshop was on recent advances in the theory, applications and techniques for distributed computer control systems. Topics included: tools and methods for inner layers of DCCS; application papers presenting operational DCCS; the infiltration of true real-time or "time ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Safety and Reliability in Emerging Control Technologies - book by Hilburn, T.;Suski, G.;Zalewski, J.

    DESCRIPTION: Ever since control applications have begun to rely more on artificial rather than on human brains, employing computers in decision-making has resulted in new kinds of problems related to the safe and reliable operation of automatic equipment. The 2nd IFAC Workshop on Safety and Reliabil... view more info and the price of this book.

    Real Time Programming 1996 - book by Pereira, C.E.;Halang, W.A.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume contains the proceedings of the 21st IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Real Time Programming (WRTP'96) held in Gramado, Brazil on 4-6 November 1996. Over the years, this series of annual workshops has become an excellent forum for exchanging information on technological advances and pr... view more info and the price of this book.

    Computation in Economics, Finance and Engineering: Economic Systems 1998 - book by Holly, S.;Greenblatt, S.A.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume contains papers that were presented at the Symposium on Computation in Economics and Finance organised under the auspices of the International Federation of Automatic Control and the Society for Computational Economics. The Conference was held at Cambridge University, UK, fr... view more info and the price of this book.

    Nonlinear Control Systems Design 1998 (2 Volume Set) - book by Huijberts, H.J.C.;Nijmeijer, H.; van der Schaft, A.J.;Scherpen, J.M.A.

    DESCRIPTION: The NOLCOS '98 is the fourth edition of the IFAC Nonlinear Control Systems Design Symposium, which is organised every three years. The symposium presented the state of the art in the design of nonlinear control systems. It explored current theoretical developments as well as their lates... view more info and the price of this book.

    Linear Time Delay Systems 1998 - book by Dion, J.-M.;Dugard, L.;Fliess, M.

    DESCRIPTION: There exists today an increasing interest in the study of time delay systems because delayed systems are encountered frequently in practice and time delays are often a source of instability. The first workshop in this rapidly growing field of time delay systems was organized by the Labo... view more info and the price of this book.

    System Structure and Control 1998 (2-Volume Set) - book by Lafay, J.-F.

    DESCRIPTION: This was the fifth in the successful IFAC series of meetings entitled System, Structure and Control. Previous meetings were held in Praha (1982 and 1992), Nantes (1995) and Bucharest (1997). All the invited sessions were accepted, and the final selection led to a total of 132 papers in ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Automatic Control in Aerospace 1998 - book by Lee, J.G.

    DESCRIPTION: In the post cold war era, the role of aerospace technology has swiftly changed from military use to civilian use. The change resulted in a closer international cooperation in developing new aerospace systems, such as the Iridium project to launch a fleet of communication satellites and ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing 1998 - book by Heidepriem, J.

    DESCRIPTION: MMM'98 was a meeting of scientists and practitioners from all over the world who presented the state-of-the-art in automating the processes of the basic industries and discussed current development trends in this field. 50 full papers and 12 poster shows were presented out of 90 draft p... view more info and the price of this book.

    Low Cost Automation 1998 - book by Zhen-Yu, Chen;Tian-You, Chai

    DESCRIPTION: Different applications fields would benefit from automation if suitable control strategies and devices, without modifications of the whole system or the productive process, were to be introduced. This aim should be achieved by a low cost automation approach. The objective of this Sympos... view more info and the price of this book.

    Motion Control 1998 - book by Georges, D.;Sename, O.;Dugard, L.;Canudas de Wit, C.

    DESCRIPTION: This workshop comprised three plenary sessions, three invited sessions and fifty-six regular papers which were selected by the International Programme Committee and came from twenty-one countries. The three plenary sessions covered the following topics: Control of Self-Optimizing Exerci... view more info and the price of this book.

    Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 1998 - book by Pao, Y.H.;LeClair, S.R.

    DESCRIPTION: This symposium was the seventh in a very successful series in this field. Since the beginning of the series, there have been a number of very positive developments in the topical area of 'Intelligent Control'. In particular, the area referred to as 'situated control' has stimulated the ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Space Robotics 1998 - book by Rondeau, S.

    DESCRIPTION: This conference which was originally planned as workshop took place on October 19 to 22, 1998 in St-Hubert, Montréal. The idea of a conference devoted to Space Robotics matured when two IFAC Technical Committees, Aerospace Control and Robotics decided to co-sponsor such an event.... view more info and the price of this book.

    Control Applications in Marine Systems 1998 - book by Kijima, K.;Fossen, T.I.

    DESCRIPTION: The scope of the Workshop was Challenge to New Cyberships. When designing a marine system it is important that the cybernetic control system is seaworthy, safe, robust, intelligent and adaptive to strong sea disturbances and its changes. The Workshop was a forum for discussing the lates... view more info and the price of this book.

    Real Time Programming 1997 - book by Maranzana, M.

    DESCRIPTION: The 1997 IFAC/IFIP Workshop on Real Time Programming represents the twenty-second meeting of the Workshop since 1971. It has been sponsored by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) since 1974. This year... view more info and the price of this book.

    Distributed Databases in Real-Time Control - book by Knuth, E.;Rodd, M.G.

    DESCRIPTION: The problems surrounding the subject of distributed databases in real-time control were addressed at the workshop. The difficulties included finding new, high-level conceptual models as conventional solutions are rendered useless in distributed databases. The other problems covered incl... view more info and the price of this book.

    Identification of Linear Systems - book by Schoukens, J.;Pintelon, R.

    DESCRIPTION: This book concentrates on the problem of accurate modeling of linear systems. It presents a thorough description of a method of modeling a linear dynamic invariant system by its transfer function. The first two chapters provide a general introduction and review for those readers who are... view more info and the price of this book.

    Intelligent Tuning and Adaptive Control - book by Devanathan, R.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume contains 67 papers reporting on the state-of-the-art research in the fields of adaptive control and intelligent tuning. Papers include applications in robotics, the processing industries and machine control.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Section headings and selected papers. Plenary ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Systems & Control Encyclopedia Supplementary Volume 2 - book by Singh, M.G.

    DESCRIPTION: Containing 71 articles, Supplementary Volume 2, provides an up-to-date review of recent developments in the field of systems and control. New developments covered include: 'fuzzy logic control', 'neural nets in control systems' and 'robust stability and robust stable control'. Supplemen... view more info and the price of this book.

    Computer Aided Design in Control Systems - book by Barker, H. A.

    DESCRIPTION: The tone of the Proceedings is set by the three Plenary papers, and the remaining papers are arranged under the coherent themes of environment, computational methods, modelling and simulation, design methods and applications. The papers in the Proceedings represent the state-of-the-art ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Identification and System Parameter Estimation 1991, 2-Volume Set - book by Banyasz, Cs.;Keviczky, L.

    DESCRIPTION: This 2-Volume Set covers all the major aspects of identification and parameter/state estimation, from theoretical and methodological developments to practical applications including self-adaptive and self-tuning control. The implementation of hardware and software techniques is also cov... view more info and the price of this book.

    Distributed Intelligence Systems 1991 - book by Levis, A. H.;Stephanou, H. E.

    DESCRIPTION: Containing 41 papers, this volume focuses on recent advances in the field of intelligent systems.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Section headings and selected articles: Putting some life into the system, J. L. Casti. Discrete Event Systems. Reasoning of discrete event systems in temporal logic, J... view more info and the price of this book.

    Mathematical and Control Applications in Agriculture and Horticulture - book by Hashimoto, Y.;Day, W.

    DESCRIPTION: This title provides a general overview of recent developments and research into types of systems and their uses in the agricultural and horticultural industry. 64 papers are included, containing both theoretical models and applied examples for greenhouse systems, harvesting technology a... view more info and the price of this book.

    Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1991 - book by Isermann, R.;Freyermuth, B.

    DESCRIPTION: These Proceedings provide a general overview as well as detailed information on the developing field of reliability and safety of technical processes in automatically controlled processes. The plenary papers present the state-of-the-art and an overview in the areas of aircraft and nucle... view more info and the price of this book.

    Safety of Computer Control Systems 1991 - book by Lindeberg, J.F.

    DESCRIPTION: Containing 29 papers, this volume contributes to the literature published on the safety of computer systems. The papers cover all aspects - specification, development, analysis, verification, validation of hardware and software, as well as the problems involved in the reliability, avail... view more info and the price of this book.

    Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 1991 - book by Rodd, M.G.;Suski, G.J.

