Contents

Preface
Contributors
 

1. Regulation Control of Discrete Event Systems for Industrial Automation

1.1. Introduction
1.2. Interpreted Petri Nets
1.3. Regulation Control Framework
1.4. Plant Construction
1.5. Specification Construction
1.6. Control Synthesis
1.7. Towards Decentralized Control
1.8. Conclusions and Future Work
Acknowledgements
References

2. Analytical Modelling of ‘Linear’ and Circular Control Stochastic Systems

2.1. Introduction
2.2. Analytical Modeling of CStS in Rn
2.3. Analytical Modelling Circular CStS
2.4. Analytical Modelling of Specific CStS
2.5. Applications. Analytical Modelling of Information-Control System at Shock Disturbances
2.6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix 1. Statistical Linearization of Scalar Nonlinearities
Appendix 2. Statistical Linearization of Scalar Circular Nonlinearities

3. Model Predictive Control of Solar Cooling Plants: Review and Applications

3.1. Introduction
3.2. State of the Art
3.3. Plant Description
3.4. Modelling of the Plant Subsystems
3.5. Model Predictive Control Algorithm for the Fresnel Solar Collector Field
3.6. Hybrid Control of the Solar Cooling Plant
3.7. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References

4. On Approximate Solutions for Partially Observable Decision Problems

4.1. Introduction
4.2. Optimal Switching
4.3. Approximate Solutions
4.4. Examples
References
Appendix 1. Tiger Problem

5. Minimum Jerk Trajectory Generation for Straight and Curved Movements: Mathematical Analysis

5.1. Introduction
5.2. Minimum Jerk Trajectory for Unconstrained PTP Movement
5.3. Minimum Jerk Trajectory for Curved PTP Movement
5.4. MJT Applications
5.5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix 1. The MATLAB Code for Solving the Polynomial Equation


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