Critical approaches to care : understanding caring relations, identities and cultures / / edited by Chrissie Rogers and Susie Weller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785896003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-28093-6; 1-283-60606-2; 9786613918512; 1-136-28094-4; 0-203-11208-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Collana: Relationships & resources
• Altri autori (Persone): RogersChrissie; WellerSusie
• Disciplina: 362/.0425
• Soggetti: Caregivers; Families; Helping behavior; Interpersonal relations; Responsibility; Social networks; Social service; Women - Family relationships
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Endorsements; 1 Understanding care and thinking with care; PART I Caring within educational institutions; Part I Summary: caring within educational institutions; 2 Reclaiming care in early childhood education and care; 3 Revisiting care in schools: exploring the caring experiences of disengaged young people; 4 At risk pupils and the 'caring' curriculum; 5 A discourse analytic study of power as caring relations in Philippine university classrooms; PART II Caring amongst communities and networks; Part II Summary: caring amongst communities and networks6 A ; different way of caring? An exploration of alternative health care relationships; 7 'Men's business'? Black men's caring within black-led community organisations; 8 Tea and Tupperware: mommy blogging as care, work, and consumption; 9 Researching 'care', family and neighbourhood in Tehran, Iran; PART III Caring for and about families; Part III Summary: caring for and about families; 10 Foster care in ambiguous contexts: competing understandings of care; 11 Intellectual disability and mothering: an engagement with ethics of care and emotional work12 Working at post-divorce family life: the feminist ethics of care as a framework for exploring fathering after divorce or separation; PART IV Caring across the life course; Part IV Summary: caring across the life course; 13 Who cares? Exploring the shifting nature of care and caring practices in sibling relationships; 14 Care arrangements of transnational migrant elders: between family, community and the state; 15 Caring after death: issues of embodiment and relationality; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: What does 'care' mean in contemporary society? How are caring relationships practised in different contexts? What resources do individuals and collectives draw upon in order to care for, care with and care about themselves and others? How do such relationships and practices relate to broader social processes? Care shapes people's everyday lives and relationships and caring relations and practices influence the economies of different societies. This interdisciplinary book takes a nuanced and context-sensitive approach to exploring caring relationships, identities and practices within

Developments in Advanced Control and Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems / / edited by Min Wu, Witold Pedrycz, Luefeng Chen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910484586103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021
• ISBN: 3-030-62147-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2021.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 411 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, , 2198-4190 ; ; 329
• Disciplina: 629.8
• Soggetti: Automatic control; Robotics; Automation; Control and Systems Theory; Control, Robotics, Automation; Control automàtic; Robòtica; Llibres electrònics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Advanced Control Theory and Method -- Stability Analysis and Hinfty Control of Time-Delay Systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Stability Analysis Based on A Relaxed Integral Inequality -- 2.1 System Description -- 2.2 A Stability Criterion -- 2.3 A Numerical Example -- 3 Hinfty Control Design Based on A Parameter Tuning Method -- 3.1 Problem Formulation -- 3.2 Hinfty Performance Based Control Design -- 3.3 A Numerical Example -- 4 Load Frequency Control for A Delayed One-Area Power System -- 4.1 Dynamic Model of the LFC Scheme -- 4.2 Stability Assessment of PI-Based LFC Schemes -- 4.3 Design of the SF-Based LFC Scheme -- 4.4 Case Studies -- References -- Active Disturbance Rejection in Repetitive Control Systems -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Repetitive Control -- 2.1 Two-Dimensional Property of Repetitive Control -- 2.2 Modified Repetitive-Control System -- 3 Equivalent-Input-Disturbance Approach -- 3.1 Basic Concept of Equivalent Input Disturbance -- 3.2 Equivalent-Input-; Disturbance Estimation -- 3.3 Analysis of Disturbance Rejection -- 4 Disturbance Rejection for Repetitive Control System with