Software-Enabled Control Information Technology for Dynamical Systems [Hardcover]

• Discusses open systems, object orientation, software agents, domain-specific languages, component architectures, as well as the dramatic IT-enabled improvements in memory, communication, and processing resources that are now available for sophisticated control algorithms to exploit.
• Useful for practitioners and researchers in the fields of real-time systems, aerospace engineering, embedded systems, and artificial intelligence.

Preface.

Introduction.

The Sec Vision (H. Gill & J. Bay).

Trends and Technologies For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (D. Van Cleave).

Previewing the Software-Enabled Control Research Portfolio (T. Samad & G. Balas).

II: SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES FOR REAL-TIME CONTROL.

Open Control Platform: A Software Platform Supporting Advances in UAV Control Technology (J. Paunicka, et al.).

A Prototype Open Control Platform For Reconfigurable Control Systems (L. Wills, et al.). 

Real-Time Adaptive Resource Management for Multimodel Control (M. Agrawal, et al.). 

Heterogeneous Modeling and Design of Control Systems (X. Liu, et al.).

Embedded Control Systems Development with Giotto (T. Henzinger, et al.).

III: ONLINE MODELING AND CONTROL.

Online Control Customization Via Optimization-Based Control (R. Murray, et al.).

Model Predictive Neural Control For Aggressive Helicop ter Maneuvers (E. Wan, et al.).

Active Model Estimation For Complex Autonomous Systems (M. Campbell, et al.).