In the history of mankind, observation and exploration of the universe have been continuously developed, and the curiosity of mankind about the unknown world will not cease. We have been sending exploration vehicles to an unknown planet beyond just looking, and we are looking fo…
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The delivery of care that meets both the quality of service (QoS) standards and organizational budgetary constraints is a fundamental objective for every healthcare manager. Designing an efficient service system, by optimally provisioning resources, can help achieve this goal. I…
State dependent Riccati equation (SDRE) plays an important role in nonlinear controller design. For autonomous nonlinear systems that can be expressed in linear form with state-dependent coefficients (SDC), SDRE-based controllers guarantee local asymptotic stability of the close…
In this dissertation we formulate, for the first time in the literature, an optimal control problem for self-adjoint ordinary differential operator equations in Hilbert spaces and derive necessary conditions for optimal controls to this problem in an appropriate extended form of…
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. Its flight is controlled either autonomously by computers onboard the vehicle, or remotely by a pilot on the ground, or by another vehicle. In recent years, UAVs have been used more commonly than pri…
This book covers: fault diagnosis, fault tolerant control, unmanned aerial vehicles, quadrotors, observer based control, service robots, nonlinear optimal control, robot manipulators, and industrial robotic systems.
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a search heuristic modeled on the processes of evolution. They have been used to solve optimisation problems in a wide variety of fields. When applied to the optimisation of intervention schedules for optimal control problems, such as cancer chemothe…
Control of the transition of laminar flow to turbulence would result in lower drag and reduced energy consumption in many engineering applications. A spectral state-space model of linearised plane Poiseuille flow with wall transpiration ac¬tuation and wall shear measurements is …
Cancer is a generic term for a large group of diseases where cells of the body lose their normal mechanisms for growth so that they grow in an uncontrolled way. One of the most common treatments of cancer is chemotherapy that aims to kill abnormal proliferating cells; however no…
The development of a vaccine against some strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) has led to many interesting public health questions [1]. We address some of these questions in the following work. We develop a compartmental mathematical model and examine the effect of waning i…
Waterflooding is a common type of oil recovery techniques where water is pumped into the reservoir for increased productivity. Reservoir states change with time, as such, different injection and production settings will be required to lead the process to optimal operation which …
Drawing upon a collection of research articles from celebrated authors in the field of control theory and its applications, this Festschrift honours the work of Professor Shinji Hara, and lays a solid foundation towards the 'glocal control' theory.
The book reviews developments in the following fields: optimal adaptive control; online differential games; reinforcement learning principles; and dynamic feedback control systems
The book reviews developments in the following fields: optimal adaptive control; online differential games; reinforcement learning principles; and dynamic feedback control systems.
"This book is devoted to geometric methods in the theory of differential equations with quadratic right-hand sides (Riccati-type equations), which are closely related to the calculus of variations and optimal control theory. Connections of the calculus of variations and the Ricc…
The following topics are dealt with: singular perturbation method; time-scale analysis; open loop optimal control; continuous system; discrete systems; closed loop optimal control; and other control theory
