Computer controlled systems. Analysis and design with process-orientated models (Q1572596)

Computer controlled systems can be looked from the point of view of the computer by looking at what happens at the sampling instants and one forgets the intersample behaviour (the computer oriented approach) or from the point of view of the continuous-time process (the process oriented approach). This volume focuses on the second point of view. The processes are linear finite-dimensional and modelled with time-varying periodic parameters. The authors consider a suitably constructed frequency domain and the material has its origins in the work of Y. Tsypkin. Part one presents mathematical tools which will be used later. Chapter one introduces the bilateral Laplace transform and presents some properties. Chapter two gives discrete versions. Chapter three is about the displayed pulse frequency response and its representation in Fourier series. Chapter four deals with discrete Laplace transforms for functions of a continuous argument. Part two looks at linear systems as operators. The time-invariant case is examined first in chapter five as a way to introduce the concepts. Then, the authors consider periodic operators, their interconnections, the parametric frequency response, as a special case periodic integral operators and further linear periodic pulse operators as well as some interconnections. Chapter seven provides expressions for the response of the periodic operators of the previous chapter. Chapter eight considers the case when the input is a stochastic quantity and expressions for output correlation matrices are given. In part three, the frame of part two is applied to sampled-data systems. The parametric transfer function allows to express the output. Some generalizations are given including a cascade connection of a sampling unit with a linear system. Issues of pole-zero cancellation are pointed out and conditions so that it does not occur are given. Chapter ten examines several cascade connections, the principal one being the one which models the analog to digital to analog conversion. Open-loop transfer functions for models of computers are presented. Adding a prefilter is considered, too. Pole-zero cancellations are treated. Chapter eleven is a pendant to the previous one but now the closed-loop situation is investigated. The poles of the transfer functions are analyzed as well as deadbeat systems. Chapter twelve considers the case when there are many sampling units (synchronous, multirate) and the open loop and feedback configurations are examined. Part four deals with sampled-data systems under deterministic or stochastic disturbances a situation which is difficult to handle when one uses the computer oriented approach. The goal now is to describe the transient and the steady-state processes. Chapter thirteen treats the deterministic case in open-loop. Chapter fourteen at the feedback case; deadbeat processes, stabilization are studied as well as hybrid systems, multirate systems\dots Chapter fifteen considers the random disturbance case in open-loop and in closed-loop. In the last part, the authors deal with optimization \((L-Q,H_2, H_\infty)\) in open-loop (chapter sixteen) and closed-loop (chapter seventeen). The last chapter deals with polynomial methods in this context and has been written by K. Polyakov. Appendix A gives analytic information on rational periodic functions whereas Appendix B provides information on a matlab software tool available on the Web. A bibliography (around ten percent of the references are from the first author) and an index end the book. This volume will be a useful source on sampled-data systems for engineers, students and control scientists.