By: Firdaus E. Udwadia (Editor), H. Weber (Editor), George Leitmann (Editor)

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The 11th International Workshop on Dynamics and Control brought together scientists and engineers from diverse fields and gave them a venue to develop a greater understanding of this discipline and how it relates to many areas in science, engineering, economics, and biology. The event gave researchers an opportunity to investigate ideas and techniques from outside their own fields of expertise, enabling a cross-pollination of dynamics and control perspectives. Now there is a book that documents the major presentations of the workshop, providing a foundation for further research.
The range and diversity of papers in Dynamical Systems and Control demonstrate the remarkable reach of the subject. All of these contributed papers shed light on a multiplicity of physical, biological, and economic phenomena through lines of reasoning that originate and grow from this discipline.
The editors divide the book into three parts. The first covers fundamental advances in dynamics, dynamical systems, and control. These papers represent ideas that can be applied to several areas of interest. The second part deals with new and innovative techniques and their application to a variety of interesting problems, from the control of cars and robots, to the dynamics of ships and suspension bridges, and the determination of optimal spacecraft trajectories. The third section relates to social, economic, and biological issues. It reveals the wealth of understanding that can be obtained through a dynamics and control approach to issues such as epidemics, economic games, neo-cortical synchronization, and human posture control.

List of contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
A geometric approach to the mechanics of densely folded media	p. 3
On a general principle of mechanics and its application to general non-ideal nonholonomic constraints	p. 21
Mathematical analysis of vibrations of nonhomogeneous filament with one end load	p. 33
Expanded point mapping analysis of periodic systems	p. 53
A preliminary analysis of the phase portrait's structure of a nonlinear pendulum-mechanical system using the perturbed Hamiltonian formulation	p. 77
A review of rigid-body collision models in the plane	p. 91
Optimal round-trip Earth-Mars trajectories for robotic flight and manned flight	p. 109
Aircraft take-off in windshear: a viability approach	p. 127
Stability of torsional and vertical motion of suspension bridges subject to stochastic wind forces	p. 145
Time delayed control of structural systems	p. 163
Robust real- and discrete-time control of a steer-by-wire system in cars	p. 207
Optimal placement of piezoelectric sensor/actuators for smart structures vibration control	p. 221
A review of new vibration issues due to non-ideal energy sources	p. 237
Identification of flexural stiffness parameters of beams	p. 259
Active noise control caused by airflow through a rectangular duct	p. 271
Dynamical features of an autonomous two-body floating system	p. 283
Dynamics and control of a flexible rotating arm through the movement of a sliding mass	p. 299
Measuring chaos in gravitational waves	p. 319
Estimation of the attractor for an uncertain epidemic model	p. 337
Liar paradox viewed by the fuzzy logic theory	p. 351
Pareto-improving cheating in an economic policy game	p. 363
Dynamic investment behavior taking into account ageing of the capital goods	p. 379
A mathematical approach towards the issue of synchronization in neocortical neural networks	p. 393
Optimal control of human posture using algorithms based on consistent approximations theory	p. 407
Subject Index	p. 431
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ISBN: 9780415309974
ISBN-10: 0415309972
Series: Stability and Control: Theory, Methods and Applications
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 437
Published: 10th May 2004
Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 17.8  x 2.9
Weight (kg): 0.971