Nonlinear and Adaptive Control of Complex Systems

✍ Scribed by Alexander L. Fradkov, Iliya V. Miroshnik, Vladimir O. Nikiforov (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 520
• Series: Mathematics and Its Applications 491
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents a theoretical framework and control methodology for a class of complex dynamical systems characterised by high state space dimension, multiple inputs and outputs, significant nonlinearity, parametric uncertainty, and unmodeled dynamics. A unique feature of the authors' approach is the combination of rigorous concepts and methods of nonlinear control (invariant and attracting submanifolds, Lyapunov functions, exact linearisation, passification) with approximate decomposition results based on singular perturbations and decentralisation. Some results published previously in the Russian literature and not well known in the West are brought to light. Basic concepts of modern nonlinear control and motivating examples are given.
Audience: This book will be useful for researchers, engineers, university lecturers and postgraduate students specialising in the fields of applied mathematics and engineering, such as automatic control, robotics, and control of vibrations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Faces of Complexity....Pages 1-23
Nonlinear Systems: Analysis and Design Tools....Pages 25-89
Speed-Gradient Method and Partial Stabilization....Pages 91-125
Nonlinear Control of Multivariable Systems....Pages 127-181
Nonlinear Control of MIMO Systems....Pages 183-264
Adaptive and Robust Control Design....Pages 265-389
Decomposition of Adaptive Systems....Pages 391-427
Control of Mechanical Systems....Pages 429-467
Physics and Control....Pages 469-484
Back Matter....Pages 485-510

✦ Subjects

Systems Theory, Control; Electrical Engineering; Mechanical Engineering; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control