Honouring the life-long, celebrated contributions of Professor Shinji Hara to the developments of numerous control theories, this book features a collection of the latest papers from leading researchers in the field. The results presented in the book lay a solid foundation for new control theories to be developed in the future.
The book explores the key concept of glocal control. The term ‘glocal’ is derived from ‘global’ and ‘local’, and glocal control is a technical term in the field of control engineering, coined by Prof. Hara, which means control of dynamical systems with local sensing and actuation to achieve a desired global behaviour.
A large number of dynamical components can be interconnected and interact with each other to form an integrated system with certain functionalities. Such complex systems are found in nature and have been created by man, including gene regulatory networks, neuronal circuits for memory, bird flocking, electrical power grids, and financial markets. A common feature of these systems is that a global property or function emerges as a result of local, distributed, dynamical interactions of components. The objective of glocal control is to understand the mechanisms underlying this feature, analysing existing complex systems, and to design and create innovative systems with new functionalities.
The concept of glocal control has been gaining much attention recently in the control engineering community and is an emerging research interest.
Preface
Selected Publications of Shinji Hara
List of Contributors
Part I : Robust and Optimal Control
Chapter 1 : Measurement-Based Control Design for Unknown Systems
Chapter 2 : Quantized Linear Quadratic Gaussian Control for Scalar Systems
Chapter 3 : Robust H Filter Design for Nonuniformly Sampled Systems
Chapter 4 : Analysis of Frequency Response Across Switching
Chapter 5 : Optimal Tracking and Power Allocation Over AWN Feedback Channels
Chapter 6 : Stability Analysis for a Class of Hamiltonian Systems with Digital Control
Part II : Mathematical System and Control Theory
Chapter 7 : Maximizing Mutual Information Between Random Variable and Applications to order Reduction of Stochastic Processes
Chapter 8 : On Compact Sets in the Graph Topology
Chapter 9 : Matrix Pencils in Time and Frequency Domain System Identification
Chapter 10 : Identification of Nonparametric Piecewise Affine Models Via Data Compression
Chapter 11 : Performance Benefits in Two-axle Railway Vehicle Suspensions Employing Inerters
Chapter 12 : Stabilization of Quantum Spin Systems via Continuous Feedback Control
Part III : Networked Dynamical Systems and Glocal Control
Chapter 13 : Combining Distance-Based Formation Shape Control with Formation Translation
Chapter 14 : Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
Chapter 15 : Distributed Ramdomized PageRank Algorithms over Unreliable Channels
Chapter 16 : Stabilization of Multi-Input Networked Control Systems over Additive white Gaussian Noise Channels
Chapter 17 : Clustering of Large-Scale Dynamical Networks for Glocal Control
Chapter 18 : Glocal Control for Natural Oscillations
In Memory of Hisaya Fujioka
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