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This book provides a simplified description of how to design an underwater swimming robot, inspired by the mechanism of the Labriform mode of fish. This style of swimming depends on the pectoral fins only as a main locomotor for movement. A unique model with fins having a concave shape allows the highest thrust force to be achieved during the power period and the lowest drag force during the recovery period, especially if the velocity values between the powering and recovery periods are manipulated.Besides the ability to swim quickly, the proposed model was also inspired by a method of maneuvering based on the principle of differential drive for two-wheel mobile robot, achieving the minimum turning radius by controlling the speed of the rowing fins.Also, by applying the technique of the diving model used by gliders, the robot achieves underwater gliding by changing the center of the body's mass. Thus, the robot obtains the ability to dive and float in a manner similar to the Sawtooth wave.All the mentioned tasks were conducted via laboratory experiments and proven to be both effective and efficient.

This book focuses on a class of uncertain systems that are called imperfect, and shows how much systems can regularly work if an appropriate control strategy is adopted.

Raccattai il diploma di conservatorio, la chitarra con la custodia rigida, il sacco da marinaio Napapijiri e me ne andai chiudendo la porta in un giorno qualsiasi, senza strappi, senza drammi, con buona pace di tutti ma col segreto rancore di non aver neanche detto 'ciao', come un figlio perso in guerra senza mai essere stato un eroe. Fabian vive una vita svagata suonando nei locali notturni di Perugia e Bologna, ma quando l'ambiente spietato della discografia cancella l'uscita del suo primo disco volta le spalle al mondo, rifugiandosi a Torre a Mare per cominciare un'altra vita. Tra le amicizie di una nuova, variopinta umanità, Fabian conosce Alberto e Cristiana, affascinanti proprietari del vecchio yacht Corinna, e con loro intraprende un avventuroso viaggio verso Istanbul che inciderà in maniera profondissima sulla sua esistenza incompiuta.

This book aims to present a pedagogical and self-consistent treatment of the canonical approach to Quantum Gravity, starting from its original formulation to the most recent developments in the field.We start with an innovative and enlightening introduction to the formalism and concepts on which General Relativity has been built, giving all the information necessary in the later analysis. A brief sketch of the Standard Cosmological Model describing the Universe evolution is also given alongside the analysis of the inflationary mechanism. After deepening the fundamental properties of constrained dynamic systems, the Lagrangian approach to the Einsteinian Theory is presented in some detail, underlining the parallelism with non-Abelian gauge theories. Then, the basic concepts of the canonical approach to Quantum Mechanics are provided, focusing on all those formulations which are relevant for the Canonical Quantum Gravity problem. The Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity and its constrained structure is then analyzed by comparing different formulations. The resulting quantum dynamics, described by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, is fully discussed in order to outline its merits and limits. Afterwards, the reformulation of Canonical Quantum Gravity in terms of the Ashtekar-Barbero-Immirzi variables is faced by a detailed discussion of the resulting Loop Quantum Gravity Theory. Finally, we provide a consistent picture of canonical Quantum Cosmology by facing the main features of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the homogeneous Bianchi models and then by a detailed treatment of Loop Quantum Cosmology, including very recent developments.

This is a book on path integrals which provides a quick and swift description of the topic. It contains original material that never before has appeared in a book. The new topics include the path integrals for the Wigner functions and for Classical Mechanics.

It is well known that FOS can be applied in control applications and systems modeling, and their effectiveness has been proven in many theoretical works and simulation routines. This book aims to propose implementations and applications of Fractional Order Systems (FOS).