    DESCRIPTION: This set of proceedings contains the most significant papers presented at the third IFAC Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Real-time Control, which was held from September 23-25, 1991 in the USA. In this workshop, although there were still some "exotic" applications, a more practic... view more info and the price of this book.

    Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control 1991 - book by Fleming, P.J.;Jones, D.I.

    DESCRIPTION: Computer scientists have long appreciated that the relationship between algorithms and architecture is crucial. Broadly speaking the more specialized the architecture is to a particular algorithm then the more efficient will be the computation. The penalty is that the architecture will ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Expert Systems in Mineral and Metal Processing - book by Jamsa-Jounela, S-L;Niemi, A. J.

    DESCRIPTION: Within the metal and mining industries, the use of expert systems for monitoring and control is on the increase. The content of each paper had to include both expert systems, neural networks or fuzzy control. The papers were evenly contributed from industry, universities and research in... view more info and the price of this book.

    Distributed Computer Control Systems 1991 - book by Kopetz, H.;Rodd, M.G.

    DESCRIPTION: Distributed computer control is at the intersection between control engineering and computer science. Containing 22 papers, this book provides an up-to-date reference source of important issues in the design and implementation of distributed real-time computer systems.

    TABLE OF CONTEN... view more info and the price of this book.

    Control of Power Plants and Power Systems 1992 - book by Welfonder, E.;Lausterer, G.K.;Weber, H.

    DESCRIPTION: The aim of this symposium is to bring together control engineers and scientists in power plant and power system design. Problems concerning the modelling and the control of single power plant units as well as problems concerning the long-, mid- and short-term dynamics and the control of... view more info and the price of this book.

    Modeling and Control of Biotechnical Processes 1992 - book by Karim, M.N.;Stephanopoulos, G.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume provides the state-of-the-art findings of control theory and applications of biotechnical processes. Topics covered include neural networks and their applications, modeling, identification, AI and expert systems.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Section headings and selected papers: Det... view more info and the price of this book.

    Low Cost Automation 1992 - book by Kopacek, P.;Albertos, P.

    DESCRIPTION: The main aim of this symposium was to bring together end-users and control system specialists to evaluate the possibilities for improvement of techniques, design procedures, components and instruments to encourage low cost automation; considering not only economic aspects but also impro... view more info and the price of this book.

    Adaptive Systems in Control and Signal Processing 1992 - book by Dugard, L.;M'Saad, M.;Landau, I.D.

    DESCRIPTION: Adaptive Systems remain a very interesting field of theoretical research, extended by methodological studies and an increasing number of applications. The plenary papers, invited sessions and contributed sessions focused on many aspects of adaptive systems, such as systems identificatio... view more info and the price of this book.

    Automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing 1992 - book by Gu Yan;Chen Zhen-Yu

    DESCRIPTION: The purpose of the Symposium was to exchange ideas and approaches relating to the latest development of factory automation in mining, mineral and metal processing. This volume begins with the four plenary papers, concerning the automation of mineral processes, automation in iron and ste... view more info and the price of this book.

    Safety of Computer Control Systems 1992 (SAFECOMP' 92) - book by Frey, H.H.

    DESCRIPTION: SAFECOMP '92 advances the state-of-the-art, reviews experiences of the past years, considers the guidance now available and identifies the skills, methods, tools and techniques required for the safety of computer control systems.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Section headings and selected papers... view more info and the price of this book.

    Real-Time Programming 1992 - book by Boullart, L.;De La Puente, J.A.

    DESCRIPTION: The 47 papers in this volume provide a useful reference tool for the state-of-the-art research in real-time programming.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Selected papers: Time concepts in real-time software, L. Motus. A temporal logic approach to state reachability in real-time program synchronizat... view more info and the price of this book.

    Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications 1992 - book by Liu, B.;Chen, T.;Zheng, Y.P.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume, covering both the theoretical and applied aspects of large scale systems (LSS), presents both the state-of-the-art and current trends of development. Ideas are also presented on reviving the growth of LSS and applying experience to industry and society. Subjects include dat... view more info and the price of this book.

    On-Line Fault Detection and Supervision in the Chemical Process Industries - book by Dhurjati, P.S.;Stephanopoulos, G.

