TY - BOOK ID - 4863039 TI - Coordination Control of Distributed Systems AU - van Schuppen, Jan H. AU - Villa, Tiziano. PY - 2015 SN - 9783319104072 3319104063 9783319104065 3319104071 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Engineering. KW - Control. KW - Systems Theory, Control. KW - Communications Engineering, Networks. KW - Systems theory. KW - Telecommunication. KW - Ingénierie KW - Télécommunications KW - Mechanical Engineering KW - Engineering & Applied Sciences KW - Mechanical Engineering - General KW - System theory. KW - Control engineering. KW - Electrical engineering. KW - Electric engineering KW - Engineering KW - Control engineering KW - Control equipment KW - Control theory KW - Engineering instruments KW - Automation KW - Programmable controllers KW - Systems, Theory of KW - Systems science KW - Science KW - Construction KW - Industrial arts KW - Technology KW - Philosophy KW - Control and Systems Theory. KW - Electric communication KW - Mass communication KW - Telecom KW - Telecommunication industry KW - Telecommunications KW - Communication KW - Information theory KW - Telecommuting KW - Automatic control. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4863039 AB - This book describes how control of distributed systems can be advanced by an integration of control, communication, and computation. The global control objectives are met by judicious combinations of local and nonlocal observations taking advantage of various forms of communication exchanges between distributed controllers. Control architectures are considered according to  increasing degrees of cooperation of local controllers:  fully distributed or decentralized control,  control with communication between controllers,  coordination control, and multilevel control.  The book covers also topics bridging computer science, communication, and control, like communication for control of networks, average consensus for distributed systems, and modeling and verification of discrete and of hybrid systems. Examples and case studies are introduced in the first part of the text and developed throughout the book. They include: control of underwater vehicles, automated-guided vehicles on a container terminal, control of a printer as a complex machine, and control of an electric power system. The book is composed of short essays each within eight pages, including suggestions and references for further research and reading. By reading the essays collected in the book Coordination Control of Distributed Systems, graduate students and post-docs will be introduced to the research frontiers in control of decentralized and of distributed systems. Control theorists and practitioners with backgrounds in electrical, mechanical, civil and aerospace engineering will find in the book information and inspiration to transfer to their fields of interest the state-of-art in coordination control.  . ER -