Time-Varying Nonlinearity -- 4.1 Analysis and Design of Nonlinear MRCS -- 4.2 Design Algorithm for Nonlinear MRCS -- 4.3 Simulation Verification and Analysis -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Intelligent Control of Underactuated Mechanical System -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preparations -- 3 A Continuous Control Method for Planar Underactuated Manipulator with Passive First Joint -- 3.1 Continuous Controller Design -- 3.2 Optimization of Target Angles and Design Parameters -- 3.3 Simulations -- 4 A Unified Control Method for Planar Underactuated Manipulator with One Passive Joint -- 4.1 Trajectory Planning and Parameters Optimization -- 4.2 Trajectory Tracking Controllers Design -- 4.3 Simulations -- 5 Conclusion -- References.; Finite-Time Fault Detection and Hinfty State Estimation for Markov Jump Systems Under Dynamic Event-Triggered Mechanism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Finite-Time Fault Detection -- 2.1 Problem Formulation -- 2.2 Main Results -- 2.3 Detection Threshold Design -- 2.4 Numerical Example -- 3 Finite-Time Hinfty State Estimation -- 3.1 Problem Formulation -- 3.2 Main Results -- 3.3 Numerical Example -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Intelligent Control and Decision-Making of Complex Metallurgical Processes -- Intelligent Control of Sintering Process -- 1 Sintering Process and Characteristics Analysis -- 1.1 Iron Ore Sintering Process -- 1.2 Characteristics Analysis for Sintering Process -- 1.3 Control Objectives -- 2 Carbon Efficiency Prediction and Optimization -- 2.1 Carbon Efficiency Hybrid Prediction Model -- 2.2 Carbon Efficiency Intelligent Optimization -- 2.3 Experimental Results and Analysis -- 3 Intelligent Control of Sintering Ignition Based on the Prediction of Ignition Temperature -- 3.1 Control Requirements and Control Structure -- 3.2 Prediction Model of Ignition Temperature -- 3.3 Design of Intelligent Controller -- 3.4 Experiment and Result Analysis -- 4 Fuzzy Control of Burn-Through Point Based on the Feature Extraction of Time Series Trend -- 4.1 Control Requirements and Control Structure -- 4.2 Feature Extraction of Time Series Trend -- 4.3 Design of Fuzzy Controller -- 4.4 Experimental Study and Result Analysis -- 5 Optimization and Control System of Carbon Efficiency -- 5.1 Architecture of OCSCE -- 5.2 Implementation Scheme -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Decision-Making of Burden Distribution for Blast Furnace -- 1 Analysis of Ironmaking and Burden Distribution -- 1.1 Ironmaking Process -- 1.2 Gas Flow and Gas Utilization Rate -- 1.3 Effect of Burden Distribution -- 2 Prediction Model of Gas Utilization Rate.; 2.1 Prediction Model of GUR Based on Chaos Theory -- 2.2 Prediction Model of GUR Based on Case-Matching -- 2.3 Prediction Model of GUR Based on Multi-time-Scale -- 3 Decision-Making Strategy -- 3.1 Structure of Decision-Making Strategy -- 3.2 Decision-Making Procedure -- 3.3 Decision-Making Verification -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Intelligent System and Machine Learning -- Granular Computing: Fundamentals and System Modeling -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Information Granules and Information Granularity -- 3 Frameworks of Information Granules -- 4 Information Granules and Their Two-Phase Development Process -- 4.1 Clustering as a Prerequisite of Information Granules -- 4.2 The Principle of Justifiable Granularity -- 5 Augmentation of the Design Process of Information Granules -- 6 Symbolic View at Information Granules and Their Symbolic Characterization and Summarization -- 7 Granular Probes of Spatiotemporal Data -- 8 Granular Models -- 8.1 The Concept -- 8.2 Construction of Granular Models -- 9 Conclusions -- References -- Distributed Consensus Control for Nonlinear Multi-agent Systems -- 1 ; Introduction -- 1.1 Background and Related Work -- 1.2 Preliminaries -- 2 ADHDP-Based Distributed Consensus Control for MASs -- 2.1 Problem Formulation -- 2.2 ADHDP-Based Distributed Consensus Control Method -- 2.3 Implementation of the ADHDP-Based Distributed Consensus Control Method -- 2.4 Simulation Results -- 3 ADP-Based Distributed Model Reference Consensus Control for MASs -- 3.1 Problem Formulation -- 3.2 ADP-Based Distributed Model Reference Control Method -- 3.3 MRAC Scheme for Individual Agent -- 3.4 Distributed Value Iteration Algorithm -- 3.5 Simulation Studies -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Stochastic Consensus Control of Multi-agent Systems under General Noises and Delays -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Problem Formulation and Preliminary.; 3 Networks with Additive Noises -- 3.1 Mean Square Weak Consensus -- 3.2 Almost Sure Weak Consensus -- 3.3 Mean Square