Output Regulation of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

Idisori, Alberto; Delli Priscoli, Francesco; Byrnes, Christopher I.

ISBN 10: 0817639977 / ISBN 13: 9780817639976

Published by Birkhauser Boston Inc, 1997

About this Item

A concise survey and introduction to structured and unstructured robust output regulation, this text seeks to place robust output regulation in the context of nonlinear control systems. Series: Systems & Control: Foundations and Applications. Num Pages: 131 pages, biography. BIC Classification: TGPQ; TJFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 830. . 1997. Hardback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Output Regulation of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems
• Publisher: Birkhauser Boston Inc
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0817639977
• ISBN 13: 9780817639976
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The problem of controlling the output of a system so as to achieve asymptotic tracking of prescribed trajectories and/or asymptotic re­ jection of undesired disturbances is a central problem in control the­ ory. A classical setup in which the problem was posed and success­ fully addressed - in the context of linear, time-invariant and finite dimensional systems - is the one in which the exogenous inputs, namely commands and disturbances, may range over the set of all possible trajectories ofa given autonomous linear system, commonly known as the exogeneous system or, more the exosystem. The case when the exogeneous system is a harmonic oscillator is, of course, classical. Even in this special case, the difference between state and error measurement feedback in the problem ofoutput reg­ ulation is profound. To know the initial condition of the exosystem is to know the amplitude and phase of the corresponding sinusoid. On the other hand, to solve the output regulation problem in this case with only error measurement feedback is to track, or attenu­ ate, a sinusoid ofknown frequency but with unknown amplitude and phase. This is in sharp contrast with alternative approaches, such as exact output tracking, where in lieu of the assumption that a signal is within a class of signals generated by an exogenous system, one instead assumes complete knowledge of the past, present and future time history of the trajectory to be tracked.

Review

This book is a very polished, concise state-of-the-art survey and introduction to structured and unstructured robust output regulation. It is a large step toward placing robust output regulation in the context of nonlinear control systems, a topic that has been crucial in recent years to extending much that is known about linear systems to nonlinear systems. -- Book Description