This volume provides a general picture of the current trends in the area of automatic control, with particular emphasis on practical problems in the mechanical field. For this reason, besides theoretical contributions, it presents selected lectures on recent developments interesting from an industrial point of view, such as automotive, robotics, motion control, and electrical drives.Sample Chapter(s)

This book provides a clear, understandable, and motivated account on the subject that spans both conventional and modern materials about discrete event systems, material that, up to now, has been presented in the literature in different fields, such as the graph theory, the probability theory, the automata's theory, and the queueing theory. The book gives a complete introduction to the discrete-event system theory and simultaneously applies the theory to practical problems. The book gives students of computer sciences, system sciences, and of electrical engineering, a clear, unambiguous, and relevant account of discrete-event systems. Numerous illustrations are included for better understanding. Problems as well as their solutions are included in each chapter. It can be used as a basic introduction for undergraduates and graduate students. Although it is logically self-contained, it presupposes the mathematical maturity acquired by students with two years of calculus.

This volume provides doctorate students and professionals with basic and advanced material on modelling and control of complex mechanical systems, with particular emphasis on robotic manipulators.

This book covers selected topics in geometry, algebra, calculus and probability theory. It contains the basic mathematical notions required by a first course in system theory for engineering and applied mathematics students. It is the first book to provide a self-contained and precise account of all the major mathematical methods and concepts relevant to the study of system theory.

This volume provides a general picture of the current trends in the area of automatic control, with particular emphasis on practical problems in the mechanical field. For this reason, besides theoretical contributions, it presents selected lectures on recent developments interesting from an industrial point of view, such as automotive, robotics, motion control, and electrical drives.Sample Chapter(s)

This book provides a clear, understandable, and motivated account on the subject that spans both conventional and modern materials about discrete event systems, material that, up to now, has been presented in the literature in different fields, such as the graph theory, the probability theory, the automata's theory, and the queueing theory. The book gives a complete introduction to the discrete-event system theory and simultaneously applies the theory to practical problems. The book gives students of computer sciences, system sciences, and of electrical engineering, a clear, unambiguous, and relevant account of discrete-event systems. Numerous illustrations are included for better understanding. Problems as well as their solutions are included in each chapter. It can be used as a basic introduction for undergraduates and graduate students. Although it is logically self-contained, it presupposes the mathematical maturity acquired by students with two years of calculus.

This volume provides doctorate students and professionals with basic and advanced material on modelling and control of complex mechanical systems, with particular emphasis on robotic manipulators.

This book covers selected topics in geometry, algebra, calculus and probability theory. It contains the basic mathematical notions required by a first course in system theory for engineering and applied mathematics students. It is the first book to provide a self-contained and precise account of all the major mathematical methods and concepts relevant to the study of system theory.