Control Systems: Theory and Applications (River Publishers Series in Automation, Control, and Robotics)

In recent years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the development of advanced methods of control theory with focus on its practical implementation in various fields of human activity such as space control, robotics, control applications in marine systems, control processes in agriculture and food production.

Control Systems: Theory and Applications consists of selected best papers which were presented at the XXIV International Conference on Automatic Control "Automatics 2017" (September 13-15, 2017, Kyiv, Ukraine) organized by the Ukrainian Association on Automatic Control (National member organization of IFAC - International Federation on Automatic Control) and the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. More than 120 presentations where discussed at the conference, with participation of the scientists from numerous countries.

The book is divided into two main parts, the first on Theory of Automatic Control (5 chapters) and the second on Control Systems Applications (8 chapters). The selected chapters provide an overview of challenges in the area of control systems design, modeling, engineering and implementation and the approaches and techniques that relevant research groups within this area are employing to try to resolve these.

This book on advanced methods of control theory and successful cases in the practical implementation is ideal for personnel in modern technological processes automation and SCADA systems, robotics, space and marine industries as well as academic staff and master/research students in computerized control systems, automatized and computer-integrated systems, electrical and mechanical engineering.

Vsevolod M. Kuntsevich is with the Space Research Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and State Space Agency of Ukraine.

Vyacheslav F. Gubarev is Doctor of Science (1992), Professor, Corresponding member National Academy of Science of Ukraine (2006), Professor of Mathematic Methods of System Analysis Department, Kiev National Technical University, Ukraine, Head of Control Department, Space Research Institute, National Academy of Science, Ukraine.

Professor Gubarev received a Ph.D. (1971) and a D.Sci. (1992) in System Analysis and Automatic Control from Institute of Cybernetic National Academy of Science, Ukraine. He has taken part in several international grants with Russia Academy of Science, Moscow State University and others.

His research interests include mathematical modelling of complex systems, automatic control, estimation and identification, ill-posed mathematical problems, dynamic and control under uncertainty, and spacecraft control systems.

He is part of the editorial staff of several journals including Problemy Upravleniya I Informatiki and Cybernetics and Systems Analysis. He is vice-chairman of the Ukrainian Association of Automatic Control, which is an NMO of IFAC.

Yuriy P. Kondratenko is Doctor of Science (habil.); Professor; Honor Inventor of Ukraine (2008); Corr. Academician of Royal European Academy of Doctors - Barcelona1914 (2000); and Head of Intelligent Information Systems Department at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, Ukraine.

He received a Ph.D (1983) and a D.Sci. (1994) in Computer and Control Systems from Odessa National Polytechnic University.

He has received several international grants and scholarships for conducting research from Institute of Automation of Chongqing University, P.R. China (1988–1989), Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (2000, 2010), Nazareth College and Cleveland State University (2003). In 2015 he received a Fulbright grant to conduct research for 9 months at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cleveland State University.

He is an author of more than 700 publications, including 140 patents and 14 books published by Springer, River Publishers, etc.

He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the National Council of Ukraine on Development of Science and Technology, National Committee of Ukrainian Association on Automatic Control,as well as visiting lecturer at the universities in Rochester, Cleveland, Kassel, Vladivostok and Warsaw. He is a member of Editorial Boards of such journals as Journal of Automation and Information Sciences, International Journal of Computing, Eastern European Journal of Enterprise Technologies, International Research and Review: Journal of Phi Beta Delta, Quantitative Methods in Economics and others.

His research interests include intelligent decision support systems, automation, sensors and control systems, fuzzy logic, soft computing, modelling and simulation, and robotics.

Dmytro Lebedev is with National Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine.

Vitalii Lysenko is with National University of Life and Environmental Sciences, Ukraine.