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World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Series A - Vol. 46

SYNCHRONIZATION OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

by Henk Nijmeijer (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) & Alejandro Rodriguez-Angeles (Instituto Mexicano del Petroleo (IMP), Mexico)

The main goal of this book is to prove analytically and validate experimentally that synchronization in multi-composed mechanical systems can be achieved in the case of partial knowledge of the state vector of the systems, i.e. when only positions are measured. For this purpose, synchronization schemes based on interconnections between the systems, feedback controllers and observers are proposed.

Because mechanical systems include a large variety of systems, and since it is impossible to address all of them, the book focuses on robot manipulators. Nonetheless the ideas developed here can be extended to other mechanical systems, such as mobile robots, motors and generators.


Contents:

  • Preliminaries
  • External Synchronization of Rigid Joint Robots
  • External Synchronization of Flexible Joint Robots
  • Mutual Synchronization of Rigid Joint Robots
  • An Experimental Case Study
  • Synchronization in Other Mechanical Systems


Readership: Students and researchers in mechanical engineering and control theory.


“It is proven analytically and validated experimentally, that synchronization in multi-component mechanical systems can be achieved in the case of partial knowledge of the state vector of the system. This publication makes access to earlier work and especially to Russian sources much easier.”

Zentralblatt MATH




220pp Pub. date: Oct 2003
ISBN 978-981-238-605-2
981-238-605-X
US$75 / £55


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Updated on 8 September 2008