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Vision Based Motion Planning of Humanoid Robots
Vision is the most effective sensing form for humans in understanding their environment, recognition of the objects around them and navigating from... -
Evolution of Locomotion Controllers for Legged Robots
The construction of a locomotion controller for legged robots is a difficult and time consuming process. This task can be automated through the use... -
Thresholding Segmentation and Classification in Automated Ultrasonic Testing Image of Electrical Contact
This paper is concerned with the thresholding segmentation of ultrasonic C-scan image for defect with artificial intelligence and support vector... -
Fuzzy-Neural Impedance Control for Robots
In conventional impedance control, the difficulties encountered in obtaining an exact system dynamic model and selecting its impedance parameters... -
Adaptive Robust Fuzzy Tracking Control for a Class of Nonlinear Systems
The tracking control problem for a class of nonlinear systems with uncertain system function and uncertain gain function, which are the unstructured... -
Robust Stability of Interval Lur’e Systems: A Bilinear Matrix Inequality Approach
This paper provides a sufficient condition for an interval Lur’e system to be globally exponentially stable with a dam** factor. The Lur’e system... -
3-D Grasp Analysis and Synthesis Using the Ray-Shooting Technique
The ray-shooting technique is a powerful tool for handling geometric information in Computational Geometry and Computer Graphics. This chapter... -
Intelligent Technologies for Robotic Welding
This paper discusses intelligent technologies for the robotic welding, which contains computer vision sensing, automatic programming for weld path... -
The Seam Tracking System for Submerged Arc Welding
The structure and the principle of seam tracking for submerged arc welding were introduced in this paper. The method of seam recognition with... -
Preliminary Probe of Embedded Real-Time Operating System and Its Application in Welding Control
This paper firstly introduces the concept of real-time and embedded system, then analyses the character of welding and the advantages of adopting... -
Linear Reconfiguration Problem
In this chapter, the general reconfiguration problem is specialised by applying it to linear systems. The advantage is that the problem can be broken... -
Structural Solutions to Disturbance Decoupling
This chapter develops a novel algorithm which solves the disturbance decoupling problem by repeatedly decoupling one output variable at a time. The... -
Literature Overview
This chapter introduces the main literature relevant for the field of reconfi-guration. During the last decade, different communities have dealt with... -
Reconfiguration Using a Virtual Actuator
This chapter develops the concept of a virtual actuator. The idea of a virtual actuator is to use the input signal meant for the nominal process and... -
Basic Structural Properties
It is possible to attribute properties to a system structure. These properties are called structural properties, and they hold for almost all systems... -
Conclusion
This chapter mentions the main results of the manuscript. The motivation was to find methods for autonomous control reconfiguration after faults.... -
Reconfiguration of a Helicopter Model
A two-degrees-of-freedom helicopter experiment (see Fig. 17.1) is used as a more complex reconfiguration example. As demonstrated by Lunze et al.... -
Reconfiguration of the 3-Tank System
The 3-Tank experiment is shown in Fig. 16.1. It consists of three tanks, which are connected via the valves u2, u3 and u4. Pumps can bring water into... -
Introduction to Control Reconfiguration
Controlled technological systems are used in many fields. They provide essential services such as the regulation of water pressure, the control of... -
General Reconfiguration Problem
In this chapter, a formal definition of the reconfiguration problem is developed. While the general idea of reconfiguration may appear obvious, there...