    DESCRIPTION: The papers presented at this Symposium were grouped into five major sections: Strategies for the detection and diagnosis of process faults; Modeling, validation, and interpretation of process trends; Supervision and control of chemical plants; Neural networks in process supervision and ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technology 1992 - book by Zaremba, M.B.

    DESCRIPTION: These proceedings contain more than 80 of the best papers presented at the INCOM '92 Symposium, and relate to the vast changes which are occurring worldwide in manufacturing technology. Research oriented technical papers cover subjects such as: simulation of manufacturing processes; sen... view more info and the price of this book.

    Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 1992 - book by Verbruggen, H.B.;Rodd, M.G.

    DESCRIPTION: The symposium had two main aims, to investigate the state-of-the-art in the application of artificial intelligence techniques in real-time control, and to bring together control system specialists, artificial intelligence specialists and end-users. Many professional engineers working in... view more info and the price of this book.

    Intelligent Components and Instruments for Control Applications 1992 - book by Ollero, A.;Camacho, E. F.

    DESCRIPTION: Intelligent control is an emergent field involving the development of new control techniques, such as reasoning, learning and perception, and has a great impact on a number of applications including robotics and process control. The symposium brought together control systems specialists... view more info and the price of this book.

    Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Man-Machine Systems 1992 - book by Stassen, H.G.

    DESCRIPTION: Containing 4 plenary papers and 38 technical papers, this volume contributes to the literature on the important subject of man-machine systems. The many topics discussed include human performance skills, knowledge engineering and expert systems, training procedures, human performance an... view more info and the price of this book.

    Dynamics and Control of Chemical Reactors, Distillation Columns and Batch Processes - book by Balchen, J.G.;Gilles, E.D.;Waller, K.V.;Rawlings, J.B.

    DESCRIPTION: In addition to the three main themes: chemical reactors, distillation columns, and batch processes this volume also addresses some of the new trends in dynamics and control methodology such as model based predictive control, new methods for identification of dynamic models, nonlinear co... view more info and the price of this book.

    Modelling and Control of National Economies 1992 - book by Tu Xuyan

    DESCRIPTION: This meeting provided a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on modelling and control of national economies among scientists, economists and engineers from around the world. The proceedings are separated into three parts. Part I, Modelling and Control, is concerned with macro... view more info and the price of this book.

    Modelling and Control of National Economies 1992 - book by Tu Xuyan

    DESCRIPTION: This meeting provided a forum for the exchange of ideas and information on modelling and control of national economies among scientists, economists and engineers from around the world. The proceedings are separated into three parts. Part I, Modelling and Control, is concerned with macro... view more info and the price of this book.

    Automated Systems Based on Human Skill (and Intelligence) - book by Harvey, N.;Emspak, F.

    DESCRIPTION: This symposium brought together end-users, managers and designers to examine and discuss the interaction between automated systems and related technologies and those working with them. It is increasingly clear that the optimum method to implement modern production processes is to involv... view more info and the price of this book.

    Automatic Control in Aerospace 1992 - book by DeBra, D.B.;Gottzein, E.

    DESCRIPTION: Space vehicles have become increasingly complex in recent years, and the number of missions has multiplied as a result of extending frontiers in the exploration of our planetary system and the universe beyond. The advancement of automatic control in aerospace reflects these developments... view more info and the price of this book.

    Nonlinear Control Systems Design 1992 - book by Fliess, M.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume represents most aspects of the rich and growing field of nonlinear control. These proceedings contain 78 papers, including six plenary lectures, striking a balance between theory and applications. Subjects covered include feedback stabilization, nonlinear and adaptive contro... view more info and the price of this book.

    Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control 1992 - book by Fleming, P.J.;Kwon, W.H.

    DESCRIPTION: This Workshop focuses on such issues as control algorithms which are suitable for real-time use, computer architectures which are suitable for real-time control algorithms, and applications for real-time control issues in the areas of parallel algorithms, multiprocessor systems, neural ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Motion Control for Intelligent Automation - book by De Carli, A.;Masada, E.

    DESCRIPTION: Motion Control is a rapidly evolving topic, with a wide range of applications, especially in robotics. Speed and position control of a mechanical system has always been one of the main problems in automatic control, as the demand increases for advanced levels of accuracy and dynamics. T... view more info and the price of this book.

    Modeling and Control in Biomedical Systems - book by Patterson, B.W.

