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This book shows readers new ways to compensate for disturbances
in control systems prolonging the intervals between time-consuming
and/or expensive fault diagnosis procedures, keeping them up to
date in the increasingly important field of adaptive control.
Computational Fluid Dynamics has now grown into a multidisciplinary
activity with considerable industrial applications. The papers in
this volume bring out the current status and future trends in CFD
very effectively. They cover numerical techniques for solving Euler
and Navier-Stokes equations and other models of fluid flow, along
with a number of papers on applications. Besides the 88 contributed
papers by research workers from all over the world, the book also
includes 6 invited lectures from distinguished scientists and
engineers.
This book shows readers new ways to compensate for disturbances
in control systems prolonging the intervals between time-consuming
and/or expensive fault diagnosis procedures, keeping them up to
date in the increasingly important field of adaptive control.
Addressing the difficult problem of controlling flexible spacecraft having multiple articulated appendages is the aim of this volume. Such systems are needed for space mission concepts including multi-payload space platforms and autonomous space-based manipulators. These systems are characterised by highly nonlinear dynamics, flexibility in members and joints, low inherent damping, and modeling uncertainty. A complete nonlinear rotational dynamic model of a generic multibody flexible system is derived, and is shown to possess certain passivity properties. The main result is a class of passivity-based nonlinear and linear output feedback control laws that enable globally stable closed-loop manoeuvres. The control laws are robust to parametric uncertainties, unmodeled uncertainties, and in some cases, actuator and sensor nonlinearities. All results given are also applicable to flexible terrestrial manipulators.
This book is a research monograph that addresses the basic issues
in controlling large, flexible space structures (LFSS), and
presents some controller synthesis methods developed by the author.
The main problem considered is that of controller synthesis for
precision attitude control and vibration suppression in LFSS. The
bulk of the book presents two basic approaches for controller
synthesis: 1. a class of "dissipative" controllers which utilize
collocated actuators and sensors, and 2. a class of model-based
compensators. The book will serve to stimulate research activity in
control theory with application to LFSS, and will be very useful to
researchers, practising engineers, academic faculty, and students
in control and aerospace sciences. The background required of the
reader is familiarity with basic control theory including state
variable methods, which is generally attained at the first-year
postgraduate level.
The book "Compatibility of Trichogramma Chilonis Ishii with
chemical pesticides: Integration of biological and chemical
control" presents useful information on comparative safety of
various chemical pesticides and biopesticides to Trichogramma
chilonis Ishii (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae), a potent egg
parasitoid of Lepidopteran pests, based on laboratory assessments.
It is of practical significance in undertaking integrated pest
management programmes with inclusion of biological control agents
along with the other pest control methods. This book would be a
very useful guide for students, plant protection scientists,
extension workers and the entrepreneurs in different ways for
getting insight into the intricacies of the issue and the options
available for management
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