Software-enabled control : information technology for dynamical systems / edited by Tariq Samad and Gary Balas. - 1 PDF (xx, 419 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors. -- Preface. -- Introduction. -- The Sec Vision (H. Gill & J. Bay). -- Trends and Technologies For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (D. Van Cleave). -- Previewing the Software-Enabled Control Research Portfolio (T. Samad & G. Balas). -- II:�SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES FOR REAL-TIME CONTROL. -- Open Control Platform: A Software Platform Supporting Advances in UAV Control Technology (J. Paunicka, et al.). -- A Prototype Open Control Platform For Reconfigurable Control Systems (L. Wills,�et al.).� -- Real-Time Adaptive Resource Management for Multimodel Control (M. Agrawal,�et al.).� -- Heterogeneous Modeling and Design of Control Systems (X. Liu, et al.). -- Embedded Control Systems Development with Giotto (T. Henzinger, et al.). -- III: ONLINE�MODELING AND CONTROL. -- Online Control Customization Via Optimization-Based Control (R. Murray, et al.). -- Model Predictive Neural Control For Aggressive Helicop ter Maneuvers (E. Wan, et al.). -- Active Model Estimation For Complex Autonomous Systems (M. Campbell, et al.). -- An Intelligent Methodology For Real-Time Adaptive Mode Transitioning and Limit Avoidance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (G. Vachtsevanos, et al.).� -- Implementation of Online Control Customization Within the Open Control Platform (R. Bhattacharya & G. Balas). -- IV: HYBRID DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS. -- Hybrid Systems: Review and Recent Progress (P. Antsaklis & X. Koutsoukos). -- A Maneuver-Based Hybrid Control Architecture for Autonomous Vehicle Motion Planning (E. Frazzoli, et al.). -- Multimodal Control of Constrained Nonlinear Systems (T. Koo, et al.). -- Towards Fault-Adaptive Control of Complex Dynamical Systems (G. Karsai, et al.). -- Computational Tools For the Verification of Hybrid Systems (C. Tomlin, et al.). -- V: CONCLUSIONS. -- The Outlook For Software-Enabled Control (T. Samad & G. Balas). -- Index. -- About the Editors.

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. Discusses open systems, object orientation, software agents, domain-specific languages, component architectures, as well as the dramatic IT-enabled improvements in memory, communication, and processing resources that are now available for sophisticated control algorithms to exploit.. Useful for practitioners and researchers in the fields of real-time systems, aerospace engineering, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence.




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