Advances in the Control of Nonlinear Systems

✍ Scribed by Alfonso Banos, Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue, Francisco J. Montoya

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 325
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is based on the course notes of the 2nd NCN Pedagogical School, the second in the series of Pedagogical Schools in the frame work of the European TMR project, "Breakthrough in the control of nonlinear systems (Nonlinear Control Network)". The school consists of four courses that have been chosen to give a broad range of techniques for the analysis and synthesis of nonlinear control systems, and have been developed by leading experts in the field. The topics covered are: Differential Algebraic Methods in Nonlinear Systems; Nonlinear QFT; Hybrid Systems; Physics in Control.The book has a pedagogical character, and is specially directed to postgraduates in most areas of engineering and applied sciences like mathematics and physics. It will also be of interest to researchers and practitioners needing a solid introduction to the above topics.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Flat Systems, Equivalence and Feedback......Page 10
Flat Systems: open problems, infinite dimensional extension, symmetries and catalog......Page 38
Fundamentals of Nonlinear Quantitative Feedback Theory......Page 64
Introduction to Discrete Event Systems......Page 135
Petri Nets Models of Timed Discrete Event Plants......Page 161
Modelling and Analysis of Hybrid Dynamical Systems......Page 193
On Modelling and Control of Mass Balance Systems......Page 224
Network Modelling of Physical Systems: a Geometric Approach......Page 247
Energy Shaping Control Revisited......Page 271
Geometric Modeling of mechanical Systems for Interactive Control......Page 302