Background The evolving concepts of pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing and
ambient intelligence are increasingly influencing health care and medicine. Summarizing …

Field theory is a more or less coherent approach in the social sciences whose essence is
the explanation of regularities in individual action by recourse to position vis-à-vis others …

While linear model predictive control is popular since the 70s of the past century, the 90s
have witnessed a steadily increasing attention from control theoretists as well as control …

This paper considers the problem of distributed control of dynamically coupled nonlinear
systems that are subject to decoupled constraints. Examples of such systems include certain …

Active suspensions influencing the vertical dynamics of vehicles enable the improvement of
ride comfort and handling characteristics compared to vehicles with passive suspensions. If …

This work presents a novel distributed model predictive control (DMPC) strategy for
controlling multi-vehicle systems moving in formation. The vehicles' motion trajectories are …

A KEY operational factor of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) utility is long endurance flight [1].
Omitting the pilot allows flight times far beyond that of human endurance with a very compact …

This paper considers an energy management problem for an electric vehicle and explains
how to solve it with an inversion-based approach. Modeling assumptions are discussed and …

This paper presents some preliminary results on combining two new ideas from nonlinear
control theory and dynamic optimization. We show that the computational framework …

This paper exposes a methodology to solve state and input constrained optimal control
problems for nonlinear systems. In the presented 'interior penalty'approach, constraints are …