Nature-Inspired Computing for Control Systems

The book presents recent advances in nature-inspired computing, giving a special emphasis to control systems applications. It reviews different techniques used for simulating physical, chemical, biological or social phenomena at the purpose of designing robust, predictive and adaptive control strategies. The book is a collection of several contributions, covering either more general approaches in control systems, or methodologies for control tuning and adaptive controllers, as well as exciting applications of nature-inspired techniques in robotics. On one side, the book is expected to motivate readers with a background in conventional control systems to try out these powerful techniques inspired by nature. On the other side, the book provides advanced readers with a deeper understanding of the field and a broad spectrum of different methods and techniques. All in all, the book is an outstanding, practice-oriented reference guide to nature-inspired computing addressing graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the field of control engineering.

List of contents

Part I. General Control Approaches.- Control Tuning and Adaptive Control Systems.- Robotics Applications.

Summary

The book presents recent advances in nature-inspired computing, giving a special emphasis to control systems applications. It reviews different techniques used for simulating physical, chemical, biological or social phenomena at the purpose of designing robust, predictive and adaptive control strategies. The book is a collection of several contributions, covering either more general approaches in control systems, or methodologies for control tuning and adaptive controllers, as well as exciting applications of nature-inspired techniques in robotics. On one side, the book is expected to motivate readers with a background in conventional control systems to try out these powerful techniques inspired by nature. On the other side, the book provides advanced readers with a deeper understanding of the field and a broad spectrum of different methods and techniques. All in all, the book is an outstanding, practice-oriented reference guide to nature-inspired computing addressing graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the field of control engineering.

Product details

• Assisted by: Hira Eredín Ponce Espinosa (Editor), Hiram Eredín Ponce Espinosa (Editor), Hiram Eredín Ponce Espinosa (Editor), Hiram Eredín Ponce Espinosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783319262284
• ISBN: 978-3-31-926228-4
• No. of pages: 289
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Illustrations: XII, 289 p. 179 illus., 62 illus. in color.
• Series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control; Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; B, Regelungstechnik, Artificial Intelligence, engineering, Control and Systems Theory, Computational Intelligence, Control engineering, Automatic control engineering, Nonlinear PID Controller, Optical Flow Models, Robotic Swarm Control, MIMO Nonlinear Systems, Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Networks