Background
Stavrakakis, George was born on December 10, 1956 in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece. Son of Spiros and Maria Stavrakakis.
(Tbis book is basicaUy concemed with approaches for improv...)
Tbis book is basicaUy concemed with approaches for improving safety in man-made systems. We caU these approaches, coUectively, fault monitoring, since they are concemed primarily with detecting faults occurring in the components of such systems, being sensors, actuators, controUed plants or entire strucutures. The common feature of these approaches is the intention to detect an abrupt change in some characteristic property of the considered object, by monitoring the behavior of the system. This change may be a slow-evolving effect or a complete breakdoWD. In tbis sense, fault monitoring touches upon, and occasionaUy overIaps with, other areas of control engineering such as adaptive control, robust controller design, reIiabiIity and safety engineering, ergonomics and man-macbine interfacing, etc. In fact, a system safety problem, could be attacked from any of the above angles of view. In tbis book, we don't touch upon these areas, unless there is a strong relationship between the fauIt monitoring approaches discussed and the aforementioned fields. When we set out to write tbis book, our aim was to incIude as much material as possible in a most rigorous, unified and concise format. Tbis would incIude state-of-the-art method as weil as more cIassical techniques, stilI in use today. AB we proceeded in gathering material, however, it soon became apparent that these were contradicting design criteria and a trade-off had to be made. We believe that the completeness vs.
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Stavrakakis, George was born on December 10, 1956 in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece. Son of Spiros and Maria Stavrakakis.
Electrical engineering diploma, National Technology University Athens, 1980. Diploma d'Etudes approfondies, Institute National Sciences Appliq., Toulouse, France, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, 1984.
Researcher Center National de Recherche Science, Toulouse, France, 1980-1984. Assistant professor Technology University Crete, Chania, Greece, 1986-1990, associate professor, 1990-1995, professor, since 1995. Consultant ARMINES/Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, since 1987.
Visiting scientist Joint Research Center-Ispra of European Community, Varese, Italy, 1988-1989. Advisor General Secretary of Research, Athens, since 1993. Vice president Center Renewable Energy Sources, 2000-2002.
(Tbis book is basicaUy concemed with approaches for improv...)
Lieutenant Greek Airforce, 1984-1985. Member Zentralblatt für Mathematic, New York Academy of Sciences, Technology Chamber of Greece.
Married Ethra Mariá, December 7, 1991.