New Approaches in Automation and Robotics ISBN 978-3-902613-26-4 hard cover, 392 pages Edited by: Harald Aschemann Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria Publication date: May 2008 Price: 80 Euro incl. package & postage |Download the full text of this book|

About the Book The book “New Approaches in Automation and Robotics” offers in 22 chapters a collection of recent developments in automation, robotics as well as control theory. It is dedicated to researchers in science and industry, students, and practicing engineers, who wish to update and enhance their knowledge on modern methods and innovative applications. The authors and editor of this book wish to motivate people, especially under-graduate students, to get involved with the interesting field of robotics and mechatronics. We hope that the ideas and concepts presented in this book are useful for your own work and could contribute to problem solving in similar applications as well. It is clear, however, that the wide area of automation and robotics can only be highlighted at several spots but not completely covered by a single book.

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Table of Contents

01A Model Reference Based 2-DOF Robust Observer-Controller Design Methodology
Salva Alcantara, Carles Pedret and Ramon Vilanova

02Nonlinear Model-Based Control of a Parallel Robot Driven by Pneumatic Muscle Actuators
Harald Aschemann and Dominik Schindele

03Neural-Based Navigation Approach for a Bi-Steerable Mobile Robot
Azouaoui Ouahiba, Ouadah Noureddine, Aouana Salem and Chabi Djeffer

04On the Estimation of Asymptotic Stability Region of Nonlinear Polynomial Systems: Geometrical Approaches
Anis Bacha, Houssem Jerbi and Naceur Benhadj Braiek

05Networked Control Systems for Electrical Drives
Baluta Gheorghe and Lazar Corneliu

06Developments in the Control Loops Benchmarking
Grzegorz Bialic and Marian Blachuta

07Bilinear Time Series in Signal Analysis
Bielinska Ewa

08Nonparametric Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics of Systems Based on the Active Experiment
Magdalena Bockowska and Adam Zuchowski

09Group Judgement With Ties. Distance-Based Methods
Hanna Bury and Dariusz Wagner

10An Innovative Method for Robots Modeling and Simulation
Laura Celentano

11Models for Simulation and Control of Underwater Vehicles
Jorge Silva and Joao Sousa

12Fuzzy Stabilization of Fuzzy Control Systems
Mohamed M. Elkhatib and John J. Soraghan

13Switching Control in the Presence of Constraints and Unmodeled Dynamics
Vojislav Filipovic

14Advanced Torque Control
C. Fritzsche and H.-P. Duenow

15Design, Simulation and Development of Software Modules for the Control of Concrete Elements Production Plant
Georgia Garani and George K. Adam

16Operational Amplifiers and Active Filters: A Bond Graph Approach
Gilberto Gonzalez and Roberto Tapia

17Hypermobile Robots
Grzegorz Granosik

18Time-Scaling of SISO and MIMO Discrete-Time Systems
Bogdan Grzywacz

19Models of continuous-time linear time-varying systems with fully adaptable system modes
Miguel Angel Gutierrez de Anda, Arturo Sarmiento Reyes, Roman Kaszynski and Jacek Piskorowski

20Directional Change Issues in Multivariable State-feedback Control
Dariusz Horla

21A Smith Factorization Approach to Robust Minimum Variance Control of Nonsquare LTI MIMO Systems
Wojciech P. Hunek and Krzysztof J. Latawiec

22The Wafer Alignment Algorithm Regardless of Rotational Center
HyungTae Kim, HaeJeong Yang and SungChul Kim