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This book deals with the analysis of off-road vehicle dynamics from kinetics and kinematics perspectives and the performance of vehicle traversing over rough and irregular terrain.

This book investigates observer-fault estimation techniques in detail, while also highlighting recent research and findings regarding fault estimation. In turn, fault isolation is used to identify the location of the faulty component, while fault estimation is used to identify the size of the fault online.

This book is a self-contained collection of recent research findings providing a comprehensive and systematic unified framework for both analysis and synthesis for singularly perturbed systems.

This book offers a comprehensive, easy-to-understand overview of receding-horizon control for nonlinear networks. The book first introduces the state-feedback control problems of nonlinear networked systems and then studies output feedback control problems.

This book presents a discussion of problems encountered in the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). These are freight transport, rail transport and aerospace transport encompassing also space stations.

This monograph provides comprehensive guidelines on the current and future trends of innovative simulation systems. Throughout the chapters there are presented current issues and concepts of systems, technology, equipment, tools, research challenges and current, past and future applications of simulation systems.

This book shows how the systems approach is employed by scientists in various countries to solve specific problems concerning railway transport.

This book presents mathematical models of mob control with threshold (conformity) collective decision-making of the agents.

He has made significant contributions in modeling, optimization, CAD, control and applications of large-scale systems leading to his current global role in formalizing system of systems engineering (SoSE), as a new field. Areas of focus are: control systems, energy and system of systems, robotics and soft computing.

This book has been motivated by an urgent need for designing and implementation of innovative control algorithms and systems for tracked vehicles. They can be distributed among three main groups: design and control algorithms, sensoric and vision based in-formation, construction and testing mechanical parts of unmanned vehicles.

This book presents modern approaches to improving the energy efficiency, safety and environmental performance of industrial processes and products, based on the application of advanced trends in Green Information Technologies (IT) Engineering to components, networks and complex systems (software, programmable and hardware components, communications, Cloud and IoT-based systems, as well as IT infrastructures).The book¿s 16 chapters, prepared by authors from Greece, Malaysia, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, are grouped into four sections: (1) The Green Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Data Mining, (2) Green Mobile and Embedded Control Systems, (3) Green Logic and FPGA Design, and (4) Green IT for Industry and Smart Grids.The book will motivate researchers and engineers from different IT domains to develop, implement and propagate green values in complex systems. Further, it will benefit all scientists and graduate students pursuing research in computer science with a focus on green IT engineering.

The approach presented uses a local shape prior in each element of the underlying data domain and couples all local shape priors via smoothness constraints.

It presents solutions to a series of problems with new approaches for the control and filtering of S-MJS, including stability analysis, sliding mode control, dynamic output feedback control, robust filter design, and fault detection.

This book addresses key design and computational issues related to radiators in hydronic heating installations.

On various examples ranging from geosciences to environmental sciences, thisbook explains how to generate an adequate description of uncertainty, how to justifysemiheuristic algorithms for processing uncertainty, and how to make these algorithmsmore computationally efficient.

This book presents a broad spectrum of problems related to statistics, mathematics, teaching, social science, and economics as well as a range of tools and techniques that can be used to solve these problems.

This book presents a class of novel, self-learning, optimal control schemes based on adaptive dynamic programming techniques, which quantitatively obtain the optimal control schemes of the systems.

This book provides recent theoretical developments in and practical applications of fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control for complex dynamical systems, including uncertain systems, linear and nonlinear systems.

Polytope projects facilitate the utilization of smart systems and structures as key elements of the fourth industrial revolution.The book begins by presenting polytope projects as a reference architecture for cyber-physical systems and smart systems, before addressing industrial process synthesis in Chapter 2.

The book presents various state-of-the-art approaches for process synchronization in a distributed environment. At the same time, the solutions consider the priority of the requesting processes and allocate resource for the earliest request when no such request from a higher priority process is pending.

This book is the first major work covering applications in thermal engineering and offering a comprehensive introduction to optimal control theory, which has applications in mechanical engineering, particularly aircraft and missile trajectory optimization.

Research and application of impedance network converters are very popular in recent years, but it still lacks of understanding of and guidelines of impedance networks application, therefore, there is quiet a large potential market about impedance networks converters.

This book focuses on the development of a theory of info-dynamics to support the theory of info-statics in the general theory of information.

This book addresses two of the most difficult and computationally intractable classes of problems: discrete resource constrained scheduling, and discrete-continuous scheduling.