Control Systems with Saturating Inputs - Analysis Tools and Advanced Design

Saturation nonlinearities are ubiquitous in engineering systems: every physical actuator or sensor is subject to saturation owing to its maximum and minimum limits. Input saturation is an operating condition that is well known to the control community for its "side effects", which cause conventional controllers to lose their closed-loop performance as well as control authority in stabilization. Therefore, the practical application of control theory cannot avoid taking into account saturation nonlinearities in actuators, explicitly dealing with constraints in control design.

List of contents

Introduction.- Estimation of the null controllable region: Continuous-time plants.- Estimation of the null controllable region: Discrete-time plants.- Control Design Issues: Continuous-time plants.- Control Design Issues: Discrete-time plants.

Summary

Saturation nonlinearities are ubiquitous in engineering systems: every physical actuator or sensor is subject to saturation owing to its maximum and minimum limits. Input saturation is an operating condition that is well known to the control community for its “side effects”, which cause conventional controllers to lose their closed-loop performance as well as control authority in stabilization. Therefore, the practical application of control theory cannot avoid taking into account saturation nonlinearities in actuators, explicitly dealing with constraints in control design.

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• Authors: Maria Letizi Corradini, Maria Letizia Corradini, Andre Cristofaro, Andrea Cristofaro, Gianno, Fabio Giannoni, Giuseppe Orlando
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9781447125051
• ISBN: 978-1-4471-2505-1
• No. of pages: 140
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 10 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 266 g
• Illustrations: XII, 140 p. 33 illus., 3 illus. in color.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences; Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
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