Control Systems: Classical, Modern, and AI-Based Approaches

Control Systems: Classical, Modern, and AI-Based Approaches provides a broad and comprehensive study of the principles, mathematics, and applications for those studying basic control in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, and other engineering disciplines. The text builds a strong mathematical foundation of control theory of linear, nonlinear, optimal, model predictive, robust, digital, and adaptive control systems, and it addresses applications in several emerging areas, such as aircraft, electro-mechanical, and some nonengineering systems: DC motor control, steel beam thickness control, drum boiler, motional control system, chemical reactor, head-disk assembly, pitch control of an aircraft, yaw-damper control, helicopter control, and tidal power control. Decentralized control, game-theoretic control, and control of hybrid systems are discussed. Also, control systems based on artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms, termed as AI-based systems are studied and analyzed with applications such as auto-landing aircraft, industrial process control, active suspension system, fuzzy gain scheduling, PID control, and adaptive neuro control. Numerical coverage with MATLAB® is integrated, and numerous examples and exercises are included for each chapter. Associated MATLAB® code will be made available.

Jitendra R. Raol, PhD, is Emeritus Professor at the M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology in Bangalore, India. He previously served at the National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) as Scientist-G and Head of the Flight Mechanics and Control Division (FMCD). He is a fellow of the IEE (UK), a senior member of the IEEE (US), a life-fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India, and a life member of the System Society of India. He has guided nearly a dozen doctoral research scholars and is a reviewer of many international journals.

Ramakalyan Ayyagari, PhD, is with the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering at the National Institute of Technology―a deemed University, Tiruchirappalli, India. He earned a master’s at Andhra University, India, and a PhD at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Dr. Ayyagari’s areas of specialty include cyber physical systems, network flow control, modeling and control of big data systems, and path planning.