Artificial Neural Networks - Industrial and Control Engineering Applications

Edited by: Kenji Suzuki



ISBN 978-953-307-220-3, Hard cover, 478 pages

Publisher: InTech

Publication date: April 2011

Artificial neural
networks may probably be the single most successful technology in the
last two decades which has been widely used in a large variety of
applications. The purpose of this book is to provide recent advances of
artificial neural networks in industrial and control engineering
applications. The book begins with a review of applications of
artificial neural networks in textile industries. Particular
applications in textile industries follow. Parts continue with
applications in materials science and industry such as material
identification, and estimation of material property and state, food
industry such as meat, electric and power industry such as batteries and
power systems, mechanical engineering such as engines and machines, and
control and robotic engineering such as system control and
identification, fault diagnosis systems, and robot manipulation. Thus,
this book will be a fundamental source of recent advances and
applications of artificial neural networks in industrial and control
engineering areas. The target audience includes professors and students
in engineering schools, and researchers and engineers in industries.

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Advances in Flight Control Systems

Edited by: Agneta Balint



ISBN 978-953-307-218-0, Hard cover, 296 pages

Publisher: InTech

Publication date: April 2011

Nonlinear problems
in flight control have stimulated cooperation among engineers and
scientists from a range of disciplines. Developments in computer
technology allowed for numerical solutions of nonlinear control
problems, while industrial recognition and applications of nonlinear
mathematical models in solving technological problems is increasing. The
aim of the book Advances in Flight Control Systems is to bring together
reputable researchers from different countries in order to provide a
comprehensive coverage of advanced and modern topics in flight control
not yet reflected by other books. This product comprises 14
contributions submitted by 38 authors from 11 different countries and
areas. It covers most of the currents main streams of flight control
researches, ranging from adaptive flight control mechanism, fault
tolerant flight control, acceleration based flight control, helicopter
flight control, comparison of flight control systems and fundamentals.
According to these themes the contributions are grouped in six
categories, corresponding to six parts of the book.

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Robust Control, Theory and Applications

Edited by: Andrzej Bartoszewicz



ISBN 978-953-307-229-6, Hard cover, 678 pages

Publisher: InTech

Publication date: April 2011

The main objective
of this monograph is to present a broad range of well worked out,
recent theoretical and application studies in the field of robust
control system analysis and design. The contributions presented here
include but are not limited to robust PID, H-infinity, sliding mode,
fault tolerant, fuzzy and QFT based control systems. They advance the
current progress in the field, and motivate and encourage new ideas and
solutions in the robust control area.

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Sliding Mode Control

Edited by: Andrzej Bartoszewicz



ISBN 978-953-307-162-6, Hard cover, 544 pages

Publisher: InTech

Publication date: April 2011

The main objective
of this monograph is to present a broad range of well worked out,
recent application studies as well as theoretical contributions in the
field of sliding mode control system analysis and design. The
contributions presented here include new theoretical developments as
well as successful applications of variable structure controllers
primarily in the field of power electronics, electric drives and motion
steering systems. They enrich the current state of the art, and motivate
and encourage new ideas and solutions in the sliding mode control area.

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PID Control, Implementation and Tuning

Edited by: Tamer Mansour



ISBN 978-953-307-166-4, Hard cover, 238 pages

Publisher: InTech

Publication date: April 2011

The PID controller
is considered the most widely used controller. It has numerous
applications varying from industrial to home appliances. This book is an
outcome of contributions and inspirations from many researchers in the
field of PID control. The book consists of two parts; the first is
related to the implementation of PID control in various applications
whilst the second part concentrates on the tuning of PID control to get
best performance. We hope that this book can be a valuable aid for new
research in the field of PID control in addition to stimulating the
research in the area of PID control toward better utilization in our
life.

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Discrete Time Systems

Edited by: Mario Alberto Jordán



ISBN 978-953-307-200-5, Hard cover, 526 pages

Publisher: InTech

Publication date: April 2011

Discrete-Time
Systems comprehend an important and broad research field. The
consolidation of digital-based computational means in the present,
pushes a technological tool into the field with a tremendous impact in
areas like Control, Signal Processing, Communications, System Modelling
and related Applications.

This book attempts to give a scope in the wide area of Discrete-Time
Systems. Their contents are grouped conveniently in sections according
to significant areas, namely Filtering, Fixed and Adaptive Control
Systems, Stability Problems and Miscellaneous Applications.

We think that the contribution of the book enlarges the field of the
Discrete-Time Systems with signification in the present
state-of-the-art. Despite the vertiginous advance in the field, we also
believe that the topics described here allow us also to look through
some main tendencies in the next years in the research area.

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Advances in PID Control

Edited by: Valery D. Yurkevich



ISBN 978-953-307-267-8, Hard cover, 274 pages

Publisher: InTech

Publication date: September 2011

Since the
foundation and up to the current state-of-the-art in control
engineering, the problems of PID control steadily attract great
attention of numerous researchers and remain inexhaustible source of new
ideas for process of control system design and industrial applications.
PID control effectiveness is usually caused by the nature of dynamical
processes, conditioned that the majority of the industrial dynamical
processes are well described by simple dynamic model of the first or
second order. The efficacy of PID controllers vastly falls in case of
complicated dynamics, nonlinearities, and varying parameters of the
plant. This gives a pulse to further researches in the field of PID
control. Consequently, the problems of advanced PID control system
design methodologies, rules of adaptive PID control, self-tuning
procedures, and particularly robustness and transient performance for
nonlinear systems, still remain as the areas of the lively interests for
many scientists and researchers at the present time. The recent
research results presented in this book provide new ideas for improved
performance of PID control applications.

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