Analysis and Control of Industrial Processes

by Dobrivoje Popovic (Editor)

Overview

This book is an outcome of a 2-days Workshop on Automation Engineering held in Salzhausen (near Hamburg), F.R. Germany. The Workshop is annually organ­ ized by the Institute of Automation Technology and the Institute of Applied and Physical Chemistry of the University of Bremen. It is regularly joined by 30 to 40 participants representing the teaching and reserarch staff of both Institutes, as weIl as some invited colleagues from other universities and the regional industry. Usually 15/20 selected contributions, grouped in technical sessions (system modelling and identification, control systems design, computer hardware and soft­ ware, knowledge-based systems, robotics etc.), are presented at the Workshop, whereby the invited guests preferably present survey papers on current problems of modern systems engineering. For this book, 22 papers, contributed to the last two Workshops, are selected and grouped into 6 Chapters. The Chapters reflect the technical sessions listed above and give an average view on current research activities at both Institutes of the University. It is expected that the book will prove as a useful reference to the scientists and practicing engineers in the area of development and application of methods of modern systems engineering in processing industry and the robotics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783528063405
Publisher:	Vieweg+Teubner Verlag
Publication date:	01/01/1991
Series:	Advances in System Analysis , #6
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	0.00(w) x 0.00(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1. Survey Papers.- Review and Future of Adaptive Control Systems.- Expert Systems and Their Applications: A Survey.- Fibre Optic Communication Systems in Industrial Automation.- Route Optimization Algorithms for Expert Systems.- 2. Dynamic Systems.- Enclosure Methods and Their Applications in Control Theory.- Improved Computation of Balancing Transformations for Model Reduction of Minimal Systems.- Adaptive Control of Linear Plants With Unknown High-Frequency Gain.- Design of a Full-Order Observer and its Minimal-Order Version for a One-Link Flexible Robot Arm.- 3. Model Building and System Simulation.- Modelling and Simulation of Non-Isothermal Processes for the Reduction, Precipitation and Characterization of Metal Phases in Zeolites.- Dynamics of Heterogeneously Catalyzed Oxydation Rections on Palladium Supported Catalysts.- Modelling and Simulation of the Methanation from Carbon Monoxide-Rich Synthesis Gas.- On Parameter Estimation of Ecosystem Models.- 4. Process Analysis and Control.- A Petri-Net-Based Tool for Computer-Aided Model Building, Simulation, and Analysis of Engineering Systems.- Control of Distributed Parameter Systems Using Pointwise Location of Sensors and Actuators.- On Modelling and Control of a Reactor for Pyrolysis.- Computer Coupled Laboratory Reactor for the Study of Temperature Profile Dynamics.- 5. Expert Systems.- Some Aspects of an Architecture for Real-Time Expert Systems in Industrial Plant Automation and Supervision.- Rule-Based Modelling of Dynamical Systems.- Multi-Sensory Signal Fusion.- 6. Intelligent Robots.- Goal Oriented Behaviour of Robots for Space Applications.- Basic Principles of Intelligent Task Planning for Autonomous Robot Systems.- Collision Free Motion Planning for Robot-Manipulators.