Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals and Systems with Physical Modeling

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Modeling and Control of Multi-Body Mechanical Systems: Part I A Riemannian Geometry Approach....Pages 3-16
Modeling and Control of Multi-Body Mechanical Systems: Part II Grasping under Rolling Contacts between Arbitrary Shapes....Pages 17-29
Sliding Mode Control for a High-Speed Linear Axis Driven by Pneumatic Muscles....Pages 31-40
Using Hamiltonians to Model Saturation in Space Vector Representations of AC Electrical Machines....Pages 41-48
Iterative Learning Control Using Stochastic Approximation Theory with Application to a Mechatronic System....Pages 49-64
Elimination Theory for Nonlinear Parameter Estimation....Pages 65-75
Controlling Underactuated Mechanical Systems: A Review and Open Problems....Pages 77-88
Time Scaling in Motion Planning and Control of Tree-Like Pendulum Structures....Pages 89-98
Mechanical Version of the CRONE Suspension....Pages 99-112
Electrostatic MEMS: Modelling, Control, and Applications....Pages 113-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Flatness Characterization: Two Approaches....Pages 127-139
Nonholonomic Mechanics, Dissipation and Quantization....Pages 141-152
Controlled Lagrangians....Pages 153-159
Compensation of Input Delay for Linear, Nonlinear, Adaptive, and PDE Systems....Pages 161-178
Boundary Value Problems and Convolutional Systems over Rings of Ultradistributions....Pages 179-188
Wei-Norman Technique for Control Design of Bilinear ODE Systems with Application to Quantum Control....Pages 189-199
Interval Methods for Verification and Implementation of Robust Controllers....Pages 201-211
Rational Interpolation of Rigid-Body Motions....Pages 213-224
Contact Geometry and Its Application to Control....Pages 225-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Piecewise Affine Models of Regulatory Genetic Networks: Review and Probabilistic Interpretation....Pages 241-253
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
A Control Engineering Model for Resolving the TGF- β Paradox in Cancer....Pages 255-268
A Mathematical Model of Air-Flow Induced Regional Over-Distention during Mechanical Ventilation: Comparing Pressure-Controlled and Volume-Controlled Modes....Pages 269-281
Positive Feedbacks Contribute to the Robustness of the Cell Cycle with Respect to Molecular Noise....Pages 283-295
Guaranteed and Randomized Methods for Stability Analysis of Uncertain Metabolic Networks....Pages 297-307
Coexistence of Three Predators Competing for a Single Biotic Resource....Pages 309-321
Control Problems for One-Dimensional Fluids and Reactive Fluids with Moving Interfaces....Pages 323-337
A Port-Hamiltonian Formulation of Open Chemical Reaction Networks....Pages 339-348
Bifurcations of Dynamical Systems, Logistic and Gompertz Growth Laws in Processes of Aggregation....Pages 349-363
Global Uncertainty Analysis for a Model of TNF-Induced NF- κ B Signalling....Pages 365-377
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