1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792478703321

Autore

Sastry Shankar

Titolo

Nonlinear Systems [[electronic resource] ] : Analysis, Stability, and Control / / by Shankar Sastry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1999

ISBN

1-4757-3108-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 1999.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVI, 668 p.)

Collana

Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, , 0939-6047 ; ; 10

Classificazione

93Cxx

93Dxx

Disciplina

515.64

Soggetti

Calculus of variations

Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"With 193 Illustrations."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Linear vs. Nonlinear -- 2 Planar Dynamical Systems -- 3 Mathematical Background -- 4 Input-Output Analysis -- 5 Lyapunov Stability Theory -- 6 Applications of Lyapunov Theory -- 7 Dynamical Systems and Bifurcations -- 8 Basics of Differential Geometry -- 9 Linearization by State Feedback -- 10 Design Examples Using Linearization -- 11 Geometric Nonlinear Control -- 12 Exterior Differential Systems in Control -- 13 New Vistas: Multi-Agent Hybrid Systems -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

There has been a great deal of excitement in the last ten years over the emer­ gence of new mathematical techniques for the analysis and control of nonlinear systems: Witness the emergence of a set of simplified tools for the analysis of bifurcations, chaos, and other complicated dynamical behavior and the develop­ ment of a comprehensive theory of geometric nonlinear control. Coupled with this set of analytic advances has been the vast increase in computational power available for both the simulation and visualization of nonlinear systems as well as for the implementation in real time of sophisticated, real-time nonlinear control laws. Thus, technological advances havebolstered the impact of analytic advances and produced a tremendous variety of new problems and applications that are nonlinear in an essential way. Nonlinear controllaws have been



implemented for sophisticated flight control systems on board helicopters, and vertical take offand landing aircraft; adaptive, nonlinearcontrollaws havebeen implementedfor robot manipulators operating either singly, or in cooperation on a multi-fingered robot hand; adaptive control laws have been implemented forjetengines andautomotive fuel injection systems, as well as for automated highway systems and air traffic management systems, to mention a few examples. Bifurcation theory has been used to explain and understand the onset of fiutterin the dynamics of aircraft wing structures, the onset of oscillations in nonlinear circuits, surge and stall in aircraft engines, voltage collapse in a power transmission network.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967165903321

Titolo

Eye movement : theory, interpretation, and disorders / / Dominic P. Anderson, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2011

ISBN

1-61728-742-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Eye and vision research developments

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersonDominic P

Disciplina

612.8/46

Soggetti

Eye - Movements

Eye - Movement disorders

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

Eye movements in non-visual cognition / Dragana Micic, Howard Ehrlichman -- Eye movements in congenital nystagmus and oculomotor systems alterations / Pasquariello Giulio ... [et al.] -- Fixational eye movements and ocular aberrometry / Justo Arines Piferrer -- Eye-movement patterns in hemispatial neglect / Sergio Chieffi ... [et al.] -- Eye-gaze input system based on image analysis under natural light / Kiyohiko Abe, Shoichi Ohi, Minoru Ohyama -- What we see and where we look : bottom-up and top-down / Laura Perez Zapata, Maria Sole Puig, Hans Supèr -- Characterizing eye movements for performance evaluation of software review / Hidetake Uwano -- The ontogenetic



hypothesis of rapid eye movement sleep function revisited / James P. Shaffery, Howard Roffwarg -- Behavioral elements during face processing : eye and head movement activity and their connection to physiological arousal / Andreas Altorfer ... [et al.].

Sommario/riassunto

Eye movements are a key factor in human vision. During steady state fixation where the visual attention is voluntarily centered on a fixation estimulous, the eye shows involuntary small movements that exhibit an erratic trajectory. This new book describes fixational eye movements, their mathematical models, and the factors that affect fixation. Also explored, herein, is Congential Nystagmus, which is one of the diseases that affect binocular vision, reducing the visual quality of a subject, saccadic eye movements, eye movement patterns in hemispatial neglect and eye-gaze input systems used by people with severe disabilities.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961364103321

Autore

Ward Graham

Titolo

Cities of God / / Graham Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

1-134-63241-X

1-134-63242-8

1-280-35472-0

0-203-25719-7

0-203-19043-2

9786610354726

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

Radical orthodoxy

Disciplina

230.01

Soggetti

Philosophical theology

Christianity and culture

Church and the world

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

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction:



the signs of the times; Cultural atomism; Cities of eternal aspiration; Cities of endless desire; The analogical world-view; Transcorporeality: the ontological scandal; The displaced body of Jesus Christ; Communities of desire; The Church as the erotic community; The erotics of redemption; Theology and the practices of contemporary living; Cities of angels; Cities of the good: the redemption of cyberspace; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cities of God traces urban culture of north America and Western Europe during the 1970's, to ask how theology can respond to the postmodern city. Since Harvey Cox published his famous theological response to urban living during the mid-1960s very little has been written to address this fundamental subject. Through analyses of contemporary film, architecture, literature, and traditional theological resources in Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, Graham Ward lays out a systematic theology which has the preparation and building of cities as its focus. This is vital reading for all those inte