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Distributed Decision Making and Control is a mathematical treatment of relevant problems in distributed control, decision and multiagent systems, The research reported was prompted by the recent rapid development in large-scale networked and embedded systems and communications.

This monograph is aiming at researchers of systems control, especially those interested in multiagent systems, distributed and decentralized control, and structured systems.

Functional Observers for Dynamical Systems focuses on the theory of linear functional observers. The text serves as a useful reference to researchers in the field, helping them understand the relevant fundamental concepts to gather the most recent research advances.

For nonlinear dynamical systems, which represent the majority of real devices, any study of stability requires the investigation of the domain of attraction of an equilibrium point, i.e.

This book covers the control and dynamics of time delay systems, from its six-decade history to new texhniques designed to meet the many new challenges that are emerging from engineering, physics, mathematics, and economics.

Control of Nonlinear and Hybrid Process Systems includes numerous comments and remarks providing insight and fundamental understanding into the feedback control of nonlinear and hybrid systems, as well as applications that demonstrate the implementation and effectiveness of the presented control methods.

The Workshop on Stochastic Theory and Control discussed risk sensitive control, adaptive control, mathematics of finance, estimation, identification, optimal control, nonlinear filtering, stochasticm and stochastic partial differential equations, among other topics covered here.

Saturated Switching Systems treats the problem of actuator saturation, inherent in all dynamical systems by using two approaches: positive invariance in which the controller is designed to work within a region of non-saturating linear behaviour;

Search and Classification Using Multiple Autonomous Vehicles provides a comprehensive study of decision-making strategies for domain search and object classification using multiple autonomous vehicles (MAV) under both deterministic and probabilistic frameworks.

Frequency Domain Criteria for Absolute Stability focuses on recently-developed methods of delay-integral-quadratic constraints to provide criteria for absolute stability of nonlinear control systems.

Stochastic Recursive Algorithms for Optimization presents algorithms for constrained and unconstrained optimization and for reinforcement learning.

Singular systems which are also referred to as descriptor systems, semi-state systems, differential- algebraic systems or generalized state-space systems have attracted much attention because of their extensive applications in the Leontief dynamic model, electrical and mechanical models, etc.

This book is devoted to analysis and design on delta operator systems. The framework of this book has been carefully constructed for delta operator systems to handle sliding mode control, time delays, filter design, finite frequency and networked control.

Aims to create some links between control feedback and biology modeling communities based on similarities in modeling, observing and perceiving alive structures, and analyzing interconnections between biological structures and subsystems.

They introduce General Dynamical Systems, Linear Representation Systems, Affine Dynamical Systems, Pseudo Linear Systems, Almost Linear Systems and So-called Linear Systems for discrete-time and demonstrate the relationship between them and the other dynamical systems.

Here is a coherent approach to sensor network scheduling for parameter estimation in dynamic distributed systems modeled with partial differential equations, applying the so-called Fisher information matrix to the covariance matrix of parameter estimates.

Block-oriented Nonlinear System Identification deals with an area of research that has been very active since the turn of the millennium. Block-oriented Nonlinear System Identification serves as a reference for active researchers, new comers, industrial and education practitioners and graduate students alike.

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of rational matrix equations in stochastic systems, including various aspects of the field, previously unpublished results and explicit examples.

This volume contains a collection of papers in control theory and applications presented at a conference in honor of Clyde Martin on the occasion of his 60th birthday, held in Lubbock, Texas, November 14-15, 2003.

A principal objective of control engineering is to design control systems which are robust with respect to external disturbances and modelling uncertainty. More precisely, "Time-Varying Sliding Modes for Second and Third Order Systems" focuses on only one, but very important aspect of the sliding mode system design, i.e.

Due to the increasing security and reliability demand of actual industrial process control systems, the study on fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of dynamic systems has received considerable attention.

"Compound Control Methodology for Flight Vehicles" focuses on new control methods for flight vehicles. It is demonstrated that both Sliding Mode Control (SMC) and Active Disturbance Rejection Control (ADRC) have their own advantages and limitations, i.e., chattering of SMC and the observability of extended state observer (ESO), respectively.

This book contains 19 papers presented at the Johns Hopkins Workshop on Control of Cyber-Physical Systems (March 2013). It highlights the central role of control theory and systems thinking in developing the theory of cyber-physical systems.