"Automation and Control" ed. by Constantin Volosencu, Serdar Küçük, José Guerrero, Oscar Valero

This book presents recent theoretical and practical information about the field of automation and control. The book is designed for specialists, engineers, professors, and students.

The book includes fifteen chapters that promote automation and control in practical applications in the following thematic areas: control theory, autonomous vehicles, mechatronics, digital image processing, electrical grids, artificial intelligence, and electric motor drives. The book presents and discusses applications that improve the properties and performances of process control with examples and case studies obtained from real-world research in the field.

Contents
1. Development of Ellipsoidal Analysis and Filtering Methods for Nonlinear Control Stochastic Systems
2. Reconfigurable Minimum-Time Autonomous Marine Vehicle Guidance in Variable Sea Currents
3. Knowledge-Based Controller Optimised with Particle Swarm Optimisation for Adaptive Path Tracking Control of an Autonomous Heavy Vehicle
4. Integral Backstepping Controller for UAVs Team Formation
5. An Implementable and Stabilizing Model Predictive Control Strategy for Inverted Pendulum-Like Behaved Systems
6. Stewart-Gough Platform: Design and Construction with a Digital PID Controller Implementation
7. Kinematics of Serial Manipulators
8. An In-Depth Analysis of Sliding Mode Control and Its Application to Robotics
9. Polygonal Approximation of Digital Planar Curve Using Novel Significant Measure
10. Robust and Adaptive Control for Synchronous Generator’s Operation Improvement
11. Automatic Control of the Structure of Dynamic Objects in High-Voltage Power Smart-Grid
12. Evaluation of Algorithmic Management of Digital Work Platform in Developing Countries
13. Overview of Some Intelligent Control Structures and Dedicated Algorithms
14. DC Motor Synchronization Speed Controller Based on Microcontroller
15. Wavelet Neural Networks for Speed Control of BLDC Motor


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