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Engineering sciences. Technology --- #TS:TCPW --- Periodicals --- System theory --- System analysis --- Business, Economy and Management --- Business Management --- General and Others --- 30.10 cybernetics and systems theory

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This book describes a comprehensive approach to applying systems science formally to the deep analysis of a wide variety of complex systems. Detailed 'how-to' examples of the three phases (analysis-modeling-design) of systems science are applied to systems of various types (machines, organic (e.g. ecosystem), and supra-organic (e.g. business organizations and government). The complexity of the global system has reached proportions that seriously challenge our abilities to understand the consequences of our use of technology, modification of natural ecosystems, or even how to govern ourselves. For this reason, complex mathematics is eschewed when simpler structures will suffice, allowing the widest possible audience to apply and benefit from the available tools and concepts of systems science in their own work. The book shows, in detail, how to functionally and structurally deconstruct complex systems using a fundamental language of systems. It shows how to capture the discovered details in a structured knowledge base from which abstract models can be derived for simulation. The knowledge base is also shown to be a basis for generating system design specifications for human-built artifacts, or policy recommendations/policy mechanisms for socio-economic-ecological systems management. The book builds on principles and methods found in the authors' textbook Principles of Systems Science (co-authored with Michael Kalton), but without prerequisites. It will appeal to a broad audience that deals with complex systems every day, from design engineers to economic and ecological systems managers and policymakers.

Economics --- Discrete mathematics --- Mathematics --- Mathematical physics --- Classical mechanics. Field theory --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- grafentheorie --- theoretische fysica --- economie --- systeemtheorie --- milieubeleid --- milieuzorg --- wiskunde --- fysica --- dynamica --- System theory. --- System design.

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This book investigates in detail cutting-edge technologies of underactuated manipulator control, which is a frontier topic in robotics that possesses great significance in energy conservation as well as fault tolerance for industrial applications. It is also the crucial technology associated with systems in special environments, including underwater or aerospace environments. So far, the topic of underactuated manipulator control has attracted engineers and scientists from various disciplines, such as applied physics, material, automation and robotics. Pursuing a holistic approach, the book establishes a fundamental framework for this topic, while emphasizing the importance of design and optimization in the control of underactuated manipulators. Chapters of the book cover a wide variety of manipulator systems, including vertical underactuated manipulator, planar underactuated manipulator with first-order nonholonomic constraint, planar underactuated manipulator with second-order nonholonomic constraint and flexible underactuated manipulator. The book is intended for undergraduate and graduate students that are interested in underactuated manipulators, researchers that investigate the design and optimization for controllers of underactuated manipulators and engineers working with underactuated systems.

Electrical engineering --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Computer. Automation --- mechatronica --- industriële robots --- automatisering --- systeemtheorie --- robots --- automatische regeltechniek --- Control engineering. --- Robotics. --- Automation. --- System theory. --- Control theory. --- Control and Systems Theory. --- Control, Robotics, Automation. --- Systems Theory, Control . --- Automation --- System Theory --- Technology & Engineering --- Science

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Operational research. Game theory --- Operations research --- Recherche opérationnelle --- Periodicals --- Périodiques --- #BA02198 --- #ETEW:TSCAT --- Business, Economy and Management --- Operations Research --- Strategic Management & Business Policy --- Operations research. --- Operational analysis --- Operational research --- Industrial engineering --- Management science --- Research --- System theory

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This textbook, now in its second edition, results from lectures, practical problems, and workshops on Optimal Control, given by the authors at Irkutsk State University, Far Eastern Federal University (both in Vladivostok, Russia), and Kwangwoon University (Seoul, South Korea). In this work, the authors cover the theory of linear and nonlinear systems, touching on the basic problem of establishing the necessary and sufficient conditions of optimal processes. Readers will find two new chapters, with results of potential interest to researchers with a focus on the theory of optimal control, as well as to those interested in applications in Engineering and related sciences. In addition, several improvements have been made through the text. This book is structured in three parts. Part I starts with a gentle introduction to the basic concepts in Optimal Control. In Part II, the theory of linear control systems is constructed on the basis of the separation theorem and the concept of a reachability set. The authors prove the closure of reachability set in the class of piecewise continuous controls and touch on the problems of controllability, observability, identification, performance, and terminal control. Part III, in its turn, is devoted to nonlinear control systems. Using the method of variations and the Lagrange multipliers rule of nonlinear problems, the authors prove the Pontryagin maximum principle for problems with mobile ends of trajectories. Problem sets at the end of chapters and a list of additional tasks, provided in the appendix, are offered for students seeking to master the subject. The exercises have been chosen not only as a way to assimilate the theory but also as to induct the application of such knowledge in more advanced problems.

Functional analysis --- Numerical methods of optimisation --- Operational research. Game theory --- analyse (wiskunde) --- systeemtheorie --- wiskunde --- kansrekening --- optimalisatie --- Mathematical optimization. --- Calculus of variations. --- System theory. --- Optimització matemàtica --- Càlcul de variacions --- Teoria de sistemes