Feedback Control, Nonlinear Systems, and Complexity

✍ Scribed by Bruce Allen Francis, Allen Robert Tannenbaum (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 283
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 202
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume is the proceedings of a conference held May 6 and 7, 1994 at McGill University in Montreal in honour of Professor George on the occasion of his 60th birthday. He has devoted most of his professional life to the subject of feedback control.
Invited speakers were internationally prominent researchers from the USA, Canada, UK and the Netherlands. Their papers cover various aspects of linear multivariable feedback control, nonlinear systems and the complexity of systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Biographical sketch of George Zames....Pages 1-10
On the structured singular value for operators on Hilbert space....Pages 11-23
Pulses, periods, and cohomological terms in functional expansions....Pages 24-35
An approach to the problems of complexity and hierarchy with an application to a detection problem....Pages 36-55
A unified framework for identification and control....Pages 56-66
Intelligent control: Some preliminary results....Pages 67-87
Metric uncertainty and nonlinear feedback stabilization....Pages 88-98
Identification in frequency domain....Pages 99-113
Performance analysis and control of stochastic discrete event systems....Pages 114-130
Statistical validation for uncertainty models....Pages 131-149
An experimental comparison of $$\mathcal{H}2$$ and $$\mathcal{H}\infty$$ designs for an interferometer testbed....Pages 150-172
Logic-based switching and control....Pages 173-195
The unfalsified control concept: A direct path from experiment to controller....Pages 196-214
State-space and I/O stability for nonlinear systems....Pages 215-235
On optimal decentralized control....Pages 236-260
Control as interconnection....Pages 261-275

✦ Subjects

Control Engineering; Systems Theory, Control; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization