"Each of this handbook's 35 chapters is an independent article written by one or more authors. The editors gathered these articles and arranged them in six topical groups. Although the self-contained articles vary somewhat in format, most begin with an overview of their contents, conclude with a summary, and provide an extensive reference list. There is greater variety in content, ranging from theoretical to practical. Several articles feature illustrative case studies. The six article groupings are "Fundamentals," "Hardware," "Software," "Theory," "Networking," and "Applications." As these headings imply, the articles cover a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art embedded control systems, related networking, and tools-of-the-trade topics. Though primarily a resource book intended for control system researchers and practitioners, it can serve as a course resource or supplemental reading for an upper-level undergraduate- or master's-level control systems course. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." -Choice "The Handbook provides engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, and students a broad, comprehensive source of information and technology to address many questions and aspects of embedded and networked control. A carefully organized collection of important results, tools, software, and technology, this work unifies into a single reference many scattered articles, websites, and specification sheets-information that might otherwise be difficult to find." -Zentralblatt MATH

• Fundamentals.- Fundamentals of Dynamical Systems.- Control of Single-Input Single-Output Systems.- Basics of Sampling and Quantization.- Discrete-Event Systems.- to Hybrid Systems.- Finite Automata.- Basics of Computer Architecture.- Real-Time Scheduling for Embedded Systems.- Network Fundamentals.- Hardware.- Basics of Data Acquisition and Control.- Programmable Logic Controllers.- Digital Signal Processors.- Microcontrollers.- SOPCs: Systems on Programmable Chips.- Software.- Fundamentals of RTOS-Based Digital Controller Implementation.- Implementation-Aware Embedded Control Systems.- From Control Loops to Real-Time Programs.- Embedded Real-Time Control via MATLAB, Simulink, and xPC Target.- Lab VIEW Real-Time for Networked/Embedded Control.- Control Loops in RTLinux.- Theory.- An Introduction to Hybrid Automata.- An Overview of Hybrid Systems Control.- Temporal Logic Model Checking.- Switched Systems.- Feedback Control with Communication Constraints.- Networked Control Systems: A Model-Based Approach.- Control Issues in Systems with Loop Delays.- Networking.- Network Protocols for Networked Control Systems.- Control Using Feedback over Wireless Ethernet and Bluetooth.- Bluetooth in Control.- Embedded Sensor Networks.- Applications.- Vehicle Applications of Controller Area Network.- Control of Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Wireless Control with Bluetooth.- The Cornell RoboCup Robot Soccer Team: 1999–2003.

"Each of this handbook's 35 chapters is an independent article written by one or more authors. The editors gathered these articles and arranged them in six topical groups. Although the self-contained articles vary somewhat in format, most begin with an overview of their contents, conclude with a summary, and provide an extensive reference list. There is greater variety in content, ranging from theoretical to practical. Several articles feature illustrative case studies. The six article groupings are "Fundamentals," "Hardware," "Software," "Theory," "Networking," and "Applications." As these headings imply, the articles cover a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art embedded control systems, related networking, and tools-of-the-trade topics. Though primarily a resource book intended for control system researchers and practitioners, it can serve as a course resource or supplemental reading for an upper-level undergraduate- or master's-level control systems course. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." -Choice "The Handbook provides engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, and students a broad, comprehensive source of information and technology to address many questions and aspects of embedded and networked control. A carefully organized collection of important results, tools, software, and technology, this work unifies into a single reference many scattered articles, websites, and specification sheets-information that might otherwise be difficult to find." -Zentralblatt MATH

• Fundamentals.- Fundamentals of Dynamical Systems.- Control of Single-Input Single-Output Systems.- Basics of Sampling and Quantization.- Discrete-Event Systems.- to Hybrid Systems.- Finite Automata.- Basics of Computer Architecture.- Real-Time Scheduling for Embedded Systems.- Network Fundamentals.- Hardware.- Basics of Data Acquisition and Control.- Programmable Logic Controllers.- Digital Signal Processors.- Microcontrollers.- SOPCs: Systems on Programmable Chips.- Software.- Fundamentals of RTOS-Based Digital Controller Implementation.- Implementation-Aware Embedded Control Systems.- From Control Loops to Real-Time Programs.- Embedded Real-Time Control via MATLAB, Simulink, and xPC Target.- Lab VIEW Real-Time for Networked/Embedded Control.- Control Loops in RTLinux.- Theory.- An Introduction to Hybrid Automata.- An Overview of Hybrid Systems Control.- Temporal Logic Model Checking.- Switched Systems.- Feedback Control with Communication Constraints.- Networked Control Systems: A Model-Based Approach.- Control Issues in Systems with Loop Delays.- Networking.- Network Protocols for Networked Control Systems.- Control Using Feedback over Wireless Ethernet and Bluetooth.- Bluetooth in Control.- Embedded Sensor Networks.- Applications.- Vehicle Applications of Controller Area Network.- Control of Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Wireless Control with Bluetooth.- The Cornell RoboCup Robot Soccer Team: 1999–2003.

"Each of this handbook's 35 chapters is an independent article written by one or more authors. The editors gathered these articles and arranged them in six topical groups. Although the self-contained articles vary somewhat in format, most begin with an overview of their contents, conclude with a summary, and provide an extensive reference list. There is greater variety in content, ranging from theoretical to practical. Several articles feature illustrative case studies. The six article groupings are "Fundamentals," "Hardware," "Software," "Theory," "Networking," and "Applications." As these headings imply, the articles cover a broad spectrum of state-of-the-art embedded control systems, related networking, and tools-of-the-trade topics. Though primarily a resource book intended for control system researchers and practitioners, it can serve as a course resource or supplemental reading for an upper-level undergraduate- or master's-level control systems course. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals." -Choice "The Handbook provides engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, and students a broad, comprehensive source of information and technology to address many questions and aspects of embedded and networked control. A carefully organized collection of important results, tools, software, and technology, this work unifies into a single reference many scattered articles, websites, and specification sheets-information that might otherwise be difficult to find." -Zentralblatt MATH

• Fundamentals.- Fundamentals of Dynamical Systems.- Control of Single-Input Single-Output Systems.- Basics of Sampling and Quantization.- Discrete-Event Systems.- to Hybrid Systems.- Finite Automata.- Basics of Computer Architecture.- Real-Time Scheduling for Embedded Systems.- Network Fundamentals.- Hardware.- Basics of Data Acquisition and Control.- Programmable Logic Controllers.- Digital Signal Processors.- Microcontrollers.- SOPCs: Systems on Programmable Chips.- Software.- Fundamentals of RTOS-Based Digital Controller Implementation.- Implementation-Aware Embedded Control Systems.- From Control Loops to Real-Time Programs.- Embedded Real-Time Control via MATLAB, Simulink, and xPC Target.- Lab VIEW Real-Time for Networked/Embedded Control.- Control Loops in RTLinux.- Theory.- An Introduction to Hybrid Automata.- An Overview of Hybrid Systems Control.- Temporal Logic Model Checking.- Switched Systems.- Feedback Control with Communication Constraints.- Networked Control Systems: A Model-Based Approach.- Control Issues in Systems with Loop Delays.- Networking.- Network Protocols for Networked Control Systems.- Control Using Feedback over Wireless Ethernet and Bluetooth.- Bluetooth in Control.- Embedded Sensor Networks.- Applications.- Vehicle Applications of Controller Area Network.- Control of Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Wireless Control with Bluetooth.- The Cornell RoboCup Robot Soccer Team: 1999–2003.