Nonlinear Estimation &; Applications to Industrial Systems Control : From Medievalism to Fascism

This book analyses recent advances in non-linear state estimation and application of such estimation schemes to industrial systems control. This book is mainly addressed to graduate students, researchers and engineers working on the problems of estimation and control of non-linear dynamical systems. This book comes to address the increasing interest of the engineering community in control systems that process and integrate information coming from various types of sensors. By providing analysis on non-trivial problems of joint estimation and control for non-linear dynamical systems, according to recently developed filtering methods and non-linear control techniques, this book is a useful reference for researchers and engineers.