Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals and Systems with Physical Modeling
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Editors Jean Lvine CAS, Unit Mathmatiques et Systmes MINES-ParisTech 35, rue Saint-Honor 77300 Fontainebleau France E-mail: jean.levine@mines-paristech.fr Philippe Mllhaupt Laboratoire dAutomatique Facult des Sciences de lIngnieur Station 9 CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland E-mail: philippe.muellhaupt@ep.ch
ISBN 978-3-642-16134-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-16135-3 Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
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ISSN 0170-8643
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Advances in the Theory of Control, Signals, and Systems, with Physical Modeling
Jean L evine1 and Philippe M ullhaupt2
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This book gathers articles that have been invited for presentation in the framework of a Bernoulli Programme, held at the Bernoulli Center in Lausanne (Switzerland) from January to June 2009. This Programme mainly consisted of three workshops aiming at reviewing the advances in the theory of control, signals, and systems, with a particular emphasis on their relationship to physical modeling. More precisely, the aim of this series of three workshops was to bring together knowledge and know-how from the communities of control, signals and systems, focus on the theoretical advances in these areas and examine the possibilities of new convergences between them, contribute to the enhancement of the dialogue between theoretical laboratories and more practically oriented units and industries. In the 60s, control, signals and systems had a common linear algebraic background and, according to their evolution, their respective backgrounds have now dramatically differed. Recovering such a common background, especially in the nonlinear context, is currently a fully open question. In most contributions, emphasis has been put on physical modeling, which serves as an Ariadnes thread between the diverse elds of interest. This idea is not new, however. As an example, mechanical system modeling, which heavily relies on analytical mechanics and in particular its conservation laws, has greatly inspired control theory. As another example, control of chemical processes also gained in the use of
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Centre Automatique et Syst` emes, Unit e Math ematiques et Syst` emes, Mines-ParisTech, E-mail: jean.levine@mines-paristech.fr Laboratoire dAutomatique, Ecole Polytechnique F ed erale de Lausanne E-mail: philippe.muellhaupt@epfl.ch
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sophisticated modeling software tools based on theories of mass balance conservation and entropy laws. Hence one purpose of this program was to force the interaction of probably uncorrelated disciplines thanks to these theoretical modeling aspects. Another important aspect of the conferences was to present and develop new applications of the above approaches, and contribute to the enhancement of the dialogue between theoretical laboratories and more practically oriented research units and industries, in both classical areas and emerging elds of research. The rst workshop, entitled Electrical and Mechatronical Systems Workshop looked at various applications stemming from Mechatronics, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, such as MEMS, eletrical machines, robots and car suspension. From the modeling and methodological side, nite dimensional systems (described by ordinary differential equations or difference equations) and innite dimensional systems (delayed systems, distributed systems, PDEs, non-integer derivations) were approached for control and signal processing, as well as model-free techniques Indeed, the inuence of physical modeling contributed to outline some convergences. In particular, a unifying Lagrangian formalism has been sketched so as to integrate electrical, electronical, magnetic and mechanical aspects of systems, potentially leading to signicant simplications in the analysis of control systems. Both nite dimensional and innite dimensional models are shown to ease some estimation, adaptative control and observation problems. New applications in emerging elds of mechatronic systems, such as MEMS, or new suspension technologies, have been presented, showing that Mechanics, Mechatronics and Electronics remain a major source of inspiration for control and system theorists. The aim of the second workshop, entitled Mathematical Tools Workshop, was to serve as a think tank for mathematical paradigms in the elds of Control, Signals and Systems. Again, both nite dimensional and innite dimensional models have been explored. Various approaches, in the framework of differential geometry and algebra have been examined. Group theory and Riemannian Geometry appeared in many presentations with, in particular, robotics, mechanical systems or quantum control as background applications. Recent advances, in the elds of hamiltonian, lagrangian, quantum, energy-based and at or non at control systems have also been presented. Finally, the third and last workshop, entitled Chemical and Life Science Workshop, concerned new approaches in the analysis of biomedical, biomechanical and reaction systems, possibly coupled with uid dynamics, with many challenging applications such as cancer treatment and diagnosis. Important results concerning unifying approaches to deal with complex chemical and biochemical reactions have been presented taking into account the network structure of the reactions while ensuring robustness with respect to various unknown parameters and perturbations. The inuence of noisy data in the biological and chemical reaction systems has also been approached. Time-scales, transients and bifurcations in ecological systems, population dynamics and biological systems have also received a great attention and their control theoretical perspectives have been envisaged.
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The reader will nd in the present volume key contributions and surveys, giving a precise account of the above topics. The book is organized in three parts, according to the three aforementioned workshops. In each part, the articles follow the alphabetic order of the rst author. This order has been prefered to a more sophisticated, but often articial, clustering by sub-themes. We hope that these readings will be most inspiring and informative to PhD students and researchers in Mathematics, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical or Bio Engineering, and more generally to every people of both the academic and industrial spheres curious of the recent developments in control, signals and systems. We are very grateful both to the Swiss National Science Foundation for funding such an endeavor and to the Centre Bernoulli for providing the required infrastructure. In particular, we thank Mrs. Christiane De Paola, Talya Van Woerden, Sabrina Martone, and Rana Gherzeddine for the important administrative and organisational work and Mr. Marc Perraudin for maintaining the internet server. Last, but not least, we are deeply indebted to Prof. Tudor Ratiu for his constant encouragements to organize the above program. Jean L evine and Philippe M ullhaupt Mines-ParisTech and EPFL
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Controlling Underactuated Mechanical Systems: A Review and Open Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zhong-Ping Jiang Time Scaling in Motion Planning and Control of Tree-Like Pendulum Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthias Krause, Joachim Rudolph, Frank Woittennek Mechanical Version of the CRONE Suspension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alain Oustaloup, Xavier Moreau
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