    DESCRIPTION: Contains 200 papers and posters presented at the IFAC Symposium on Modeling and Control of Biomedical Systems held in Galveston, Texas 27-30 March 1994. Coverage includes: biomedical signals and systems; the cardiovascular system; cellular and molecular systems; critical care; kinetic ... view more info and the price of this book.

    System Identification 1994 (SYSID'94), 3-Volume Set - book by Blanke, M.;Soderstrom, T.

    DESCRIPTION: The everyday use of system identification is now widespread, with new and challenging problem areas continually being discovered due, mainly, to new applicaton requirements. Leading researchers and industrial practitioners were able to discuss and evaluate current developments and futur... view more info and the price of this book.

    Advances in Control Education 1994 - book by Ichikawa, A.;Furuta, K.

    DESCRIPTION: The implementation of effective control systems can help to achieve a wide range of benefits, not least in terms of real cost-savings. Education plays a vital role in ensuring continued success and its importance is well recognized by IFAC with a specifically designated technical commit... view more info and the price of this book.

    Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles - book by Charnley, D.

    DESCRIPTION: There is an increasing range of applications in which a robot has to operate in large unstructured and uncertain environments - including military cross country missions, fire fighting, construction, nuclear plant inspections, inspecting and repairing subsea structures, assembling space... view more info and the price of this book.

    Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time Control 1994 - book by Crespo, A.

    DESCRIPTION: Artificial Intelligence is one of the new technologies that has contributed to the successful development and implementation of powerful and friendly control systems. These systems are more attractive to end-users shortening the gap between control theory applications. The IFAC Symposia... view more info and the price of this book.

    Distributed Computer Control Systems 1994 - book by De La Puente, J.A.;Rodd, M.G.

    DESCRIPTION: One of the most important issues in the development of distributed computer control systems is the ability to build software and hardware which is both reliable and time deterministic; this is an area where control engineering and computer science naturally meet. This publication brings... view more info and the price of this book.

    System Structure and Control 1995 - book by Guglielmi, M.

    DESCRIPTION: These proceedings contain the 100 papers presented at the 3rd IFAC Conference on System Structure and Control held in Nantes, France, 5-7 July 1995. The conference provided an ideal forum for automatic control researchers from around the world to present their results and exchange both ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Low Cost Automation 1995 - book by Paiuk, J.;Weisz, J.P.

    DESCRIPTION: These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 4th IFAC Symposium on Low Cost Automation (LCA '95) held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 13-15 September 1995. The objective of the Symposium was to bring together end-users and control systems specialists in order to evaluate the poss... view more info and the price of this book.

    Integrated Systems Engineering - book by Johannsen, G.

    DESCRIPTION: A key solution for present and future technological problems is an integration systems approach. The challenging cross-discipline of integrated systems engineering is, perhaps, more easily accepted and implemented in the organizational structures of industries than in academia. The oppo... view more info and the price of this book.

    Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applications 1995 - book by Roberts, P.D.;Ellis, J.E.

    DESCRIPTION: The field of Large Scale Systems is wide and diverse and rapidly developing. Today's applications for these systems include: transportation, manufacturing systems, process control, water systems and power systems. The IFAC/IFORS/IMACS Symposia on Large Scale Systems: Theory and Applicat... view more info and the price of this book.

    New Trends in Design of Control Systems 1994 - book by Huba, M.;Mikles, J.

    DESCRIPTION: Computer control systems are developing rapidly, therefore an insight of the latest trends in the design of control systems will increase the success of future developments. This publication brings together the latest key papers on research and development trends in this field, allowing... view more info and the price of this book.

    Advanced Adaptive Control - book by Wang, H.;Liu, G.P.;Harris, C.J.;Brown, M.

    DESCRIPTION: For three decades, adaptive control has been an important area for basic theoretical research into the autonomous control of a priori unknown dynamical processes. Much of this study has been devoted to studies and applications associated with linear time invariant processes subject to G... view more info and the price of this book.

    Dynamics and Control of Chemical Reactors, Distillation Columns and Batch Processes (DYCORD'95) - book by Rawlings, J.B.

    DESCRIPTION: Three important areas of process dynamics and control: chemical reactors, distillation columns and batch processes are the main topics of discussion and evaluation at the IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Chemical Reactors, Distillation Columns and Batch Processes (DYCORD '95). ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Youth Automation - book by Chen, J.;Wu, J.Z.;Wang, Q.L.;Liao, X.Z.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume contains 115 papers presented at the IFAC Youth Automation Conference held in Beijing, PRC from 22-25 August 1995. This was the first conference of its kind and aimed to provide young scholars and specialists in automation technology with an opportunity to exchange and discu... view more info and the price of this book.

    Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Man-Machine Systems 1995 - book by Sheridan, T.B.

    DESCRIPTION: The series of IFAC Symposia on Analysis, Design and Evaluation of Man-Machine Systems provides the ideal forum for leading researchers and practitioners who work in the field to discuss and evaluate the latest research and developments. This publication contains the papers presented at ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Nonlinear Control Systems Design 1995 - book by Krener, A.J.;Mayne, D.Q.

    DESCRIPTION: The series of IFAC Symposia on Nonlinear Control Systems provides the ideal forum for leading researchers and practitioners who work in the field to discuss and evaluate the latest research and developments. This publication contains the papers presented at the 3rd IFAC Symposium in the... view more info and the price of this book.

    Learning Automata: Theory and Applications - book by Najim, K.;Poznyak, A.S.

    DESCRIPTION: Learning systems have made a significant impact on all areas of engineering problems. They are attractive methods for solving many problems which are too complex, highly non-linear, uncertain, incomplete or non-stationary, and have subtle and interactive exchanges with the environment w... view more info and the price of this book.

    Supplementary Ways for Improving International Stability 1995 - book by Kopacek, P.

    DESCRIPTION: These proceedings contain the papers presented at the IFAC Conference on Supplementary Ways for Improving International Stability (SWIIS '95) held in Vienna, Austria, 29 September - 1 October 1995. International stability refers to conditions in which nations interact with one another i... view more info and the price of this book.

    Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes 1997, (3-Volume Set) - book by Patton, R.J.;Chen, J.

    DESCRIPTION: SAFEPROCESS '97 was the third in this major IFAC symposia series and covered a wide range of theoretical and application studies concerned with the reliability, availability and safety of controlled systems.The goal of the symposium was to bring together experts from different fields to... view more info and the price of this book.

    Computer Aided Control Systems Design 1997 - book by Boullart, L.;Loccufier, M.;Mattsson, S.E.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume contains the proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Computer Aided Control Systems Design (CACSD'97) held in Gent, Belgium on 28-30 April 1997. It presents a high-standing scientific contribution to the challenging field of CACSD and gives an excellent preview of current r... view more info and the price of this book.

    Human-Oriented Design of Advanced Robotics Systems - book by Kopacek, P.

    DESCRIPTION: The first IFAC Workshop on Human-Oriented Design of Advanced Robotics Systems (DARS '95) was organized and held in Austria in 1995 because new approaches for advanced robotics systems are expected to be applied in industrial production and other areas in the near future and new ergonomi... view more info and the price of this book.

    Control Education and Technology Transfer Issues - book by Busetti de Paula, M.A.;Gouvea da Costa, S.E.

    DESCRIPTION: The IFAC Workshop on Control Education and Technology Transfer Issues was held in Brazil in 1995 and gave academic and industrial researchers from all over the world the opportunity to discuss their experiences and research results in this field. This postprint volume from the workshop ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Advances in Control Education 1997 - book by Verde, C.

    DESCRIPTION: This Proceedings Volume contains the papers presented at the 4th Symposium on Advances in Control Education, ACE '97, which was held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 14-16 July 1997. The symposium was an international forum where the recent developments and advances on control education were di... view more info and the price of this book.

    System Identification 1997 (SYSID 1997) - book by Sawaragi, Y.;Sagara, S.

    DESCRIPTION: The 11th International Federation of Automatic Control Symposium on System Identification (SYSID '97) was held from 8th to 11th July 1997 at Kitakyushu International Conference Center, Fukuoka, Japan.278 papers are included in these proceedings, covering various methods of different bac... view more info and the price of this book.

    Distributed Computer Control Systems 1995 - book by Sahraoui, A.E.K.;de la Puente, J.A.

    DESCRIPTION: The series of IFAC Workshops on distributed computer control systems (DCCS) provide the opportunity for leading researchers and practitioners in the field to discuss and evaluate recent advances and current issues in theory, applications and technology of DCCS. DCCS'95, the 13th IFAC wo... view more info and the price of this book.

