Advanced Control Systems : Theory and Applications

Advanced Control Systems: Theory and Applications provides an overview of advanced research lines in control systems as well as in design, development and implementation methodologies for perspective control systems and their components in different areas of industrial and special applications.

It consists of extended versions of the selected papers presented at the XXV International Conference on Automatic Control "Automatics 2018" (September 18-19, 2018, Lviv, Ukraine) which is the main Ukrainian Control Conference organized by Ukrainian Association on Automatic Control (National member organization of IFAC) and Lviv National University "Lvivska Politechnica". More than 100 papers were presented at the conference with topics including: mathematical problems of control, optimization and game theory; control and identification under uncertainty; automated control of technical, technological and biotechnical objects; controlling the aerospace craft, marine vessels and other moving objects; intelligent control and information processing; mechatronics and robotics; information measuring technologies in automation; automation and IT training of personnel; the Internet of things and the latest technologies.

The book is divided into two main parts, the first concerning theory (7 chapters) and the second concerning applications (7 chapters) of advanced control systems.

The first part "Advances in Theoretical Research on Automatic Control" consists of theoretical research results which deal with descriptor control impulsive delay systems, motion control in condition of conflict, inverse dynamic models, invariant relations in optimal control, robust adaptive control, bio-inspired algorithms, optimization of fuzzy control systems, and extremal routing problem with constraints and complicated cost functions, .

The second part "Advances in Control Systems Applications" is based on the chapters which consider different aspects of practical implementation of advanced control systems, in particular, special cases in determining the spacecraft position and attitude using computer vision system, the spacecraft orientation by information from a system of stellar sensors, control synthesis of rotational and spatial spacecraft motion at approaching stage of docking, intelligent algorithms for the automation of complex biotechnical objects, an automatic control system for the slow pyrolysis of organic substances with variable composition, simulation complex of hierarchical systems based on the foresight and cognitive modelling, and advanced identification of impulse processes in cognitive maps.

The chapters have been structured to provide an easy-to-follow introduction to the topics that are addressed, including the most relevant references, so that anyone interested in this field can get started in the area. This book may be useful for researchers and students who are interesting in advanced control systems.

Yuriy P. Kondratenko received the Ph.D. degree in 1983 and the D.Sc. degree in 1994 in computer and control systems from Odessa National Polytechnic University. He is the Doctor of Science (habil.), Professor, Honour Inventor of Ukraine (2008), Corr. Academician of Royal European Academy of Doctors - Barcelona 1914 (2000), and the Head of Intelligent Information Systems Department at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine. He is the regional coordinator of Tempus (Cabriolet) and Erasmus+ (Aliot) projects, principal researcher of several international research projects with Spain, Germany, P.R. of China, and others. He is the author of more than 140 patents and 14 books (including edited monographs) published by Springer, River Publishers, World Scientific, Pergamon Press, Academic Verlag, etc. His research interests include intelligent decision support systems, automation, sensors and control systems, fuzzy logic, soft computing, modelling and simulation, robotics, and elements and devices of computing systems. Dr. Kondratenko received several international grants and scholarships for conducting research at Institute of Automation of Chongqing University, P. R. China (1988-1989), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (2000 and 2010), Nazareth College, and Cleveland State University, USA (2003). In 2015, he received Fulbright grant for conducting research during nine months in USA (Cleveland State University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the National Council of Ukraine on Development of Science and Technology, National Committee of Ukrainian Association on Automatic Control, as well as GAMM, DAAAM, AMSE UAPL, and PBD-Honor Society of International Scholars, and a Visiting Lecturer at the universities in Rochester, Cleveland, Kassel, Vladivostok, and Warsaw. He is a member of Editorial Boards of journals such as Journal of Automation and Information Sciences, International Journal of Computing, Eastern European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, International Research and Review: Journal of Phi Beta Delta, Quantitative Methods in Economics, and others.

Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich graduated from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1952. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1959 and the D.Sc. degree in 1965. He is a Professor (1967), Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1992), and the Honorary Director of Space Research Institute of NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine. He worked with the Institute of Electrical Engineering from 1958 to 1963, with the Institute of Cybernetics from 1963 to 1996, and with the Space Research Institute from 1996. He is the founder of the National School in the field of discrete control systems, and he made a significant contribution to the development of modern theory of adaptive and robust control under uncertainty. Dr. Kuntsevich is the Honored Figure of Science and Technology of Ukraine (1999), Laureate of the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1978 and 1991) and Ukraine (2000) in the field of science and technology, and a recipient of the S. Lebedev Award (1987), V. Glushkov Award (1995), and V. Mikhalevich Award (2003). He serves as the editorial staff of several journals such as Journal of Automation and Information Sciences, Cybernetics and Systems Analysis. He is the author of 8 books and over 250 articles. He is the Chairman of the National Committee of Ukrainian Association on Automatic Control (NMO of IFAC).

Arkadii A. Chikrii received the Ph.D. degree in 1972 and the D.Sc. degree in 1979. He is a Professor (1989), Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2018), and Head of the department "Optimization of Controlled Processes" of the Institute of Cybernetics, NAS of Ukraine. After graduation from Ivan Franko Lviv University in 1968, has been working with the Institute of Cybernetics. He is a Professor of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Professor of Ihor Sykorski National Technical University, and Professor of Yurij Fedkovich Chernivtsi National University. He is a specialist in the field of applied nonlinear analysis, theory of extremal problems, mathematical theory of control, theory of dynamic games, theory of search for moving objects, and computer technologies for analysis of conflict situations. He is the disciple and follower of L.S. Pontryagin, N.N. Krasovskii, and B.N. Pshenichnyi. He is the author of 6 books and over 550 articles. Dr. Chikrii is the Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology (1999), a recipient of Glushkov Award (2003), and the Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of education (2018). He is the Editor-in-Chief for the journal "Problemy Upravleniya I Informatiki" published in English in the USA under the title "Journal of Automation and Information Sciences" (since 2020).