Feedback control. Linear, nonlinear and robust techniques and design with industrial applications (Q2517309)

This is the original book on feedback control of linear and nonlinear systems with some interesting applications. It consists of 11 chapters. Chapter 1 gives a review of the traditional controllers used in industry and a comprehensive treatment of the correlation between the relative pole and zero location of the transfer function of a linear time-invariant (LTI) system. Chapter 2 develops the background theory of the plants modeling. The theory of \(z\)-transform, the canonical forms of linear systems and the controllability and observability of the linear systems are discussed in Chapter 3. The traditional controllers and the model based design of control systems are presented in Chapter 4. The model-based control system design approach based on the pole assignment by means of linear state feedbacks and of the polynomial control are extended in Chapter 5. The general structure, timing, algorithms and flow charts of the discrete controllers are presented in Chapter 6. The discrete polynomial control of plants containing pure time delays and the Smith predictor are also presented. The model based control of the nonlinear and linear plants is addressed in Chapter 7. The state estimation problem is discussed in Chapter 8. The basic full state observer for LTI systems and the Kalman filter algorithms for discrete-time and continuous-time linear systems are developed. In Chapter 9 the switched, saturating control techniques and the optimal control using the Pontryagin's maximum principle are developed. The sliding mode control of nonlinear systems is developed in Chapter 10. Three methods of control chatter avoidance are presented. The last chapter is devoted to the motion control. The optimal control strategy is formulated using the Pontryagin's method. This book can be recommended to undergraduate and graduate students.