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This book develops a general analysis and synthesis framework for impulsive and hybrid dynamical systems. Such a framework is imperative for modern complex engineering systems that involve interacting continuous-time and discrete-time dynamics with multiple modes of operation that place stringent demands on controller design and require implementation of increasing complexity--whether advanced high-performance tactical fighter aircraft and space vehicles, variable-cycle gas turbine engines, or air and ground transportation systems.
Impulsive and Hybrid Dynamical Systems goes beyond similar treatments by developing invariant set stability theorems, partial stability, Lagrange stability, boundedness, ultimate boundedness, dissipativity theory, vector dissipativity theory, energy-based hybrid control, optimal control, disturbance rejection control, and robust control for nonlinear impulsive and hybrid dynamical systems. A major contribution to mathematical system theory and control system theory, this book is written from a system-theoretic point of view with the highest standards of exposition and rigor. It is intended for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners of engineering and applied mathematics as well as computer scientists, physicists, and other scientists who seek a fundamental understanding of the rich dynamical behavior of impulsive and hybrid dynamical systems.
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This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Hybrid Systems Workshop held in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA in September 1998. The 23 revised full papers presented in the book have gone through two rounds of thorough reviewing and revision. The volume presents state-of-the-art research results and particularly addresses such areas as program verification, concurrent and distributed processes, logic programming, logics of programs, discrete event simulation, calculus of variations, optimization, differential geometry, Lie algebras, automata theory, dynamical systems, etc.
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Great synosis of hybrid systems.......2001-05-18
This book excellent for anyone interested in the complex and unique world of hybrid systems. Wolf Kohn is simply brilliant! Highly recommended. Many of the authors of this book are still pursuing careers in hybrid systems, most prominently with the Seattle-based company, Hynomics, which plans to go public soon.
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Control and Observer Design for Nonlinear Finite and Infinite Dimensional Systems (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences)
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This volume presents a well balanced combination of state-of-the-art theoretical results in the field of nonlinear controller and observer design, combined with industrial applications stemming from mechatronics, electrical, (bio–) chemical engineering, and fluid dynamics. The unique combination of results of finite as well as infinite–dimensional systems makes this book a remarkable contribution addressing postgraduates, researchers, and engineers both at universities and in industry. The contributions to this book were presented at the Symposium on Nonlinear Control and Observer Design: From Theory to Applications (SYNCOD), held September 15–16, 2005, at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The conference and this book are dedicated to the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr.–Ing. Dr.h.c. Michael Zeitz to honor his life – long research and contributions on the fields of nonlinear control and observer design.
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Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems: A Petri Net Structural Approach (Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications)
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Increasing complexity in engineering projects raises difficult challenges in industry and requires effective tools for correct-by-construction design or design verification. This book addresses the design of such tools for correct-by-construction synthesis of supervisors for systems and specifications represented in the discrete-event framework. The approach employed uses Petri nets as discrete-event models and structural methods for the synthesis of supervisors, and may lead to significant computational benefits.
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Hybrid Dynamical Systems
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The area of hybrid dynamical systems (HDS) represents a difficult and exciting challenge to control engineers and is referred to as "the control theory of tomorrow" because of its future potential for solving problems. This relatively new discipline bridges control engineering, mathematics, and computer science. There is now an emerging literature on this topic describing a number of mathematical models, heuristic algorithms, and stability criteria. However, presently there is no systematic theory of HDS. "Hybrid Dynamical Systems" focuses on a comprehensive development of HDS theory and integrates results established by the authors.
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Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 10th International Workshop, HSCC 2007, Pisa, Italy, April 3-5, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, HSCC 2007, held in Pisa, Italy in April 2007.
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Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 4th International Workshop, HSCC 2001 Rome, Italy, March 28-30, 2001 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, HSCC 2001, held in Rome, Italy, in March 2001. The 36 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 82 submissions. All current aspects of hybrid systems are addressed including formal models and methods and computational representations, algorithms and heuristics, computational tools, and innovative applications.
