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Voronoi-Based Outdoor Traversable Region Modelling
Nowadays, the interest in mobile robotics working in outdoor environments is increasing due to the new applications focussed on aiding humans. To...
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LMI Optimization for Fixed-Order H∞ Controller Design
A general H∞ controller design technique is proposed for scalar linear systems, based on properties of positive polynomial matrices. The order of the...
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Granular Nested Causal Complexes
Causal reasoning occupies a central position in human reasoning. In many ways, causality is granular. This is true for: perception, commonsense...
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The Evolution of the Concept of Fuzzy Measure
Most information discovery processes need to understand the reasons of the success of the inference methods or the usability of the new information,...
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Uncertain Knowledge Association Through Information Gain
The problem of entity association is at the core of information mining techniques. In this work we propose an approach that links the similarity of...
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Integrated Clustering Modeling with Backpropagation Neural Network for Effcient Customer Relationship Management
The rapid progress in digital data acquisition and storage technology has lead to the fast growing tremendous and amount of data stored in databases,...
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Current Status of Computerized Decision Support Systems in Mammography
Breast cancer is one of the most devastating and deadly diseases for women today. Despite advances in cancer treatment, early mammographic detection...
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B Experimental Setups and Acoustic Environments
In this chapter, the experimental setup and the acoustic environments are described, which are used in this work for illustrating the properties of...
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Analysis and Architecture of Clinical Workflow Systems using Agent-Oriented Lifecycle Models
Healthcare executives are grappling with a climate of great change in the healthcare industry. This is coming from a number of sources. First, there...
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5. Nonlinear Systems with Autonomous Linear Parts
Denote $\displaystyle \Omega(r) = \{h \in C^n : \vert\vert h \vert\vert \leq...
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10. Aizerman’s Problem for Nonautonomous Systems
Let b k (t) (t≥ 0; k=1, ... , n) be real non-negative scalar-valued functions having continuous derivatives up to...
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11. Input-to-State Stability
Let us consider a system described by the following equation in a Euclidean space C n :...
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9. Lur’e Type Systems
In the present chapter we investigate the asymptotic stability of the system...
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1. Examples and Modelling of Switched and Impulsive Systems
When you begin to read this book, you may ask: “what is a switched and impulsive system?” This is a question that may be best answered through...
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Applications of Fuzzy Logic in Mobile Robots Control
Fuzzy logic is a mathematical tool that can manipulate human reasoning, concepts and linguistic terms. It suits ill-defined systems since it can...
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6 Stochastic Passivity
Passivity of deterministic linear systems plays an important role in network theory and in adaptive control. The fact that a system is passive...
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4 Continuous-time Systems: Tracking Control
In this chapter we treat the problem of H∞ tracking with stochastic multiplicative white noise. We extend the work of [98], which does not involve...
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H∞ Control
The problem of H∞ control has been a topic of recurring interest for two decades. The so-called bounded real lemma has played an important role in...
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Stabilization
In this chapter, we shall deal with the stabilization problem for singular systems. The purpose is the design of controllers such that the...
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Control of Nonlinear Systems with Uncertainty
In this chapter, we consider nonlinear systems with time-varying uncertain variables and present robust inverse optimal controller designs that...