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Control and Dynamic Systems V56: Digital and Numeric Techniques and Their Application in Control Systems

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 56: Digital and Numeric Techniques and their Applications in Control Systems, Part 2 of 2 covers the significant developments in digital and numerical techniques for the analysis and design of modern complex control systems.  This volume is composed of 12 chapters and starts with a description of the design techniques of linear constrained discrete-time control systems. The subsequent chapters describe the techniques dealing with robust real-time system identification, the adaptive control algorithms, and the utilization of methods from generalized interpolation and operator theory to deal with a wide range of problems in robust control. These topics are followed by reviews f the decentralized control design for interconnected uncertain systems; the computation of frequency response of descriptor systems by rational interpolation; the techniques for the synthesis of multivariable feedback control laws; and the effect of the initial condition in state estimation for discrete-time linear systems. Other chapters illustrate practical, efficient, and reliable numerical algorithms for robust multivariable control design of linear time-invariant systems, as well as a complete analysis of closed-loop transfer recovery in discrete-time systems using observer-based controllers. The last chapters provide the techniques in robust policy-making in the global economic environment and the implications of robust control techniques for continuous-time systems.  This book will prove useful to process, control, systems, and design engineers.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V51: Robust Control System Techniques and Applications

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Application, Volume 51: Robust Control System Techniques and Applications Part 2 of 2 discusses system robustness techniques.  This volume presents a comprehensive treatment of robust system techniques in nonlinear, linear, and multilinear interval systems. It also covers techniques for dealing with system disturbances, system modeling approximations, and parameter uncertainties. This volume ends by reviewing robustness techniques for systems with structured state space uncertainty.  This volume will be of great use as a reference source for mechanical and electrical engineers.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V55: Digital and Numeric Techniques and Their Application in Control Systems

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory Applications, Volume 55: Digital and Numeric Techniques and their Applications in Control Systems, Part 1 of 2 covers advances in numerical and computational techniques for the design of modern complex control systems.  This book presents a comprehensive treatment of the many issues that are dealt with in modern complex systems. It discusses the efficacy of significant techniques for robust control design; model reduction; adaptive estimation of discrete-time stochastic systems; parameter estimation; and loop transfer recovery.  Students, research workers, and practising engineers will find this book invaluable.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V46: Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 46: Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies, Part 2 of 5 covers the significant advances and issues on the utilization of techniques and technologies in the manufacturing industries.  This volume is divided into nine chapters and starts with the essential issue of software in manufacturing systems, particularly the aspects of the control software that are active in the time-critical or real time portions of the machine's operation. The succeeding chapters deal with the interactions between material-handling systems and other components of manufacturing systems; the principles of flexible manufacturing systems; the various views on the contributions of mechatronics; and the techniques for machine layout optimization in manufacturing and automation systems. These topics are followed by discussions of the application of a real-time control system to address issues of safety, productivity advances, and production cost reductions. Other chapters consider the influence of human supervisory control of predominantly automated manufacturing processes and the techniques for the manufacturing systems integration. The final chapter examines the major importance of the assembly line balancing to manufacturing systems.  This book is of great value to process and mechanical engineers, as well as process control workers and researchers.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V53: High Performance Systems Techniques and Applications

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 53: High Performance Systems Techniques and Applications covers the significant research works on the issues and applications of high performance control systems techniques.  This book is divided into 11 chapters and starts with an examination of the contribution of computing power with advances in theory in global optimization. The next chapters present robust solution techniques for combined filtering and parameter estimation in discrete time and the design and analysis of model reference adaptive control techniques for both continuous and discrete time multivariable plants with additive and multiplicative unmodeled dynamics. These topics are followed by discussions of the decentralized adaptive control; robust recursive estimation of states and parameters of bilinear systems; the design of robust control systems under uncertainty cases; and the techniques for state estimation for linear stationary dynamic systems that are subject to unknown time varying plant and output disturbances. Other chapters deal with the sliding control algorithm, the techniques in robust broadband beamforming, and the different categories of robust robotic controllers. The final chapter looks into the problems and issues of performance and versatility of non-linear control and the application of artificial neural networks.  This book is of great value to process, control, mechanical, and design engineers.

