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4 Finite Element Method
In this chapter, the fundamentals of the displacement-based finite element method are reiterated in a concise form, details can be found in a number...
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9 Direct Monte Carlo Simulation
The evaluation of the stochastic response by the Monte Carlo simulation technique is a powerful method for highly nonlinear systems as well as for...
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An $\mathcal{H}_\infty$ Loop-Sha** Approach to Steering Control for High-Performance Motorcycles
A fixed-parameter active steering compensation scheme that is designed to improve the dynamic behaviour of high-performance motorcycles is...
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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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11 Random Vibrations of Large Finite Element Systems
The basic idea for the computation of the stochastic response is based on the Karhunen-Loève expansion of the stochastic loading. For each Karhunen-...
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5 Non-Linear Static Analysis
The state of the art in the capability to predict the stability behavior of shell structures refers to areas such as asymptotic analysis [69] and...
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3 Spectral Analysis of Finite Dimensional Operators
A great number of engineering problems can be viewed as an input to output map**, as shown in Fig. 3.1, where the system represents the law for the...
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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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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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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...
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1 Introduction
Considerable progress has been achieved recently in modeling and mathematical analysis of various processes involved in contact between deformable...
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6 Mathematical Preliminaries
Part II provides mathematical formulations of the models, the assumptions that underlie them, their weak or variational formulations and the...
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11 Contact with Wear or Adhesion
In this chapter we present results on models of frictional contact when the wear of the contacting surfaces is taken into account. The importance of...
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3 Additional E.ects Involved in Contact
More is involved in contact than just friction, although it is the main process. Indeed, during a contact process elastic or plastic deformations of...
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13 Dynamic, One-Dimensional and Miscellaneous Problems
The previous part of this monograph makes it clear that the branch of the Mathematical Theory of Contact Mechanics, which deals with quasistatic...
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Adaptive and Distributed Coordination Algorithms for Mobile Sensing Networks
Consider n sites evolving within a convex polygon according to one of the following interaction laws: (i) each site moves away from the closest other...
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Human Physical Stresses at Normal and Abnormal Cabin Pressures
Atmospheric pressure is reduced as a function of altitude, thus making hypoxia, the condition of oxygen deficiency, a concern for aviation. The...