Luigi Fortuna

Mattia Frasca

Paolo Arena

This book deals with locomotion control of biologically inspired robots realized through an analog circuital paradigm as cellular nonlinear networks. It presents a general methodology for the control of bio-inspired robots and several case studies, as well as describes a new approach to motion control and the related circuit architecture.

Bio-inspired Emergent Control of Locomotion Systems

Nadia Terranova

Ferdinando Esposito

Michele De Caro

Mario Pistacchio

Michele Carenini

Mirko Sabatino

Andrea Chimenti

Roberto Pellico

Ivan Polidoro

Nicola Ingenito

Stof

Fabrizio Gabrielli

Euro Carello

Raffaella Ferré

Monica Mazzitelli

Quale frase sentite più spesso nel periodo natalizio: buon Natale? Sbagliato! La frase più ripetuta è: “odio le feste, spero che passino in fretta”. Questo è un volume che racconta l’altro Natale, quello di chi rifiuta l’idea di scegliere regali in negozi affollatissimi. Quello di chi deve mandare giù roba insipida per assecondare le manie culinarie di una zia alla quale non si può dire di no. Di chi è cresciuto senza un genitore e col resto della famiglia a soffocarlo d'amore per non farne sentire l’assenza. Quello di chi Babbo Natale lo prenderebbe a calci e chissà cos’altro... Sedici autori, sguinzagliati da noi tra deliri pre e post natalizi per mettere nero su bianco, una volta per sempre, il lato oscuro di Babbo Natale e di tutto quello che rappresenta in quell’orgia internazionale che è il mese di dicembre. Un’orgia innanzitutto commerciale nella quale ci daremo da fare anche noi proprio con questo volume di storie dolci e spietate, malinconiche e divertenti. Un libro per chi, quell’inesorabile Natale, lo ama e lo festeggia, perché chi lo detesta sa già tutto. Buon Natale da 80144 edizioni!

Babbo Natale è strunz

Arturo Buscarino

There are many books on advanced control for specialists, but not many present these topics for non-specialists. Assuming only a basic knowledge of automatic control and signals and systems, this second edition of Optimal and Robust Control offers a straightforward, self-contained handbook of advanced topics and tools in automatic control. The book deals with advanced automatic control techniques, paying particular attention to robustness-the ability to guarantee stability in the presence of uncertainty. It explains advanced techniques for handling uncertainty and optimizing the control loop. It also details analytical strategies for obtaining reduced order models. The authors then propose using the Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) technique as a unifying tool to solve many types of advanced control problems. Topics covered in the book include, LQR and H∞ approaches Kalman and singular value decomposition Open-loop balancing and reduced order models Closed-loop balancing Positive-real systems, bounded-real systems, and imaginary-negative systems Criteria for stability control Time-delay systems This easy-to-read text presents the essential theoretical background and provides numerous examples and MATLAB® exercises to help the reader efficiently acquire new skills. Written for electrical, electronic, computer science, space, and automation engineers interested in automatic control, this book can also be used for self-study of for a one-semester course in robust control. This fully renewed second edition of the book also includes new fundamental topics such as Lyapunov functions for stability, variational calculus, formulation in terms of optimization problems of matrix algebraic equations, negative-imaginary systems, and time-delay systems.

Advanced Topics with MATLAB®

Optimal and Robust Control

This book deals with nonlinear dynamics of electronic circuits, which could be used in robot control, secure communications, sensors and synchronized networks. The genesis of the content is related to a course on complex adaptive systems that has been held at the University of Catania since 2005. The efforts are devoted in order to emulate with nonlinear electronic circuits nonlinear dynamics. Step-by-step methods show the essential concepts of complex systems by using the Varela diagrams and accompanying MATLAB® exercises to reinforce new information. Special attention has been devoted to chaotic systems and networks of chaotic circuits by exploring the fundamentals, such as synchronization and control. The aim of the book is to give to readers a comprehensive view of the main concepts of nonlinear dynamics to help them better understand complex systems and their control through the use of electronics devices.

Essentials of Nonlinear Circuit Dynamics with MATLAB® and Laboratory Experiments

This book deals with locomotion control of biologically inspired robots realized through an analog circuital paradigm as cellular nonlinear networks. It presents a general methodology for the control of bio-inspired robots and several case studies, as well as describes a new approach to motion control and the related circuit architecture. Bio-inspired Emergent Control of Locomotion Systems provides researchers with a guide to the fundamentals of the topics. Moreover, neuro-biologists and physiologists can use the book as a starting point to design artificial structures for testing their biological hypotheses on the animal model.

Mattia Frasca

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