Control systems with input and output constraints (Q1414849)

This book familiarizes the reader with PID control design methodologies when the inputs and/or outputs can saturate. The authors present their topics in an inductive manner from simple cases to more complicated ones, but they do not loose themselves in this way. The text is well structured. The main technique is the antiwindup feedback method. A first part deals with standard situations in the SISO case (PI control with input constraints, PI control with output constraints, PI control with input and output constraints, the PID case, the situation when disturbances are present, added actuator dynamics). A second part presents more complicated cases (more than one dominant pole, state feedback control, the application of ``windup'' to many internal variables and not just one as before, nonlinear stability, MIMO cases). The focus is on transient examination and stability (via frequency response methods in the first part and via the Popov and circle criteria and the describing function method in the second one). The authors compare different methods, and many simulations and plots can be found throughout the text. There is a list of references at the end where some theoretical works on this topic are developed (but the authors forgot to mention publications of \textit{Z. Lin}, like his book [Low gain feedback (1998; Zbl 0927.93001)]). The index is lamentable (less than a page, with incomplete information (for instance the key concepts of ``antiwindup'', ``override control'', ``bumpless transfer'' are absent from the list) and too many references per item in general). The book is of interest to engineers and students in control system design.