“Naše more” 61(1-2)/2014. Supplement, pp. 9-12

Performance of manned and automated spacecraft and vehicles greatly relies on the control system operation quality. The account hereunder describes the history and evolution of control systems, principles of their development, and the latest concepts. Copyright © 2004 IFAC

Productivity Control loops are a vital part of the process industry and are especially important when it comes to quality, economy and safety. In fact, a significant portion of incorrectly tuned automatic control loops can actually decrease production performance rather than improve it. The availability and effectiveness of a control system is essential for operating the process safely and at m...

Cross–derivatives are mixed partial derivatives that are obtained by differentiating at most once in every coordinate direction. They are a computational tool in combinatorics and high– dimensional integration. Here we present two methods of computing exact values of all cross– derivatives at a given point both following the general philosophy of automatic differentiation. Implementation detail...

The research summarised here is working towards automatic control systems for cameras, in support of remote meetings. Progress is reported on several fronts: use of active contours to track heads, stereo sound analysis; applying particle filtering to handle both visual and aural clutter; and the use of exemplars for stabilisation of inter-frame matching.