Table of Contents

Introduction.- Distributed Parameter Systems: Controllability, Observability and Identification.- Optimal Heterogeneous Mobile Sensing for Parameter Estimation of Distributed Parameter Systems.- Optimal Mobile Remote Sensing Policies.- On-line Optimal Mobile Sensing Policies: Finite-horizon Control Framework.- Optimal Mobile Actuation/Sensing Policies for Parameter Estimation off Distributed Parameter Systems.- Optimal Mobile Sensing with Fractional Sensor Dynamics.- Optimal Mobile Remote Sensing Policy for Downscaling and Assimiliation Problems.- Conclusions and Future Work.- Appendices: Notation; RIOTS Tutorial; Implentations.

About the Author

Dr. YangQuan Chen has authored over 200 academic papers plus numerous technical reports. He co-authored two textbooks:"System Simulation Techniques with MATLAB®/Simulink" (with Dingyu Xue. Tsinghua University Press, April’02, ISBN 7-302-05341-3/TP3137, in Chinese) and "Solving Advanced Applied Mathematical Problems Using Matlab" (with Dingyu Xue. Tsinghua University Press. August’04. 419 pages in Chinese, ISBN 7-302-09311-3/O.392); and five research monographs: "Plastic Belt for Projectiles" (with Y. Shi. Shaanxi Science and Technology Press, Jan. 1995, ISBN 7-5369-2277-9/TJ.1, in Chinese), "Iterative Learning Control" (with C. Wen. LNCIS, Springer-Verlag, Nov. 1999, ISBN: 1-85233-190-9), “Iterative Learning Control” (with Hyo-Sung Ahn and Kevin L. Moore. Springer, July’07, ISBN: 978-1-84628-846-3), “Optimal Observation for Cyber-physical Systems”(with Zhen Song, Chellury Sastry and Nazif Tas. Springer, July’09, ISBN: 978-1-84882-655-7), and “Fractional-order Systems and Controls” (with Concepción A. Monje, Blas M. Vinagre, Dingyu Xue and Vicente Feliu, ISBN:978-1-84996-334-3). His current research interests include autonomous navigation and intelligent control of a team of unmanned ground vehicles, machine vision for control and automation, distributed control systems (MAS-net: mobile actuator-sensor networks), fractional-order control, interval computation, and iterative/repetitive/adaptive learning control. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE CSSCEB. He was also an Associate Editor of ISA Review Board for AACC's American Control Conference (ACC’05). He has been the Co-Organizer and Instructor of the Tutorial Workshops on “Fractional-order Calculus in Control and Robotics” at IEEE 2002 Conference on Decision and Control (CDC’02), and “Applied Fractional Calculus in Controls and Signal Processing” at CDC’10 and a founding member of the ASME subcommittee on “Fractional Dynamics”.