Showing papers in "Annual Reviews in Control in 2005"

TL;DR: A survey of the emerging field termed “control of chaos” is given, which includes traditional control engineering methods including linear, nonlinear and adaptive control, neural networks and fuzzy control, and applications in various fields of engineering.

TL;DR: A new result concerning model reduction with preservation of passivity which is appropriate for application to large-scale circuits arising in VLSI chip performance verification is concluded.

TL;DR: In this article, classical ideas from system identification and control can be used to automate irrigation systems to deliver a near on-demand water supply with vastly improved overall distribution efficiency in Australia.

TL;DR: Parts of unmanned aerial vehicle autonomy as suggested by the Autonomous Control Logic chart of the U.S. DoD UAV autonomy roadmap are reviewed; levels of vehicle autonomy addressed through intelligent control practices and a hierarchical/intelligent control architecture are presented for UAVs.

TL;DR: Structural issues in the design and operation of marine control systems on ships and offshore installations, including control systems for offshore vessels conducting station keeping and low speed manoeuvring operations are addressed.

TL;DR: This milestone report describes the main problems, such as management of complexity, scalability, increasing costs, coordination, market-based resource allocation, and more in the next generation manufacturing system.

TL;DR: The status report gives an overview of the current key problems in control theory and design, evaluates the recent major accomplishments and forecasts some new areas.

TL;DR: This paper focuses on the current key problems engineers in this field are facing and highlights some major recent accomplishments and a forecast on future trends is given.

TL;DR: Current and future mechatronic as well as micro-electromechanical systems are shown on the basis of technological trends and market requirements, e.g. reduced fuel consumption and emission for automotive technology.

TL;DR: The focus should be on innovative systems approaches, employing new paradigms, to combined knowledge and technology transfer world-wide, that may remedy some of the negative aspects of globalization.

TL;DR: This approach allows the extension of ubiquitous computing and image oriented mixed reality to ubiquitous physical action and it is shown, how distributed collaboration between two or more locations and environments can benefit from this technology.

TL;DR: Several new space missions are under development within ESA's Earth Observation programmes, emphasizing control/navigation aspects when instrumental to the novel EO data.

TL;DR: A time-domain perspective is provided to the theory of H 2, H ∞ and entropy analysis and minimization and a few theoretical aspects of linear periodic systems in continuous-time are considered.

TL;DR: The complexity of the dynamic processes and their control associated with biological and ecological systems offer many challenges for the control engineer as mentioned in this paper, and over the past decades the application of dynamic modelling and control has aided understanding of their complexities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the current key problems, recent accomplishments and trends, as well as a forecast of anticipated developments within this very important field of industrial applications.

TL;DR: A large number of new basic ideas for adapting Calculus of Variations to modern control problems and synthesizing them into modern control theory were elaborated in the course of investigations in flight dynamics.