Perspectives in control engineering : technologies, applications, and new directions / [edited by] Tariq Samad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Samad, Tariq.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automatic control.

Control theory.

Physical Description:

xxv, 503 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : IEEE Press, [2001]

Contents:

Part I Control Technologies

Chapter 1 Real-Time Computing and Control / Scott Bortoff 1

1.2 Timing Is Everything 4

1.3 Low-Level Real-Time Programming 6

1.4 Real-Time Operating Systems and Programming Languages 11

1.5 Hardware Issues 17

Chapter 2 Discrete-Event Systems and Their Optimization / Edwin K. P. Chong 20

2.2 Discrete-Event Systems 22

2.3 Some Discrete-Event System Models 25

2.4 Optimization of Discrete-Event Systems 33

Chapter 3 Computer-Automated Control System Design / Georg Grubel 42

3.2 Control Design Life Cycle to Be Supported by CACSD 45

3.3 Design Modeling and Synthesis Algorithms 47

3.4 Quality Modeling for Design Analysis and Decision Making 54

3.5 Automatic Tuning and Declarative Compromising 60

3.6 Further CACSD Technology 66

Chapter 4 System Modeling / Pradeep Misra 71

4.2 Static Models 75

4.3 Dynamical Models 79

4.4 Nonlinear Dynamical Systems 88

4.5 Models of Distributed Parameter Systems 95

4.6 Macromodels: Scope and Future 99

4.7 Remarks 101

Chapter 5 Intelligent Control: An Overview of Techniques / Kevin M. Passino 104

5.2 Intelligent Control Techniques 105

5.3 Applications 122

5.4 Concluding Remarks: Outlook on Intelligent Control 130

Chapter 6 Neural, Fuzzy, and Approximation-Based Control / Jay A. Farrell, Marios M. Polycarpou 134

6.2 Control Architectures 140

6.3 Approximator Properties 142

6.4 Parameter Estimation: Online Approximation 152

Chapter 7 Supervisory Hybrid Control Systems / Michael D. Lemmon 165

7.2 Examples of Supervisory Hybrid Systems 166

7.3 Hybrid Automaton 170

7.4 Hybrid Specifications 177

7.5 Hybrid System Analysis 179

7.6 Hybrid Control System Synthesis 183

Chapter 8 Variable Structure and Sliding-Mode Control / Fumio Hamano, Younchan Kim 189

8.2 Basic Idea of Sliding-Mode Control 193

8.3 Sliding-Mode Control: General Case 198

8.4 Sliding-Mode-Like Control For Sampled Data Control Systems 206

Chapter 9 Control Systems For "Complexity Management" / Tariq Samad 218

9.2 Control and Automation Tomorrow: Toward Complexity Management 221

9.3 Objectives for Control and Automation 221

9.4 Emerging Control Technologies for Complex Systems 225

9.5 New Application Opportunities for Control and Automation 228

9.6 Schools of Complexity Management 231

Part II Control Applications

Chapter 10 Control of Multivehicle Aerospace Systems / Jorge Tierno, Joseph Jackson, Steven Green 239

10.2 Future Controls Applications and Challenges in ATM 241

10.3 Example 2: Uninhabited (Combat) Air Vehicles 249

10.4 Example 3: Formation Flying and Satellite Clusters 253

Chapter 11 Affordable Flight Control for Aircraft and Missiles / Kevin A. Wise 259

11.2 Aircraft and Missile Dynamics and Linear Models 260

11.3 Simulation Tools 268

11.4 Flight Control System Design 269

11.5 Analysis Tools 281

11.6 Digital Implementation, Reusable Software, and Autocode 286

11.7 Flight Control Challenges in the Twenty-First Century: Unmanned Aircraft 287

Chapter 12 Industrial Process Control / Michael A. Johnson, Michael J. Grimble 291

12.2 Industrial Process Control Technology: State of the Art 292

12.3 Organizing Process Control Applications/Production Processes 297

12.4 Performance Monitoring 300

12.5 Industrial Three Term Control 306

12.6 Adaptation and Robustness 313

12.7 Aspects of Global System Optimization 314

Chapter 13 Power System Control and Estimation in A Competitive Environment / Christopher L. DeMarco 324

13.1 Introduction: Electric Power System Structure and Forces for Change 324

13.2 Power System Dynamics and the Historical Structure of Grid Control 327

13.3 Institutional Changes Impacting Control Techniques 337

13.4 New Technologies Impacting Restructuring and Control in a Competitive Environment 339

13.5 A Perspective on Future Directions for Power System Control Development and Research 343

Chapter 14 Intelligent Transportation Systems: Roadway Applications / Umit Ozguner 348

14.2 Traffic-Related Issues 351

14.3 Intelligent Vehicles 357

Chapter 15 Automotive Powertrain Controller Development Using Cacsd / K. Butts, J. Cook, C. Davey, J. Friedman, P. Menter, S. Raman, N. Sivashankar, P. Smith, S. Toeppa 370

15.2 The Systems Engineering Process 373

15.3 Computer-Aided Control System Design for Powertrain Controller Development 376

Chapter 16 Building Control and Automation Systems / Albert T. P. So 393

16.2 Existing Building Control Technologies 395

16.3 Information Technology for Building Systems Control 399

16.4 Building Automation Systems (BASs) 404

16.5 Advanced Building Controls Technologies 407

16.6 Difficulties with Building Systems Control 413

Chapter 17 Controlling Civil Infrastructures / B. F. Spencer Jr., Michael K. Sain 417

17.2 Hybrid Control Systems 420

17.3 Semiactive Control Systems 430

17.4 Semiactive Control of Civil Engineering Structures 435

Chapter 18 Robot Control / Bruno Siciliano 442

18.1 A Historical Perspective 442

18.2 Kinematic Control 443

18.3 Dynamic Control 446

18.4 Force Control 451

18.5 Visual Servoing 457

18.6 The Future 459

Chapter 19 Control of Communication Networks / R. Srikant 462

19.2 Network Control and Management 464

19.3 QoS, Admission Control, and Calculus of Variations 468

19.4 Congestion Control 476.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0780353560

OCLC:

43810681