This book presents cutting-edge results on stability analysis and control scheme designs for networked teleoperation systems. It highlights new research on commonly encountered nonlinear teleoperation systems, including the stability analysis of teleoperation systems with asymmetric time-varying delays, stability analysis of teleoperation systems with interval time delays, and so on. Moreover, the book presents several high-performance control scheme designs for teleoperation systems when the velocity is available and unavailable, and for systems with nonlinear input. The results presented here mark a substantial contribution to nonlinear teleoperation system theory, robotic control theory and networked control system theory. As such, the book will be of interest to university researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in control theory and control engineering who wish to learn about the core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications of networked teleoperation systems, robotic systems and nonlinear control systems.
Changchun Hua received the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China, in 2005. He was a research Fellow in National University of Singapore from 2006 to 2007. From 2007 to 2009, he worked in Carleton University, Canada, funded by Province of Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Program. From 2009 to 2011, he worked in University of Duisburg Essen, Germany, funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Now he is a full Professor in Yanshan University, China. He is the author or coauthor of more than 130 papers in mathematical, technical journals, and conferences. He has been involved in more than 10 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Education Committee Foundation of China, and other important foundations. His research interests are in nonlinear control systems, control systems design over network, teleoperation systems and intelligent control.
Yana Yang received her Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China, in 2017. Now she is a full Associate Professor in Yanshan University, China. She has been involved in more than 5 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Education Committee Foundation of China, and other important foundations. Her research interests are in nonlinear control systems, teleoperation systems and sliding mode control.
Xian Yang received her Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, China, in 2016. Now she is a full Associate Professor in Yanshan University, China. She has been involved in more than 6 projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Education Committee Foundation of China, and other important foundations. Her research interests are in control systems design over network and networked teleoperation systems.
Xinping Guan received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China, and the M.S. degree in applied mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering, both from Harbin Institute of Technology, in 1986, 1991, and 1999, respectively. He is with the Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the (co)author of more than 200 papers in mathematical, technical journals, and conferences. As (a)an (co)-investigator, he has finished more than 20 projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the National Education Committee Foundation of China, and other important foundations. He is Cheung Kong Scholars Programme Special appointment professor. His current research interests include networked control systems, robust control and intelligent control for complex systems and their applications. Dr. Guan is serving as a Reviewer of Mathematic Review of America, a Member of the Council of Chinese Artificial Intelligence Committee, and Chairmanof Automation Society of Hebei Province, China.
