Read more
This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the Symposium on Control Problems in Industry, held on July 22-23, 1994 in San Diego. The Symposium, conducted by the Society for Industrial and Applied Math ematics (SIAM), with the cooperation of the Institut National Recherche Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) , focused on industrial control ap plications that have benefited from recent mathematical and technological developments. A partial list of themes featured by the Symposium is listed below. 1) Applications of Control Techniques in a) the aerospace industry, b) the automotive industry, c) the environmental science, d) manufacturing processes, e) the petroleum industry. 2) Optimal Shape Design in Aerospace Applications 3) Optimal Design of Micro-optics 4) Robust Control and H-infinity Methods The purpose of this meeting was to bring together experts from in dustry and academia to share their experience and present new results and new trends in modern control theory, with a focus on real industrial applications. The presentations were selected primarily for the practical significance of the problem solved, though all had significant mathemati cal components. Control theory is an interdisciplinary field which, in its broadest sense, encompasses contributions ranging from classical engineer ing disciplines (circuit theory, automata theory, electronics, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, material science), to theoretical engineering (sys tem theory, computer science) and various areas of mathematics such as ODE, PDE, complex analysis, function theory, algebraic and differential geometry, numerical analysis, etc.
List of contents
Automatic Differentiation: Obtaining Fast and Reliable Derivatives - Fast.- Application of Exact Controllability to the Computation of Scattering Waves.- Estimation and Control of Sheet- and Film-Forming Processes.- New Directions in Industrial Control: Intelligent Control - An Experimental Study Applied to a Multivariable Hydraulic System.- Controlled Scattering of Light Waves: Optimal Design of Diffractive Optics.- Identification and Control Problems in Petroleum and Groundwater Modeling.- Optimal Strategies for Energy-Efficient Train Control.- Application of H? Control to Wave Generators in a Canal.- Control of Hydraulic Equipments of a River Valley.- Some Aspects of the Mathematical Modeling of Wavefront Controllers for Adaptive Optics Systems.- Modeling the Induction Process of an Automobile Engine.- Applied Mathematics and Systematic Automotive Powertrain Synthesis.- Geometric Flows for Image Processing.- Stability and Robustness Analysis of Dynamic Inversion Control Laws for Nonlinear Control of Fighter Aircraft.
