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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsDiscontinuous control of the nonholonomic integrator, A. Astolfi; grasp and motion control of objects by general mechanisms, A. Bicchi and D. Prattichizzo; some results of variable structure control applied to mechanical systems, C. Bonivento and R. Zanasi; hybrid feedback strategies for the control of juggling robots, A. Zavala-Rio and B. Brogliato; invariant manifolds - a tool for stabilization, C. Canudas de Wit; control of flexible mechanical systems, M. Corless; fuzzy logic control of a variable displacement hydraulic pump, C. Fantuzzi et al; the straight running behaviour of two-wheeled road vehicles, D. Limebeer et al; the tracking problem for non-minimum phase systems - applications to flexible-link robots, L. Marconi and C. Melchiorri; experimental identification of robot manipulators, J. Swevers; modelling and control of non-smooth impacts, A. Tornambe; an invariant manifold approach for stabilization of nonholonomic systems, P. Tsiotras; geometry of interconnection and implicit Hamiltonian systems, A. van der Schaft; a network approach to nonlinear mechanical systems, H. Yoshimura and T. Kawase. (Part contents).
