Stable Adaptive Control and Estimation for Nonlinear Systems (eBook)

JEFFREY T. SPOONER is a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. MANFREDI MAGGIORE is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada. RAÚL ORDÓÑEZ is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Dayton, Ohio. KEVIN M. PASSINO is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at The Ohio State University.

Introduction.

PART I: FOUNDATIONS.

Mathematical Foundations.

Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems.

Optimization for Training Approximators.

Function Approximation.

PART II: STATE-FEEDBACK CONTROL.

Control of Nonlinear Systems.

Direct Adaptive Control.

Indirect Adaptive Control.

Implementations and Comparative Studies.

PART III:OUTPUT-FEEDBACK CONTROL.

Output-Feedback Control.

Adaptive Output Feedback Control.

Applications.

PART IV: EXTENSIONS.

Discrete-Time Systems.

Decentralized Systems.

Perspectives on Intelligent Adaptive Systems.

For Further Study.

Bibliography.

Index.

"...well-organized...very useful for a graduate level
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Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, January 2005)

"...the text is well organised with topics judiciously
selected to build on each other...the discussion and
motivations are rigorous..." (International Journal of
Robust & Nonlinear Control, Vol.15, No.1, 10th January
2005)

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(International Journal of General Systems, Vol. 32,
2003)