Abstract In recent years, Economic Model Predictive Control (EMPC) has received
considerable attention of many research groups. The present tutorial survey summarizes …

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 …

A new system equivalence relation, using the framework of differential geometry of jets and
prolongations of infinite order, is studied. In this setting, two systems are said to be …

A nonlinear MPC framework is presented that is suitable for dynamical systems with
sampling times in the (sub) millisecond range and that allows for an efficient implementation …

This paper considers the problem of real‐time trajectory generation and tracking for
nonlinear control systems. We employ a two‐degree‐of‐freedom approach that separates …

Flat systems, an important subclass of nonlinear control systems introduced via differential-
algebraic methods, are defined in a differential geometric framework. We utilize the infinite …

The combination of backstepping-based state-feedback control and flatness-based
trajectory planning and feedforward control is considered for the design of an exponentially …

This paper investigates the relations between three different properties, which are of
importance in optimal control problems: dissipativity of the underlying dynamics with respect …

Vibrations in mechanical systems are oscillations occurring without being intentionally
provoked. They often have detrimental effects on the system performance and may cause …