    Robust Control Design 1997 - book by Banyasz, Cs.

    DESCRIPTION: These proceedings contain papers presented at the IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND'97) held in Budapest, Hungary between 25-27 June 1997.The Symposium was sponsored by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and was organized by the Computer and Automatio... view more info and the price of this book.

    Intelligent Components and Instruments for Control Applications 1997 - book by Foulloy, L.

    DESCRIPTION: SICICA'97 was the third symposium in the series (1992, Malaga - Spain; 1994, Budapest - Hungary). It was sponsored by the Technical Committee on Components and Instruments and was organized by the Laboratoire d'Automatique et de MicroInformatique Industrielle, Université de Savoi... view more info and the price of this book.

    Control of Industrial Systems - book by Grujic, Lj.T.;Borne, P.;El Moudni, A.;Ferney, M.

    DESCRIPTION: The IFAC Conference on Control of Industrial Systems (CIS'97) was organized by the Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs. It was devoted to 'Control for the Future of the Youth' and linked the control science with the control engineering in the framework of industrial systems control.The ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control, on CD-ROM - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.

    DESCRIPTION: Since the first Congress was held in Moscow in 1960, the IFAC World Congresses have come to be recognized as the pre-eminent event for the worldwide community of researchers and practitioners of control systems science and engineering.This publication represents a major new development ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : 18-Volume Set - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.

    DESCRIPTION: For nearly 40 years, the IFAC Congresses have been a landmark in the calendar of control. These congresses are held every three years in a different country and usually on a different continent. The last congress was held in Sydney and the next one in 1999 will be in Beijing. Meanwhile,... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Robotics, Components and Instruments - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Basanez, L.;Nicolo, F.;Ollero, A.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Robotic Force Control. Controllability through active forces in cooperating robots with general payloads (A. De Luca, R. Mattone). Flexible Robots 1. Control of a piezoelectric flexible structure striking a quasi-rigid body (M. ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Manufacturing, Social Effects, Bio-Production, Biomedical, Environment - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Basanez, L.;Villa, A.;Williams, T.J.;Zaremba, M.;Martin, T.;Brandt, D.;Forslin, J.;Furuta, K.;Hasimoto, Y.;Cobelli, C.;Tavares, L.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Models for Production Planning and Scheduling. Scheduling permutation flow shops using the Lagrangian relaxation technique (Liu Guandong et al.). Discrete Event Models in Manufacturing. Automatic assembly planning based on genet... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Control Design I - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Bitmead, R.R.;Kraus, F.J.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Applications 1. Robust roll motion regulator based on IMC structure (M.J. Lopez et al.). Applications 2. Optimal design of sensor/actuator location and feedback gain by Taguchi method (S.M. Yang et al.). Design 1. Decentralized ... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Control Design II, Optimization - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Bitmead, R.;Kraus, F.J.;Kirillova, F.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Repetitive Control Design. Effects of non-periodic disturbances on repetitive control systems (J.A. Tenney, M. Tomizuka). Mace. On-orbit modeling and identification for MACE (R.M. Glaese, K. Liu). Saturation and Anti-Windup. CAD... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Nonlinear Systems I - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Bitmead, R.;Isidori, A.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Stability Analysis of Nonlinear Systems. Guaranteed domains of attraction for multivariable Luré systems via open Lyapunov surfaces (W.M. Haddad et al.). Nonlinear Oscillations. Global analysis of third-order relay feedba... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Nonlinear Systems II - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Bitmead, R.;Isidori, A.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Control of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems. Feedback stabilization of perturbed nonlinear discrete-time systems (C. Cruz, H. Nijmeijer). Control of Hybrid Systems and Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems (see Volume E). Nonli... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Education, Robust Control I - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Furuta, K.;Fasol, K.H.;Bitmead, R.;Petersen, I.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume selected headings and selected papers: Control Education and Laboratory Experiments 1. A lecture demonstration for a course in digital control (J.J. Milek). Control Education and Laboratory Experiments 2. A new concept for computer aided learning in the cont... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Robust Control II, Stochastic Systems - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Bitmead, R.;Petersen, I.;Chen, H.-F.;Picci, G.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Robustness Analysis 1. On stability profiles (W. Sienel). Robustness Analysis 2. Duality bounds in robustness analysis (U. Jonsson, A. Rantzer). Variable Structure Control. Fuzzy sliding mode control for uncertain dynamic system... view more info and the price of this book.

