Andreas Rauh - Böcker

This edited book presents recent advances in state estimation, robust control synthesis, system identification, fault detection, localization, and optimization, with a particular emphasis on interval-based methods and set-membership techniques. Covering both theoretical developments and practical applications, the book brings together contributions from recognized experts in these research areas.Topics include set-based state estimation in varied dynamical system settings, sliding-mode predictive and state-feedback control, innovative optimization algorithms, zonotopic fault detection and identification, as well as distributed moving horizon estimation. The proposed methods are illustrated through practical simulation studies in robotics, autonomous vehicles, fuel cell systems, and sensor networks.Intended for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in control systems, applied mathematics, and various engineering disciplines, this book offers both a rigorous foundation and cutting-edge approaches for addressing uncertainty in complex dynamical systems.

This Festschrift is dedicated to Martin Fränzle, a leading researcher in formal methods and cyber-physical systems. After an award-winning PhD at Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Prof. Fränzle has had roles as a researcher, associate professor, and guest professor at institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Oxford, and the Technical University of Denmark. In 2002 he was appointed a professor at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg where he leads the Cyber-Physical Systems research group.Prof. Fränzle’s expertise is in modelling, verification, and synthesis of reactive, real-time, and hybrid dynamics in embedded and cyber-physical systems. Among specific topics, he has worked on the semantics of high-level modelling and specification languages and on decision problems and their application to verifying and synthesizing real-time and hybrid discrete-continuous systems. He has led major national and international interdisciplinary projects, in both foundational and applied research, recent domains include critical systems engineering for sociotechnical systems and the safety impacts for maritime and road transportation. He has published conference papers and journal articles with over 200 researchers, collaborating with both academics and industry engineers and scientists, and his impact and achievements are reflected in the contributions in this volume.

This edited book aims at presenting current research activities in the field of robust variable-structure systems. The scope equally comprises highlighting novel methodological aspects as well as presenting the use of variable-structure techniques in industrial applications including their efficient implementation on hardware for real-time control. The target audience primarily comprises research experts in the field of control theory and nonlinear dynamics but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.

This edited book aims at presenting current research activities in the field of robust variable-structure systems. The scope equally comprises highlighting novel methodological aspects as well as presenting the use of variable-structure techniques in industrial applications including their efficient implementation on hardware for real-time control.

To describe the true behavior of most real-world systems with sufficient accuracy, engineers have to overcome difficulties arising from their lack of knowledge about certain parts of a process or from the impossibility of characterizing it with absolute certainty. Depending on the application at hand, uncertainties in modeling and measurements can be represented in different ways. For example, bounded uncertainties can be described by intervals, affine forms or general polynomial enclosures such as Taylor models, whereas stochastic uncertainties can be characterized in the form of a distribution described, for example, by the mean value, the standard deviation and higher-order moments. The goal of this Special Volume on Modeling, Design, and Simulation of Systems with Uncertainties is to cover modern methods for dealing with the challenges presented by imprecise or unavailable information. All contributions tackle the topic from the point of view of control, state and parameter estimation, optimization and simulation. Thematically, this volume can be divided into two parts. In the first we present works highlighting the theoretic background and current research on algorithmic approaches in the field of uncertainty handling, together with their reliable software implementation. The second part is concerned with real-life application scenarios from various areas including but not limited to mechatronics, robotics, and biomedical engineering.

To describe the true behavior of most real-world systems with sufficient accuracy, engineers have to overcome difficulties arising from their lack of knowledge about certain parts of a process or from the impossibility of characterizing it with absolute certainty. Depending on the application at hand, uncertainties in modeling and measurements can be represented in different ways. For example, bounded uncertainties can be described by intervals, affine forms or general polynomial enclosures such as Taylor models, whereas stochastic uncertainties can be characterized in the form of a distribution described, for example, by the mean value, the standard deviation and higher-order moments. The goal of this Special Volume on Modeling, Design, and Simulation of Systems with Uncertainties is to cover modern methods for dealing with the challenges presented by imprecise or unavailable information. All contributions tackle the topic from the point of view of control, state and parameter estimation, optimization and simulation. Thematically, this volume can be divided into two parts. In the first we present works highlighting the theoretic background and current research on algorithmic approaches in the field of uncertainty handling, together with their reliable software implementation. The second part is concerned with real-life application scenarios from various areas including but not limited to mechatronics, robotics, and biomedical engineering.