Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design: Using Describing Function Models

✍ Scribed by Amir Nassirharand (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 195
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A systematic computer-aided approach provides a versatile setting for the control engineer to overcome the complications of controller design for highly nonlinear systems. Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design provides such an approach based on the use of describing functions. The text deals with a large class of nonlinear systems without restrictions on the system order, the number of inputs and/or outputs or the number, type or arrangement of nonlinear terms. The strongly software-oriented methods detailed facilitate fulfillment of tight performance requirements and help the designer to think in purely nonlinear terms, avoiding the expedient of linearization which can impose substantial and unrealistic model limitations and drive up the cost of the final product.

Design procedures are presented in a step-by-step algorithmic format each step being a functional unit with outputs that drive the other steps. This procedure may be easily implemented on a digital computer with example problems from mechatronic and aerospace design being used to demonstrate the techniques discussed. The author’s commercial MATLAB®-based environment, available separately from insert URL here, can be used to create simulations showing the results of using the computer-aided control system design ideas characterized in the text.

Academic researchers and graduate students studying nonlinear control systems and control engineers dealing with nonlinear plant, particularly mechatronic or aerospace systems will find Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design to be of great practical assistance adding to their toolbox of techniques for dealing with system nonlinearities. A basic knowledge of calculus, nonlinear analysis and software engineering will enable the reader to get the best from this book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Frequency Domain Modeling....Pages 5-21
Single-Range Controller Design....Pages 23-41
Dual-Range Controller Design....Pages 43-55
Multirange Nonlinear Controller Design....Pages 57-85
Experimental Study: Unstable SISO Systems....Pages 87-96
Back Matter....Pages 97-180

✦ Subjects

Control; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Mechatronics; Automotive Engineering; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics