Control Systems with Saturating Inputs: Analysis Tools and Advanced Design

✍ Scribed by Maria Letizia Corradini, Andrea Cristofaro, Fabio Giannoni, Giuseppe Orlando (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 424
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Saturation nonlinearities are ubiquitous in engineering systems: every physical actuator or sensor is subject to saturation owing to its maximum and minimum limits. Input saturation is an operating condition that is well known to the control community for its “side effects”, which cause conventional controllers to lose their closed-loop performance as well as control authority in stabilization. Therefore, the practical application of control theory cannot avoid taking into account saturation nonlinearities in actuators, explicitly dealing with constraints in control design.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-6
Estimation of the Null Controllable Region: Continuous-Time Plants....Pages 7-32
Estimation of the Null Controllable Region: Discrete-Time Plants....Pages 33-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
Control Design Issues: Continuous-Time Plants....Pages 55-94
Control Design Issues: Discrete-Time Plants....Pages 95-124
Back Matter....Pages 0--1

✦ Subjects

Control; Engineering Design; Industrial and Production Engineering