Innovative Control Systems for Tracked Vehicle Platforms

 This book has been motivated by an urgent need for designing and implementation of innovative control algorithms and systems for tracked vehicles. Nowadays the unmanned vehicles are becoming more and more common. Therefore there is a need for innova

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Aleksander M. Nawrat Editor

Innovative Control Systems for Tracked Vehicle Platforms

Studies in Systems, Decision and Control Volume 2

Series editor Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland e-mail: [email protected]

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/13304

Aleksander M. Nawrat Editor

Innovative Control Systems for Tracked Vehicle Platforms

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Editor Aleksander M. Nawrat Institute of Automatic Control Silesian University of Technology Gliwice Poland

ISSN 2198-4182 ISBN 978-3-319-04623-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-04624-2

ISSN 2198-4190 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-04624-2 (eBook)

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Preface

The book was motivated by an urgent need for designing and implementation of innovative control algorithms and systems for tracked vehicles. Nowadays the unmanned vehicles are becoming more and more common. Therefore there is a need for innovative mechanical constructions capable of adapting to various applications regardless the grou