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The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies , new challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports, feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial control for wider and rapid dissemination. Almost all physical systems are nonlinear and the success of linear control techniques depends on the extent of the nonlinear system behaviour and the careful attention given to switching linear controllers through the range of nonlinear system operations. In many industrial and process-control applications, good engineering practice, linear control systems and classical PID control can give satisfactory performance because the process nonlinearity is mild and the control system performance specification is not particularly demanding; however, there are other industrial system applications where the requirement for high-performance control can only be achieved if nonlinear control design techniques are used. Thus, in some industrial and technological domains there is a strong justification for more applications of nonlinear methods. One prevailing difficulty with nonlinear control methods is that they are not so easily understood nor are they easy to reduce to formulaic algorithms for routine application.
List of contents
Preliminaries and Introduction.- Policy Iterations and Nonlinear H 2 Constrained State Feedback Control.- Nearly H 2 Optimal Neural Network Control for Constrained-Input Systems.- Policy Iterations and Nonlinear H ? Constrained State Feedback Control.- Nearly H ? Optimal Neural Network Control for Constrained-Input Systems.- Taylor Series Approach to Solving HJI Equation.- An Algorithm to Solve Discrete HJI Equations Arising from Discrete Nonlinear H ? Control Problems.- H ? Static Output Feedback.
About the author
Frank L. Lewis is a professor at the Automation and Robotics Institute of the University of Texas at Arlington.
Summary
The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies , new challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports, feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial control for wider and rapid dissemination. Almost all physical systems are nonlinear and the success of linear control techniques depends on the extent of the nonlinear system behaviour and the careful attention given to switching linear controllers through the range of nonlinear system operations. In many industrial and process-control applications, good engineering practice, linear control systems and classical PID control can give satisfactory performance because the process nonlinearity is mild and the control system performance specification is not particularly demanding; however, there are other industrial system applications where the requirement for high-performance control can only be achieved if nonlinear control design techniques are used. Thus, in some industrial and technological domains there is a strong justification for more applications of nonlinear methods. One prevailing difficulty with nonlinear control methods is that they are not so easily understood nor are they easy to reduce to formulaic algorithms for routine application.
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From the reviews:
"This book examines some fundamental modern control problems of nonlinear systems … . The book is very well written. … The results included in the book, along with an extensive bibliography will prove to be an important resource for researchers in this area as well as researchers interested in entering this area. … a good text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course. Short courses or training courses for control engineers to gain knowledge in nonlinear control systems would be another avenue for this book." (Sanqing Hu and Derong Liu, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53 (1), 2008)
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From the reviews:
"This book examines some fundamental modern control problems of nonlinear systems ... . The book is very well written. ... The results included in the book, along with an extensive bibliography will prove to be an important resource for researchers in this area as well as researchers interested in entering this area. ... a good text for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course. Short courses or training courses for control engineers to gain knowledge in nonlinear control systems would be another avenue for this book." (Sanqing Hu and Derong Liu, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 53 (1), 2008)