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Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 8th International Workshop, HSCC 2005, Zurich, Switzerland, March 9-11, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, HSCC 2005, held in Zurich, Switzerland in March 2005.
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In some respects, Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is just a big, absorbing drama about an American family, with the typical ingredients of an immigrant parent and some social obstacles--in this case, a biracial marriage in the Civil Rights era--to be overcome by the talented children. But Powers's lyrical gifts lift this material far above its familiar subject matter. His descriptions of music alone will transport the reader. The Strom family were raised with this common language: "Our parents' Crazed Quotations game played on the notion that every moment's tune had all history's music box for its counterpoint. On any evening in Hamilton Heights, we could jump from organum to atonality without any hint of all the centuries that had died fiery deaths between them." The central figure of this novel is the dazzling Jonah, who makes a life from singing, and who may be the only person around him who regards his racial heritage as irrelevant to his ambitions. Powers's is such a fertile writer, however, that he can't stay with any single story, but plunges into pages and pages of family and social histories. The result is a rambling, resonant, fearless novel that pulls the reader along in its wake. --Regina Marler
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On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish migr scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and-against all odds and better judgment-they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the Civil Rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, 'whose voice could make heads of state repent,' follows a life in his parents' beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both.
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On Easter Day, 1939, at Marian Anderson's epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Philadelphia Negro studying to be a concert singer. Against all odds, they marry, vowing to raise their offspring beyond time, beyond race, beyond belonging, steeped in song. But their children, Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth, must survive America's brutal here and now. As a polarized America threatens to tear the family apart, only their deep, shared love of song stands any hope of preserving them. Set against the sweeping backdrop of contemporary American history, The Time of Our Singing is nevertheless deeply personal and intimate, a heartrending tale of the power of music and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all identity.
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Time outlives everything.......2007-09-01
This is an amazing novel byRichard Powers. an ambitious generational tale of an American family with a mixed heritage of African-American and German Jew, and covers the travails, triumphs and tragedies of this family. There are three children, one with a beautiful singing voice who opts for a classical music career, a daughter who becomes involved with the civil rights struggle,and a second brother who, though gifted as well, buries his ambition to bridge the gap between his siblings. Not a perfect novel--sometimes Powers' superb style turns into a list of historical events as a means to convey the sweep of time-- but the central issues of race, identity, culture are handled well within the story. The writing is generous and frequently beautiful, especially at the moments when the description turns to the music. Powers, as well as any one, describes how notes played the right way can make one believe in heaven and the angels who live there.
An ambitious project........2007-05-07
It's a Richard Powers book concerning two brothers, both classical musicians, of different temperment and talent, born in the forties, their parents are a black Philadelphia aristocratic soprano woman and a Jewish physicist man who emigrated from Germany on the eve of World War II.
The couple homeschools their children and raises them on classical music and above race. As you can imagine, once the boys leave school, armed with music alone, the two navigate their life with a deep sense of alienation and social irresponsibility that comes with being passable black classical musicians in the nineteen fifties when there is a bloody revolution happening outside of your practice room and on the streets of America.
The book has an enormous and tumultuous span, from the 20s until the 90s, and should be considered an epic. I recommend it, but it's a qualified recommend. Powers is a bit relentless in his narrative, if you don't know anything about music, physics, or American history, he doesn't take time to catch you up. It didn't bother me, but that's because I happen to know music, physics, and American History. Had the story been about painting, chemistry, and Canadian History, I would have been looking up a lot of wikipedia.
Some of the relationships are truly touching, and at its best, the book is like the Adventures of Kavalier and Clay meets the Grapes of Wrath, which is a recipe for the Great American Novel, at its worst, Powers overwrites like Rushdie. It's a thoughtful, fantastic story of small people who never wanted to do anything big, but historical circumstance and love precluded them from living small.
