Multivariable Computer-controlled Systems

Although the transfer function approach is widely used in classical control theory, computer-controlled continuous-time processes are a very important subset of periodic sampled-data systems which are not treatable using ordinary transfer functions.

The authors show how parametric transfer functions, which incorporate time-dependence, can be used to give a complete exposition of analysis and design methods for multi-input, multi-output (MIMO) sampled-data systems.

Multivariable Computer-controlled Systems is divided into three parts:

- Preliminary algebraic material necessary in later chapters.

- Control problems, important in their own right but also having a substantial bearing on what follows.

- Frequency methods for the investigation of MIMO sampled-data systems (parametric discrete-time models; stability; stochastic methods; H₂ optimization and L₂ design).

Appendices covering basic mathematical formulae and two MATLAB^® toolboxes round out this self-contained guide.

E.N. Rosenwasser holds the chair for automated ship complexes at the State University of Ocean Technology of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Prof. Rosenwasser is one of the leading Russian control scientists. His research results are published in more than 200 publications including 15 monographs.

Bernhard P. Lampe is Professor for automatic control at the Institute of Automation, Department Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of Rostock, Germany. Prof. Lampe is initiator and leader of numerous research projects in theory and application of advanced control methods, as well as author and co-author of more than 250 publications including 5 monographs.

In cooperation both authors wrote the Communications and Control Engineering monograph Computer Controlled Systems, (1-85233-307-3, 2000).