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Complex systems. Relationships between control, communications and computing. (English) Zbl 1339.93002

Studies in Systems, Decision and Control 55. Cham: Springer (ISBN 978-3-319-28858-1/hbk; 978-3-319-28860-4/ebook). lxxvi, 652 p. (2016).
Publisher’s description: This book gives a wide-ranging description of the many facets of complex dynamic networks and systems within an infrastructure provided by integrated control and supervision: envisioning, design, experimental exploration, and implementation. The theoretical contributions and the case studies presented can reach control goals beyond those of stabilization and output regulation or even of adaptive control.
Reporting on work of the Control of Complex Systems (COSY) research program, the book follows from and expands upon an earlier collection: Control of Complex Systems by introducing novel theoretical techniques for hard-to-control networks and systems.
The major common feature of all the superficially diverse contributions encompassed by this book is that of spotting and exploiting possible areas of mutual reinforcement between control, computing and communications. These help readers to achieve not only robust stable plant system operation but also properties such as collective adaptivity, integrity and survivability at the same time retaining desired performance quality.
Applications in the individual chapters are drawn from:
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the general implementation of model-based diagnosis and systems engineering in medical technology, in communication, and in power and airport networks;
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the creation of biologically inspired control brains and safety-critical human-machine systems,
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process-industrial uses;
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biped robots;
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large space structures and unmanned aerial vehicles; and
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precision servomechanisms and other advanced technologies.

The book provides researchers from engineering, applied mathematics and computer science backgrounds with innovative theoretical and practical insights into the state-of-the-art of complex networks and systems research. It employs physical implementations and extensive computer simulations. Graduate students specializing in complex-systems
The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.

MSC:

93-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to systems and control theory
93A15 Large-scale systems
93C95 Application models in control theory
00B15 Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest

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