Background The evolving concepts of pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing and
ambient intelligence are increasingly influencing health care and medicine. Summarizing …

Illustrating the power, simplicity, and generality of the concept of flatness, this reference
explains how to identify, utilize, and apply flatness in system planning and design. The book …

The predictive control method deals with the prediction of the motor behavior based on a
mathematical model of the motor. This model is dependent on the motor parameters …

With the increasing number of applications for both surface and underwater autonomous
vehicles, a great amount of control methods and guidance principles has been developed …

The use of model predictive control for quadro-tor applications requires balancing trajectory
tracking performance and constraint satisfaction with fast computation. This paper proposes …

Lagrangian systems represent a wide range of robotic systems, including manipulators,
wheeled and legged robots, and quadrotors. Inverse dynamics control and feedforward …

Shape memory alloys (SMA) are being more frequently integrated into engineering
applications. These materials with their shape memory effect enable the simplification of …

We present DCAD, a novel, decentralized collision avoidance algorithm for navigating a
swarm of quadrotors in dense environments populated with static and dynamic obstacles …

Several flatness-based current controllers for three-phase three-wire boost rectifiers are
compared. For this purpose, the flatness of a rectifier model is shown, and a trajectory …

The present contribution introduces a new deadbeat controller design that increases
robustness without compromising performance. In conventional deadbeat control, feedback …