Showing papers in "Annual Reviews in Control in 2007"

TL;DR: A general framework to analyze the literature and present existing works using such criteria as: the manufacturing system features, static/dynamic considerations, continual/discrete representation, problem formulation, and resolution approach is suggested.

TL;DR: Analysis of chattering in such systems with unmodeled based on the Lyapunov theory and the describing function method and various approaches to reduce chattering are described including methods based on relay control gain adaptation.

TL;DR: The overview is focused on recent decomposition approaches in interconnected dynamic systems due to their potential in providing the extension of decentralized control into networked control systems.

TL;DR: The main conclusion of the presentation is that industrial robot development is far away from its limits and that a lot of research and development is needed to obtain a more widely use of robot automation in industry.

TL;DR: The paper discusses architectures and methods to build interoperable enterprise systems, advocating a mixed service and process orientation, to support synchronous and/or asynchronous operations, both at the business level and at the application level.

TL;DR: This paper examines specifically supply planning under uncertainties in MRP environments, specifically assembly systems with uncertain lead times, for which the main difficulty comes from the inter-dependence of components inventories.

TL;DR: The results show that predictive engine control based on online optimisation can be accomplished in real-time – even on cheap controller hardware – and leads to increased controller performance.

TL;DR: Several advanced solutions such as mixed knowledge systems, that combine numerical methods with AI-based tools, and the prospects of using Ambient Intelligence concepts in DSS construction are described.

TL;DR: A realistic approach to materialize agility in VO creation is defined under the assumption of a VO Breeding Environment (VBE), that guarantees the preparedness of its members to quickly get engaged in collaboration processes.

TL;DR: This paper provides an introduction to several problems and techniques related to controlling periodic motions of dynamical systems for which a particularly rich structure allows many of the problems to be solved analytically.

TL;DR: The “four wheels” of e-Work, their 15 e-dimensions and their role in e-Production and e-Service are explained and illustrated, and network models and their bio-inspired redesign counterparts are explained with implications to the future of production and service systems.

TL;DR: The industry trends that are shaping current automation requirements, as well as the future trends in process automation, are presented and discussed.

TL;DR: The place, role and mutual interaction of advanced control algorithms and on-line set-point optimization in process control structures are demonstrated and different structures of interaction and even integration of MPC and steady-state optimization are discussed.

TL;DR: Fundamental issues and new challenges in the design of controllers to deal with periodic disturbances along with applications to mechanical systems are presented.

TL;DR: A review of the early developments of automatic control systems for ship steering, which led to Sperry's automatic pilot, is given in this article, followed by an overview of developments in roll stabilisation; integrated ship steering and roll stabilization; unmanned underwater vehicles and unmanned surface vessels.

TL;DR: This paper introduces assembly system proactivity, a concept based on interrelated levels of human involvement, automation, and information handling that will utilize the fully combined potential of human and technical capabilities, providing cost-efficient assembly system solutions.

TL;DR: Simulations and experimental results highlight the validity of the proposed methodology for the solution of nonlinear adaptive control problems, which does not rely on structural assumptions on the system to be controlled nor on linear parameterization.

TL;DR: Remote experiments are used to enhance lessons in SENAI-RS, a vocational education institution in southern Brazil, enabling the development of collaborative projects among students at different sites, using the system named deriveSERVER.

TL;DR: It is shown that the proposed differential geometric treatment of stability can naturally cope with redundancy resolution problems of surplus degrees-of-freedom (d.f.) of the overall fingers-object system, which is closely related to Bernstein’s d.f. problem.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the history and modern practice of process control in metallurgical operations and present a review of the early deliverables from the pioneer days in the 1950s through to the 1970s and early 1980s were under-appreciated.

TL;DR: Several such approaches are compared in this paper based on simulation models for a high-mix fab, which requires advanced methodologies based on state estimation and recursive least squares.

TL;DR: This plenary presentation focuses on notions of nonsmooth derivatives and regularity and on structural tools such as partial smoothness and semi-algebraic techniques, illustrating how each idea helps in analysis and algorithm design.

TL;DR: A sketch of a unified framework for posing and solving problems of optimal control in the presence of uncontrolled disturbances, where the controller is a scheduler and the disturbances are related to uncertainties in task durations.

TL;DR: This chapter reviews the tools from the network theorist arsenal to make them available to control engineers, and describes how ideas developed for complex network research can be exploited within a control systems framework.

TL;DR: The present paper describes the theoretical methodology on which the data organization and interpretation adopted in the CODESNET project is based and the application of an original meta-model of SME network, developed in the mentioned project, is detailed.

TL;DR: The special section papers give an excellent overview of major problems in Manufacturing Systems and Logistics, and present advanced methods and promising research paths.