There is a huge story he tries to tell. The structure necessary to contain the scope and the breadth of this story is awesome. Bravo. It wasn't an unqualified success, but I am definitely going to run out and read "The Prisoner's Dilemma."
Getting showing the impact of race in America on Black men is deeply difficult, but Powers succeeds in provocative ways.
Best read of the year to date.......2007-05-02
This is the first novel I have read by Richard Powers, and it knocked my socks off. A big book grappling with big issues: race, art, humanity's capacity to annihilate itself. What I admired most was that Powers' approach doesn't come to hard conclusions, but rather acknowledges that these issues are complex, that human beings respond to situations in myriad ways--nothing is preordained and life is finally mysterious, no matter what path you take. Besides inspiring a lot of rather philosophical musing about life, the novel is also a damned good read--I laughed, I cried, and when the book was done, I kept dreaming about these characters.
A rare treat.......2007-01-05
The most obvious attraction of this book is its language: rich and economical, often just suggestive enough to seed your imagination, something expected perhaps in a poem, but remarkable in a novel of this size.
The white man and the black woman chance upon meeting in each other a kindred soul that can equally share their singular love for music. Their love at first sound was long time in the making: they fell in love with the same music long before they met. At their catalytic encounter, they hit on new notes and surprise themselves with thinking out of the tribe. Together they discover the joy of improvisation and from that day on will never look back at scripted performance alone. This magic of the triple birth - two voices and the harmony they formed - inspires them to build a family around it.
Building up this tradition with their children, they share in daily singing sessions: creating harmony while actively helping each family member, including the youngest ones, develop their own voice. The two older brothers are defined by these early sessions, their lives governed by music. One could argue that the youngest Ruth is defined by these sessions as well, although in a different way: by the time they abruptly ended with her mother's death, Ruth needed these sessions, and her family, the most. She spent her life looking for the cause of Delia's death and fighting it. She rejected the music that, she was convinced, ultimately killed her mother, and she defined herself in opposition to the belief that brought her parents together. This book is as much about family as it is about music and race.
The intertwining stories of past and present form the DNA of the book. Their alternating chapter pattern with occasional cliff hangers at the end make up a lively and engaging structure.
Powers's special signature is his personal and poetic rendition of the art and science that he mixes in with the main characters of his books. In "Gold Bug Variations", it was molecular biology and Bach. In "Prisoner's Dilemma", it was game theory and pathology. In "The Time of Our Singing", it is music and theory of relativity. Here, for physics he chooses the most difficult delivery: in the voice of the scientist at the top of the field, explaining his work to his children. As for the music, it is not simply the inspiration bringing out the best in many characters of the book, or only the force connecting parents with children and children with each other. More importantly, it clearly inspires Powers and elevates the narrative to the state of grace.
For all the other merits of the book, for its fresh look at race in America, for its colorful characters and unexpected situations, I would most readily pick it up again for its language, for the beautifully crafted prose.
Many Old Ideas.......2006-12-17
I really like Powers - as a scientist I appreciate his ability to write intelligently about a world that includes maths and physics - and I have read many of his books. I'm unsure what order they were published in, so it may be that what follows would apply to another book if you are reading in chronological order, but this book contained many ideas (motifs? ticks?) from the work I was already familiar with.
In particular, there's a long (this is not a short book) rehash of "relationship failing due to sense of indebtedness". I assume this is taken from the author's own life (I recall something similar in (what I assume was) the semi-autobiographical Galatea 2.2). Richard Powers, if you're reading this: please, get over it. I am tired of paying to be your therapist. OK?
The historical context was fascinating - I learnt a huge amount - but both Goldberg and Galatea are better books. At least, if you read them before this one.
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Title: Richard Powers. The Time of Our Singing.(Book Review)
Author: W.M. Hagen
Publication:
World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2005
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 79
Issue: 1
Page: 91(2)
Article Type: Book Review
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