    Proceedings of the 13th World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control : Identification I - book by Gertler, J.J.;Cruz, J.B.;Peshkin, M.;Chen, H.-F.;Wahlberg, B.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS: Volume headings and selected papers: Volume I - Identification I. System Identification and the Behavioral Framework. On representing behaviors in the frequency domain (S. Weiland, A.A. Stoorvogel). Set-Membership Estimation and Identification: Theory. A lower err... view more info and the price of this book.

    Intelligent Autonomous Control in Aerospace 1995 - book by Liu, L.D.

    DESCRIPTION:

    TABLE OF CONTENTS:

    AUTHORS: Liu, L.D.

    PAGES: pages

    PUBLISH DATE: 01/04/1997

    ISBN Number: 0-08-042373-6... view more info and the price of this book.

    Manufacturing, Modelling, Management and Control - book by Groumpos, P.P.;Tzes, A.P.

    DESCRIPTION: This Proceedings contains the papers presented at the IFAC Symposium on Manufacturing, Modeling, Management and Control (MIM 2000), held in Patras, Greece, on 12-14 July 2000. MIM is a long-running series of IFAC meetings featuring the best work on the development, comparison and classi... view more info and the price of this book.

    Modeling and Control of Economic Systems 2001 - book by Neck, R.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume contains papers presented at the IFAC symposium on Modeling and control of Economic Systems (SME 2001), which was held at the university of Klagenfurt, Austria. The symposium brought together scientists and users to explore current theoretical developments of modeling tech... view more info and the price of this book.

    Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control 1997 - book by Ruano, A.E.;Fleming, P.J.

    DESCRIPTION: These proceedings contain the selection of papers presented at the IFAC Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control (AARTC '97) held at the Vilamoura Marina Hotel, Vilamoura, Portugal. Rapid developments in microelectronics and computer science continue to provide opp... view more info and the price of this book.

    Singular Solutions and Perturbations in Control Systems - book by Gurman, V.;Miller, B.;Dmitriev, M.

    DESCRIPTION: This volume contains the proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Singular Solutions and Perturbations in Control Systems (SSPCS-97) held at Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia on 7-11 July 1997. The Workshop was sponsored by IFAC and organized jointly by the Russian National Committee of Automatic C... view more info and the price of this book.

    New Trends in Design of Control Systems 1997 - book by Kozak, S.;Huba, M.

    DESCRIPTION: The 2nd IFAC Workshop "New Trends in Design of Control Systems" was organized by the Slovak Society of Cybernetics and Informatics (which is the Slovak IFAC National Member Organization) on 7-10 September 1997 and was sponsored by the IFAC Technical Committee on Control Design.The aim o... view more info and the price of this book.

    Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft 1997 - book by Vukic, Z.;Roberts, G.N.

    DESCRIPTION: This Proceedings Volume contains papers presented at the 4th IFAC Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft (MCMC'97) which was held in Brijuni, Croatia, on 10-12 September 1997. The paper selection process resulted in an interesting three-day programme comprising three invi... view more info and the price of this book.

    Automated Systems Based on Human Skill 1997 (Joint Design of Technology and Organisation) - book by Brandt, D.;Cernetic, J.

    DESCRIPTION: These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 6th IFAC Symposium on Automated Systems Based on Human Skill (Joint Design of Technology and Organisation) held in Kranjska gora, Slovenia. The symposium theme was split into two different industry-oriented workshops. "Production 200... view more info and the price of this book.

    System Structure and Control 1997 - book by Ionescu, V.;Popescu, D.

    DESCRIPTION: The aim of this conference was to promote a fruitful exchange within the community of scientists involved in the area of systems and control.The topics of the conference focused on those aspects that are directly related to modern systems structure theory and included linear systems, st... view more info and the price of this book.

    Distributed Computer Control Systems 1997 - book by MacLeod, I.M.;Kwon, W.H.

    DESCRIPTION: It is increasingly accepted that future dependable, real-time digital computer control systems will have distributed architectures. Advantages of distributed computer control systems include the possibility of composing large systems out of pre-tested components with minimal integration... view more info and the price of this book.

    Automatic Systems for Building Infrastructure in Developing Countries - book by Dimirovski, G.;

    DESCRIPTION: This proceedings