Modelling And Control Of Mechanical Systems: Proceedings of the Workshop

    This volume provides a general picture of the current trends in the area of automatic control, with particular emphasis on practical problems in the mechanical field. For this reason, besides theoretical contributions, it presents selected lectures on recent developments interesting from an industrial point of view, such as automotive, robotics, motion control, and electrical drives.

1 Interconnected Mechanical Systems, Part I: Geometry of Interconnection and Implicit Hamiltonian Systems
2 Interconnected Mechanical Systems, Part II: The Dynamics of Spatial Mechanical Networks
3 A Network-Theoretical and Diakoptical Approach to Multi-Body Systems
4 Review of Results on Variable Structure Control for Application to Mechanical Systems
5 On the Controllability and Observability Function of Nonlinear Control
6 Passivity朆ased Control of Euler朙agrange Systems: Applications to Robots, AC Motors and Power Converters
7 The Analysis of Motorcycle Dynamics and Control
8 A Mechanical Network Approach to Performance Capabilities of Passive Suspensions
9 Fuzzy Logic Control of a Variable Displacement Hydraulic Pump
10 Experimental Identification of Robot Manipulators
11 Some Results in the Control of Flexible Mechanical Systems
12 The Perfect Tracking Problem for Nonminimum Phase Systems: Applications to Flexible-Link Robots
13 On Some Structural Properties of General Manipulation Systems
14 Design of Parallel Force/Position Controllers and Observers for Robot Manipulators
15 Motion Equations of Mechanical Systems Subject to Impacts
16 Hybrid Feedback Strategies for the Control of Juggling Robots
17 Invariant Manifolds: A Tool for Stabilisation
18 Invariant Manifold Techniques for Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems
19 Discontinuous Control of the Nonholonomic Integrator
20 Computational Models for the Simulation of Contact Phenomena in Multibody Systems