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An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Decentralized Control of Stochastic Systems
We consider the problem of computing decentralized control policies for stochastic systems with finite state and action spaces. Synthesis of optimal...
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Past, Present and Future of Automotive Control
This paper contains a survey of the application of control systems theory to automotive systems. For this application field, the most useful modeling...
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Experiment Design for Robust Control: Why Do More Work Than Is Needed?
Optimal input design for system identi.cation was an active area of research in the 1970’s, with different quality measures of the identified model...
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Robustly Stabilizing Controllers with Internal Loop
The problem of robust stabilization with respect to left coprime factor perturbations was first solved explicity for the rational case in Glover and...
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Multi-knowledge Approach for Mobile Robot Identification of a Changing Environment
In this paper, a large environment is divided into sub-areas to enable a robot to apply precise localization technology efficiently in real time....
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In Situ Autonomous Biomechanical Characterization
This paper presents a fully automated microrobotic system based on force/vision referenced control designed for cell mechanical characterization. The...
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Image-Based Visual Servoing for Mobile Robots with Catadioptric Camera
This paper presents an image-based visual servoing strategy for holonomic mobile robots equipped with a catadioptric camera. This kind of vision...
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Representation, Recognition and Generation of Actions in the Context of Imitation Learning
The paper deals with the development of a cognitive architecture for learning by imitation in which a rich conceptual representation of the observed...
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2 Observer Design for Nonlinear Systems
In this chapter, an overview of main observability problems and possible observer designs for nonlinear systems is proposed. In particular the...
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Toward a General Theory of Stochastic Hybrid Systems
In this chapter we set up a mathematical structure, called Markov string, to obtaining a very general class of models for stochastic hybrid systems....
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9 Reduced Order Filtering for Flexible Space Structures
Flexible space structures are often modeled by a large set of second order differential equations. A Kalman filter designed for such a model might...
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Padé Approximants
The frequent situation one encounters in applied science is the following: the information we need is contained in values, or some features of the...
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A On the Literature’s Two Different Definitions of Uniform Global Asymptotic Stability for Nonlinear Systems
In this appendix we discuss two different deffnitions of uniform global asymptotic stability (UGAS), both used in the literature. In the first one,...
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Output-Nulling Subspaces in Proper Systems
This chapter is devoted to a brief discussion of certain geometric properties of invariant zeros in proper systems S(A,B,C,D) (2.1).
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3 Stationary Processes
Much of the fundamental work done in the area of reduced order dynamic system optimization [1, 2] has been done in a setting which allows for a...
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The Laplace Transform in Control Theory
The Laplace transform is extensively used in control theory. It appears in the description of linear time-invariant systems, where it changes...
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Perturbative Series Expansions: Theoretical Aspects and Numerical Investigations
Perturbation theory is introduced by means of models borrowed from Celestial Mechanics, namely the two-body and three-body problems. Such models...
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Direct Products of Fuzzy Subgroups and Fuzzy Cyclic Subgroups
In Chapter 6, a necessary and sufficient condition for a fuzzy subgroup to be a weak direct sum of fuzzy subgroups was obtained by employing known...
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Statistical Recognition of Motion Patterns
One key prerequisite for a machine to interact intelligently with people is its ability to recognize humans as interaction partners and to understand...
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Flocking in Teams of Nonholonomic Agents
The motion of a group of nonholonomic mobile agents is synchronized using local control laws. This synchronization strategy is inspired by the early...