Product Description: This monograph presents recent advances in differential flatness theory and analyzes its use for nonlinear control and estimation. It shows how differential flatness theory can provide solutions to complicated control problems, such as those appearing in highly nonlinear multivariable systems and distributed-parameter systems...read more

Product Description: Fault detection and isolation is an important topic for researchers in the area of robotics and for industrial systems engineers. The need for a systematic method that will permit preventive maintenance through the diagnosis of incipient faults is obvious...read more

Product Description: In recent years, there has been growing interest in industrial systems, especially in robotic manipulators and mobile robot systems. As the cost of robots goes down and become more compact, the number of industrial applications of robotic systems increases...read more