Nonlinear Control of Vehicles and Robots

Professor Béla Lantos is based at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and is lead researcher for leads many scientific grants related to robot and vehicle control. Currently, He leads the ‘Advanced Control Theory and Artificial Intelligence Techniques of Autonomous Ground, Aerial, and Marine Robots’ research group, financed by Hungarian National Research program under grant No. OTKA K 71762.Lorinc Márton is an assistant lecturer at Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania and is a grantee of Janos Bolyai postdoctoral scholarship, financed by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is also a senior researcher in the OTKA K 71762 research program.

• Introduction.- Basic Nonlinear Control Methods.- Dynamic Models of Ground, Aerial and Marine Robots.- Nonlinear Control of Industrial Robots.- Nonlinear Control of Cars.- Nonlinear Control of Airplanes and Helicopters.- Nonlinear Control of Surface Ships.- Formation Control of Vehicles.- Modeling Mechanical Systems with Non-smooth Nonlinearities.- Mechanical Control Systems with Non-smooth Nonlinearities.- Model-based Identification and Adaptive Compensation of Non-smooth Nonlinearities.- Conclusions and Future Research Directions.- Appendices.

From the reviews:“The presented book first briefly outlines the most important nonlinear control algorithms that can be applied for the control of mechanical systems. … The book is aimed at researchers who are interested in modern control algorithms and advanced modeling techniques of the most common mechatronic systems: vehicles and robots.” (Bojidar Cheshankov, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1236, 2012)