Applications of Intelligent Control to Engineering Systems

Part I. Diagnostics, Prognostics, Condition-Based Maintenance

1. Selected Prognostic Methods with Application to an Integrated Health Management System
Carl S. Byington, Michael J. Roemer

2. Advances in Uncertainty Representation and Management for Particle Filtering Applied to Prognostics
Marcos Orchard, Gregory Kacprzynski, Kai Goebel, Bhaskar Saha, George Vachtsevanos

3. A Novel Blind Deconvolution De-Noising Scheme in Failure Prognosis
Bing Zhang, Taimoor Khawaja, Romano Patrick, George Vachtsevanos, Marcos Orchard, Abhinav Saxena

4. Particle Filter Based Anomaly Detection for Aircraft Actuator Systems
D. Brown, G. Georgoulas, H. Bae, G. Vachtsevanos, R. Chen, Y. H. Ho, G. Tannenbaum, J. B. Schroeder

Part II. Unmanned Aerial Systems

5. Design of a Hardware and Software Architecture for Unmanned Vehicles: A Modular Approach
Richard Garcia, Laura Barnes, Kimon P. Valavanis

6. Designing a Real-time Vision System for Small Unmanned Rotorcraft: A Minimal and Cost-Effective Approach
M. Kontitsis, K. P. Valavanis

7. Coordination of Helicopter UAVs for Aerial Forest-Fire Surveillance
K. Alexis, G. Nikolakopoulos, A. Tzes, L. Dritsas

8. Genetic Fuzzy Rule-Based Classifiers for Land Cover Classification from Multispectral Images
D. G. Stavrakoudis, J. B. Theocharis, G. C. Zalidis

Part III. Bioengineering/Neurotechnology

9. Epileptic Seizures May Begin Hours in Advance of Clinical Onset: A Report of Five Patients*
Brian Litt, Rosana Esteller, Javier Echauz, Maryann D'Alessandro, Rachel Shor, Thomas Henry, Page Pennell, Charles Epstein, Roy Bakay, Marc Dichter, George Vachtsevanos

10. Intelligent Control Strategies for Neurostimulation
Javier Echauz, Hiram Firpi, George Georgoulas

Part VI. Intelligent Control Systems

11. Software Technology for Implementing Reusable, Distributed Control Systems
Bonnie S. Heck, Linda M. Wills, George J. Vachtsevanos

12. UGV Localization Based on Fuzzy Logic and Extended Kalman Filtering
Athanasios Tsalatsanis, Kimon P. Valavanis, Ali Yalcin

13. Adaptive Estimation of Fuzzy Cognitive Networks and Applications
T. L. Kottas, Y. S. Boutalis, M. A. Christodoulou

14. An Improved Method in Receding Horizon Control with Updating of Terminal Cost Function
Hongwei Zhang, Jie Huang, Frank L. Lewis

15. Identifier-Based Discovery in Large-Scale Networks An Economic Perspective
Joud Khoury, Chaouki T. Abdallah

Keywords: Engineering, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems, Simulation and Modeling