and Almost Sure Strong Consensus -- 4 Networks with Additive Noises and Delays -- 4.1 Mean Square Weak Consensus -- 4.2 Almost Sure Weak Consensus -- 4.3 Mean Square and Almost Sure Strong Consensus -- 5 Simulations -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Intention Understanding in Human-Robot Interaction -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Multimodal Emotion Recognition -- 1.2 Emotional Intention Understanding -- 1.3 Emotional Human-Robot Interaction System -- 1.4 The Structure of the Chapter -- 2 Multimodal Emotion Feature Extraction -- 2.1 Regions of Interest based Feature Extraction in Facial Expression -- 2.2 Sparse Coding-SURF based Feature Extraction in Body Gesture -- 2.3 FCM based Feature Extraction in the Speech Emotion -- 3 Multimodal Emotion Recognition -- 3.1 Softmax Regression based Deep Sparse Autoencoder Network for Facial Emotion Recognition -- 3.2 Multi-SVM based Dempster-Shafer Theory for Gesture Recognition Using Sparse Coding Feature -- 3.3 Two-Layer Fuzzy Multiple Random Forest for Speech Emotion Recognition -- 3.4 Two-stage Fuzzy Fusion based Convolution Neural Network for Dynamic Facial Expression and Speech Emotion Recognition -- 4 Emotion Intention Understanding -- 4.1 Three-Layer Weighted Fuzzy Support Vector Regression for Emotion Intention Understanding -- 4.2 Dynamic Emotion Understanding in Human-Robot Interaction Based on Two-layer Fuzzy SVR-TS Model -- 5 Experiments and Applications of Emotional Human-Robot Interaction System -- 5.1 Multimodal Emotional Human-Robot Interaction System -- 5.2 The Application Experiment of Emotional Human-Robot Interaction System -- 6 Conclusion -- References.; Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization for Multi-objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Real-time Traffic Conditions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 2.1 Basic Definitions -- 2.2 Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization Algorithms -- 3 Multi-objective Vehicle Routing Problem with Real-time Traffic Conditions -- 3.1 Road Network Topology -- 3.2 Formulation of MOVRPRTC -- 4 Offline Optimization and Online Optimization for MOVRPRTC -- 4.1 Framework of ALSDCMOEA -- 4.2 Online Optimization -- 5 Experiment -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Intelligent Robot System Design and Control -- Dielectric Elastomer Intelligent Devices for Soft Robots -- 1 Dynamic Modelling of Dielectric Elastomer Intelligent Actuator (DEIA) -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 DEIA Manufacture and Experiment Platform Description -- 1.3 DEIA Modelling -- 1.4 Parameter Identification of Dynamic Model -- 1.5 Model Validation -- 2 Study of Soft Force and Displacement Intelligent Sensor (SFDIS) -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Experiment System Description -- 2.3 SFDIS Modelling -- 2.4 Parameter Identification of Sensing Model -- 2.5 Model Validation -- 3 Conclusion -- References -- Design of a 2-DOF Compliant Micropositioning Stage with Large ; Workspace -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mechanical Design of XY Stage -- 2.1 Introduction of Basic Mechanisms -- 2.2 Propose of XY Stage -- 3 Static Modeling and Characteristic Analysis -- 3.1 Modeling of Single Flexure Hinges -- 3.2 Transform of Compliance Matrix -- 3.3 Compliance Matrix of Each Part -- 3.4 Output Compliance Matrix of XY Stage -- 3.5 Input Compliance of XY Stage -- 3.6 Amplification Ratio of XY Stage -- 4 Model Verification with FEA -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Assistive Robots -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Human-Body-Motion-Controlled Electric Wheelchair -- 2.1 Electric Wheelchair with Human-Body-Motion Interface -- 2.2 Tuning of Gain A -- 2.3 Experiments.; 2.4 Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book discusses the developments in the advanced control and intelligent automation for complex systems completed over the last two decades, including the progress in advanced control theory and method, intelligent control and decision-making of complex metallurgical processes, intelligent systems and machine learning, intelligent robot systems design and control, and prediction and control technology for renewable energy. With the depth and breadth of coverage of this book, it serves as a useful reference for engineers in the field of automation and complex process control and graduate students interested in advanced control theory and computational intelligence as well as their applications to the complex industrial processes. This book offers an up-to-date overview of this active research area. It provides readers with the state-of-the-art methods for advanced control and intelligent automation for complex systems.