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Relative Radiation Sensitivities of Human Organ Systems. Part II

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Advances in Radiation Biology, Volume 14: Relative Radiation Sensitivities of Human Organ Systems, Part II focuses on radiation sensitivities of particular human organ systems. The sensitivities are then assessed based on the severity and the rapidity in which the effects of radiation manifest.   The opening chapter surveys the clinical and experimental data on approaches toward the prevention of bladder complications in clinical radiotherapy. A discussion on HeLa cells, which are of special importance in human cervical cancer therapy, is then presented. In presenting this topic, this book emphasizes radiation sensitivity and radiobiology of tumors of the cervix of the female genital tract. Chapter 3 briefly covers imaging techniques for hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction diagnosis and introduces hormonal therapy for remarkable improvements in both physical and mental status of patients. The subsequent chapters discuss basic radiobiology of the thyroid in experimental animal and the late effects of therapeutic and low-level radiation in humans. The radiation damages in bone and cartilage and the changes occurring in the various types of vessels during radiation therapy are also discussed.  Chapter 7 presents the basic biology of spermatogenesis, as it applies to the understanding of radiation effects. This chapter also explains the studies of rodents, as it applies to subhuman primates and to man. Moreover, it considers as well the mechanisms of radiation damage to the testis, as elucidated by experimental studies of rodents and subhuman primates. Finally, it presents the limited data available on man and discusses these data in terms of the biology of the system known from experimental studies. The concluding chapter describes the features of radiation-induced hepatic injury, ranging from asymptomatic biochemical or a radiographic abnormality to fulminant, fatal hepatic failure.   Radiation biologists will greatly benefit from this book, especially those who are involved in dose fractionation in radiation therapy.

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Advances in Magnetic Resonance: The Waugh Symposium, Volume 14 is a collection of manuscripts presented at the 1989 symposium on High Resolution NMR in Solids, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The contributors provide 20- to 30-page articles consistent with AMRs traditional emphasis on quantitative analysis of NMR techniques.  Organized into 13 chapters, this book discusses the principles triple-quantum filtered two-dimensional exchange spectroscopy and its application in the measurement of cross correlation between pairs of dipole-dipole interactions. It then describes alternative ways of using fictitious spin in pulsed nuclear quadrupole resonance or NMR. General topics on the application of optical spectroscopy; the saturation of spin-spin energy by slow continuous bulk rotation; the frequency-switched Lee-Goldburg pulse cycle; and high-resolution proton NMR in solid systems are also explored. A chapter examines an entirely different view of spin dynamics in the presence of radio-frequency fields. This book also deals with the theoretical background and application of solid-state and zero-field NMR spectroscopies to structure determination. Lastly, the utilization of the Floquet formalism in the design of broadband propagators in two-level systems and the two classes of novel NMR phenomena related to the symmetrization postulate are discussed.  Analytical and quantum chemists, physicists, biochemists, and materials science researchers will find this book invaluable.

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Extended Icosahedral Structures discusses the concepts about crystal structures with extended icosahedral symmetry. This book is organized into six chapters that focus on actual modeling of extended icosahedral crystal structures.  This text first presents a tiling approach to the modeling of icosahedral quasiperiodic crystals. It then describes the models for icosahedral alloys based on random connections between icosahedral units, with particular emphasis on diffraction properties. Other chapters examine the glassy structures with only icosahedral orientational order and the extent of translational order in such structures relates to the nature of their growth. Lastly, the use of the polytope concept to rationalize and construct real structures with varying degrees of icosahedral order is addressed.  This book is of great value to physicists, crystallographers, metallurgists, and beginners in the field of quasicrystals.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V49: Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 49: Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies, Part 5 of 5 discusses advances in techniques and technologies in manufacturing and automation systems.

This volume first provides insights on some limitations in machine functions such as computational processes. It then describes fundamental techniques in manufacturing and automation systems such as neural network techniques; techniques used in the agricultural industry; modeling and simulation; knowledge-based simulation environment techniques; detection of faults; computer-assisted tomography and finite element modeling; and sensor integration. This book will provide a uniquely significant reference for practising engineers looking for a comprehensive treatment of techniques and technologies in manufacturing and automation system.
Covers many advanced topics Provides a uniquely significant reference for practising engineers looking for a comprehensive treatment of techniques and technologies in manufacturing and automation system

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Control and Dynamic Systems V41: Analysis and Control System Techniques for Electric Power Systems Part 1 of 4

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Analysis and Control System Techniques for Electric Power Systems, Part 1 is the first volume of a four volume sequence in this series devoted to the significant theme of ""Analysis and Control Techniques for Electric Power Systems."" The broad topics involved include transmission line and transformer modeling. Since the issues in these two fields are rather well in hand, although advances continue to be made, this four volume sequence will focus on advances in areas including power flow analysis, economic operation of power systems, generator modeling, power system stability, voltage and power control techniques, and system protection, among others.  This book comprises seven chapters, with the first focusing on modern approaches to modeling and control of electric power systems. Succeeding chapters then discuss dynamic state estimation techniques for large-scale electric power systems; optimal power how algorithms; sparsity in large-scale network computation; techniques for decentralized control for interconnected systems; knowledge based systems for power system security assessment; and neural networks and their application to power engineering.  This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of electrical and computer engineering.

