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Pursuit Strategies for Autonomous Agents
In this paper, we examine the problem of how to achieve certain geometric formations among a group of identical mobile autonomous agents. Our...
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Determining Environmental Boundaries: Asynchronous Communication and Physical Scales
This paper considers a recently proposed model for the self-organizing, decentralized, real-time motion planning for a swarm of homogeneous mobile...
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3 Sampled-data Control of Nonlinear Systems
This chapter provides some of the main ideas resulting from recent developments in sampled-data control of nonlinear systems. We have tried to bring...
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7 Structural Properties of Linear Systems – Part II: Structure at Infinit
This chapter is the sequel of [7]. Its topic is the structure at infinity of discrete and continuous linear time-varying systems in a unified...
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Intrinsic Uncertainty in Gene Regulation Network
Regulation of gene expression is the fundamental biological process through which a variety of cell functions are organized and executed ([9],[12])....
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Feedback Networks
This paper presents a survey of some recent results which are primarily concerned with the action of relatively simple controllers working in complex...
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Distance Measures, Robust Stability Conditions and Robust Performance Guarantees for Uncertain Feedback Systems
Given a nominal plant, a perturbed plant, an uncertainty structure and performance weights, we use robust model validation ideas to define and...
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Two Methods for Analysis of Continuum Mechanics of Elastic Structures
There are two basic methods to analyze the continuum elastic structural mechanics: One is by applying Newton’s law of motion to a free body element...
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Vibrations of Inclined Bars with End Constraint
Considered are the vibrations of inclined bars with the bottom end flxed in space and the top end having a constraint which requires that this end...
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Buckling of Inclined Columns
The stability of a simple truss subjected to a single force, P, as shown in Fig. 8.1 was investigated by Mises [40] as a basic model to illustrate...
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Membrane Vibrations of Conical Shells
The vibrations of conical shells are due to the inertial and external forces acting the transverse, circumferential and meridional directions of the...
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B Appendix: The Continuous DLMI Method
In the past, LMIs were used mainly to solve stationary problems. The algebraic nature of the Riccati equations to which these problems correspond,...
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5 Continuous-time Systems: Static Output-feedback
The static output-feedback problem has attracted the attention of many in the past [5], [111] and [100]. The main advantage of the static...
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9 Discrete-time Systems: Tracking Control
A method for solving the deterministic discrete-time tracking problems with preview has been introduced in [17]. Similarly to the deterministic...
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8 Discrete-time Systems: General Filtering
In Chapter 7 we introduced the solution to the output-feedback control problem for the time-varying, discrete-time systems with state-multiplicative...
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Asymptotic Solutions of Conical Shells of Constant Thickness
The solutions of conical shells with linearly varying thickness presented in the last chapter have suggested a new approach to obtain asymptotic...
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Effect of Rotatory Inertia and Shear Deformation on Vibration of Inclined Bars with End Constraint
The effect of rotatory inertia and shear deformation on the vibration of the inclined bar with the end constraint studied in Chap. 2 is examined...
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Buckling of Conical Shells under a Single Axial Load
The buckling of conical shells subjected to external loads is a classic problem in shell structures. Since the theoretical predications could not...
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2 Cascaded Nonlinear Time-Varying Systems: Analysis and Design
The general topic of study is Lyapunov stability of nonlinear time-varying cascaded systems. Roughly speaking these are systems in “open loop” as...
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3 Control of Mechanical Systems from Aerospace Engineering
The objective of this chapter is to describe geometric methods applied to aerospace systems: attitude control of a rigid spacecraft, orbital...