Multivariable Feedback Control: Analysis and Design - Softcover

Skogestad, Sigurd; Postlethwaite, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471943304 ISBN 13: 9780471943303

Publisher: Wiley, 1996

Synopsis

Provides an ideal introduction to the analysis and design of robust multivariable control. Model uncertainty, multivariable systems, robustness, interactions between design and control, decentralized control, control structures, model reduction, and an overview of techniques for controller design are among the topics discussed. Includes numerous worked examples.

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From the Back Cover

Multivariable Feedback Control Analysis and Design Sigurd Skogestad Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway Ian Postlethwaite University of Leicester, UK This is a book on practical feedback control and not on system theory in general. Feedback is used in control systems to change the dynamics of the system and to reduce the sensitivity of the system to both signal and model uncertainty. The book presents a rigorous, yet easily readable, introduction to the analysis and design of robust multivariable control systems. It provides the reader with insights into the opportunities and limitations of feedback control. Its objective is to enable the engineer to design real control systems. Important topics are: extensions of classical frequency-domain methods to multivariable systems, analysis of directions using the singular value decomposition, performance limitations and input-output controllability analysis, model uncertainty and robustness including the structured singular value, control structure design, and methods for controller synthesis and model reduction. Numerous worked examples, exercises and case studies, which make frequent use of MATLAB, are included. MATLAB files for examples and figures, solutions to selected exercises, extra problems and linear state-space models for the case studies are available on the Internet.

About the Author

Professor Sigurd Skogestad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Author of more than 100 journal publications and 150 conference publications. He was awarded "Innstilling to the King" for his Siv.Ing. degree in 1979, a Fullbright fellowship in 1983, received the Ted Peterson Award from AIChE in 1989, the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from IEEE in 1990, and the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award from the American Automatic Control Council in 1992.

Professor Ian Postlethwaite, University of Leicester, UK
Head of Engineering Department, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and a Fellow of the Institute of Measurement and Control. In 1991 he received the IEE FC Williams Premium, in 2001 the Sir Harold Hartley Medal of the InstMC and in 2002 the Best Paper Prize for an article published in the IFAC Journal of Control Engineering Practice over the period 1999-2002.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0471943304
• ISBN 13: 9780471943303
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 572