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Immunomodulation in Domestic Food Animals

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Advances in Veterinary Science and Comparative Medicine

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Immunomodulation in Domestic Food Animals covers the developments in the immunology and regulation of the immune response in domestic food animals. This book is organized into four parts encompassing 12 chapters that describe numerous factors affecting an immune response of animals and the management of these factors for food animal production. Part I provides an overview of the basic concepts of immunomodulation and the rationale for manipulating the immune response in food animals. Part II contains information on immunopotentiation using chemicals and a thorough discussion of adjuvant use. The molecular biology and in vivo use of cytokines in food animals is presented in Part III. Lastly, Part IV discusses physiologically regulated immunomodulation, including nutritional modulation of the immune response and neuroendocrine-immune interactions. This book is of great value to immunologists, microbiologists, and feed scientists and researchers.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V31: Advances in Aerospace Systems Dynamics and Control Systems Part 1 of 3

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory in Applications, Volume 31: Advances in Aerospace Systems Dynamics and Control Systems, Part 1 of 3 deals with significant advances in technologies which support the development of aerospace systems. It also presents several algorithms and computational techniques used in complex aerospace systems.  The techniques discussed in this volume include: moving-bank multiple model adaptive estimation, algorithms for multitarget sensor tracking systems; algorithms in differential dynamic programming; optimal control of linear stochastic systems; and normalized predictive deconvulation.  This book is an important reference for practitioners in the field who want a comprehensive source of techniques with significant applied implications.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V35: Advances in Control Mechanics Part 2 of 2

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Advances in Control Mechanics is based on a National Science Foundation-Sponsored Workshop on Control Mechanics, i.e., control system development using analytical methods of mechanics and active control of mechanical systems. Publication of the presentations at this workshop in this Academic Press series has made it possible to expand them into a format which will facilitate the study and utilization of their significant results by working professionals and research workers on the international scene.  This book comprises 13 chapters, with the first focusing on recursive Lyapunov functions, particularly their properties and linear systems. Succeeding chapters tackle topics such as the Lyapunov functional approach to uncertain systems governed by functional differential equations with finite time-lag; and stabilizing discrete control laws for Hamiltonian systems. Other chapters cover component model reduction in canonical correlation coordinates; controlling a flexible plate to mimic a rigid one; the modal stability of imperfect cyclic systems; and simultaneous stabilization via low order controllers. The remaining chapters discuss the use of Liapunov techniques for collision-avoidance of robot arms; avoidance control of a two-point mechanical system; coordination controllers for multi-arm manipulators; MRAC techniques with application to robot manipulators; optimal preview controllers based upon explicit trajectory models; and analysis of a robot dragline for mining.  This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of engineering and aeronautics.

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Application, Volume 26: System Identification and Adaptive Control, Part 2 of 3 deals with system parameter identification and adaptive control. It presents useful techniques for effective stochastic adaptive control systems.  This volume presents a powerful technique for identifying discrete time and continuous time linear time-invariant multivariable systems. It also includes the use of identifiable representations for linear multivariable systems; parametric identification of transfer functions of linear system; compares model reference adaptive control and model identification control; estimation of transfer function models; multivariable self-tuning control; and covariance analysis. This volume ends with powerful techniques for adaptive control for stochastic linear systems.   This text is of great value to practitioners in the field who want a comprehensive reference source of techniques with significant applied implications.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V37: Advances in Industrial Systems

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Control and Dynamic Systems, Volume 37: Advances in Industrial Systems provides an overview of the state of knowledge in industrial systems. This volume contains nine chapters and begins with a paper on the objective measures used to characterize the performance of computers which control critical processes. This is followed by separate chapters on the design of automotive power train control systems; control techniques in the pulp and paper industry; developments production scheduling research and practice; a general model-based failure detection and diagnosis methodology; and the application of model-predictive control techniques to problems with several input and output variables. Subsequent chapters deal with techniques for dealing with the problem of providing a complete, coherent, and reliable data base from a collection of switch and breaker status data and measurements; systematic approaches to modifying a finite element model; and optimization techniques in industrial chemical systems. The contributions in this volume will provide a unique and significant reference source for practicing professionals as well as those involved with advancing the state of the art.

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High Resolution NMR in Solids Selective Averaging

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Supplement 1 Advances in Magnetic Resonance

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High Resolution NMR in Solids: Selective Averaging presents the principles and applications of the four approaches to high resolution NMR in solids  magic-angle sample spinning, multiple-pulse, proton-enhanced nuclear induction, and indirect detection methods.  Divided into six chapters, this book initially describes the tensorial properties of nuclear spin interactions in both ordinary and spin spaces. It then deals with the manifestations of nuclear magnetic shielding in NMR spectra of both single-crystal and powder samples, and then discusses the techniques for analyzing spectra and rotation patterns in terms of shielding tensors. A wide range of NMR phenomena that are result of intentional or natural, selective or unselective averaging processes and the average Hamiltonian theory that yields the inclusion of correction are covered. This book also provides a detailed discussion on multiple-pulse sequences intended for high resolution NMR in solids. The concluding chapter examines the applications of multiple-pulse techniques, with particular emphasis on measurements of 19F and 1H shielding tensors. Discussions on rotations of angular momentum operators; time ordering and the Magnus expansion; off-resonance averaging of the second-order dipolar Hamiltonian; and phase transients are covered in the supplemental texts.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V47: Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 47: Manufacturing and Automation Systems: Techniques and Technologies, Part 3 of 5 deals with techniques and technologies in manufacturing and automation systems.   This book discusses techniques in modeling and control policies for production networks; effective planning and control of day-to-day operations; evaluation of automated manufacturing systems; the use of Petri Nets in modeling, control and performance analysis of automated manufacturing systems; and concurrent engineering and evaluation of concurrency in engineering design. The final chapter discusses the algorithm for solving allocation problems.  This book will provide a uniquely significant reference source for practitioners in the field who want a comprehensive source of techniques with significant applied implications.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V42: Analysis and Control System Techniques for Electric Power Systems Part 2

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Applications, Volume 42: Analysis and Control System Techniques for Electric Power Systems, Part 2 of 4 covers the research studies on the significant advances in areas including economic operation of power systems and voltage and power control techniques.  This book is composed of eight chapters and begins with a survey of the application of parallel processing to power system analysis as motivated by the requirement for faster computation. The next chapters deal with the issues of power system protection from a system point of view, the voltage stability phenomenon, and an overview of the techniques used in the reliability evaluation of large electric power systems. These chapters also look into the reliability assessment of bulk power systems, which are the composite of generation and high-voltage transmission, often called composite systems. These topics are followed by investigations of the potential of integer quadratic optimization to improve efficiency in a radial electric distribution system through the coordination of switched capacitors and regulators. Other chapters consider the issues of the optimal operation of a power system that are substantially complicated as a result of the large system scale nature of these issues. The final chapters explore the techniques for achieving requisite speed improvements that are essential to electric power systems and the problems on effective methods in hydro optimization.  This book will be of value to electrical engineers, designers, and researchers.

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Control and Dynamic Systems V44: Analysis and Control System Techniques for Electric Power Systems Part 4 of 4

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Analysis and Control System Techniques for Electric Power Systems, Part 4 is the fourth volume of a four volume sequence in this series devoted to the significant theme of ""Analysis and Control Techniques for Electric Power Systems."" The broad topics involved include transmission line and transformer modeling. Since the issues in these two fields are rather well in hand, although advances continue to be made, this four volume sequence will focus on advances in areas including power flow analysis, economic operation of power systems, generator modeling, power system stability, voltage and power control techniques, and system protection, among others.  This book comprises seven chapters, with the first focusing on computer relaying in power systems. Succeeding chapters then discuss advanced control techniques for high performance electric drives; high voltage outdoor insulation technology; and power system generation expansion planning using the maximum principle and analytical production cost model. Other chapters cover development of expert systems and their learning capability for power system applications; advances in fast power flow algorithms; and power systems state estimation based on least absolute value (LAV).  This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of electrical and computer engineering.

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Control and Dynamic Systems: Advances in Theory and Application, Volume 15 deals with the application of control and dynamic systems to complex and/or large-scale engineering systems. It presents various techniques for approaching applied systems problems.  This book first discusses optimization policies for clinical drug prescription. It then turns to the methods of modeling chemical engineering systems and water resource systems. This book also examines the optimization of large scale structures and advances in linear adaptive filtering theory.  This book is a useful reference for those seeking a comprehensive text about optimization techniques for chemical engineering systems and large-scale systems.