This book represents the work of top scientists in the field of intelligent control and its applications, prognostics, diagnostics, condition based maintenance and unmanned systems. The work presents an approach to solving engineering problems related to manufacturing, automation, and especially unmanned systems and describes recent advances in the disciplines mentioned above.

The main goal of the book is to demonstrate how concepts and ideas from diverse disciplines are merged within a common framework applied to the solution of complex problems.

Inhalt
Diagnostics, Prognostics, Condition-Based Maintenance.- Selected Prognostic Methods with Application to an Integrated Health Management System.- Advances in Uncertainty Representation and Management for Particle Filtering Applied to Prognostics.- A Novel Blind Deconvolution De-Noising Scheme in Failure Prognosis.- Particle Filter Based Anomaly Detection for Aircraft Actuator Systems.- Unmanned Aerial Systems.- Design of a Hardware and Software Architecture for Unmanned Vehicles: A Modular Approach.- Designing a Real-time Vision System for Small Unmanned Rotorcraft: A Minimal and Cost-Effective Approach.- Coordination of Helicopter UAVs for Aerial Forest-Fire Surveillance.- Genetic Fuzzy Rule-Based Classifiers for Land Cover Classification from Multispectral Images.- Bioengineering/Neurotechnology.- Epileptic Seizures May Begin Hours in Advance of Clinical Onset: A Report of Five Patients*.- Intelligent Control Strategies for Neurostimulation.- Intelligent Control Systems.- Software Technology for Implementing Reusable, Distributed Control Systems.- UGV Localization Based on Fuzzy Logic and Extended Kalman Filtering.- Adaptive Estimation of Fuzzy Cognitive Networks and Applications.- An Improved Method in Receding Horizon Control with Updating of Terminal Cost Function.- Identifier-Based Discovery in Large-Scale Networks An Economic Perspective.