Synopsis
The first edition of Quantitative Feedback Theory gained enormous popularity by successfully bridging the gap between theory and real-world engineering practice. Avoiding mathematical theorems, lemmas, proofs, and correlaries, it boiled down to the essential elements of quantitative feedback theory (QFT) necessary to readily analyze, develop, and implement robust control systems. Thoroughly updated and expanded, Quantitative Feedback Theory: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition continues to provide a platform for intelligent decision making and design based on knowledge of the characteristics and operating scenario of the plant.
Beginning with the fundamentals, the authors build a background in analog and discrete-time multiple-input-single-output (MISO) and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) feedback control systems along with the fundamentals of the QFT technique. The remainder of the book links these concepts to practical applications. Among the many enhancements to this edition are a new section on large wind turbine control system, four new chapters, and five new appendices. The new chapters cover non-diagonal compensator design for MIMO systems, QFT design involving Smith predictors for time delay systems with uncertainty, weighting matrices and control authority, and QFT design techniques applied to real-world industrial systems.
Quantitative Feedback Theory: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition includes new and revised examples and end-of-chapter problems. The theory presented in the book can be easily applied using the QFT Control Toolbox (or QFTCT) for Matlab developed by Prof. Garcia-Sanz (See also the website codypower.com).
About the Author
Prof. Mario Garcia-Sanz is one of the pioneers in the QFT robust control arena. Over the last 30 years, he has developed new QFT control theory and has designed many commercial control solutions for industry and space agencies. With over 20 industrial patents and 200 research papers, he has been the Principal Investigator of over 50 funded research projects for industry, and has worked as an international expert on wind turbine design and control in patent litigation at the British Court. As a Full Professor at the Public University of Navarra and Senior Advisor for European wind energy companies he played a central role in the design and field experimentation of multi-megawatt wind turbines for industry, including the advice of many PhD students and engineers in the field. Dr. Garcia-Sanz is currently a Professor and Founding Director of the Control and Energy Systems Center, and the inaugural Maltz Endowed Chair in Energy Innovation at Case Western Reserve University (cesc.case.edu). He also has been NATO/RTO Lecture Series Director, Visiting Professor at UMIST (UK); at Oxford University (UK); at NASA-JPL (California); and at the European Space Agency ESA-ESTEC (The Netherlands). He founded CoDyPower LLC, a consulting firmspecialized on control systems, energy innovation and optimum planning of electrical distribution networks (codypower.com). Professor Garcia-Sanz's CRC-Press three books "Quantitative Feedback Theory: Theory and Applications" (2006),"Wind Energy Systems: Control Engineering Design" (2012), and "Robust Control Engineering: Practical QFT Solutions" (2017) are among the best-selling books in QFT and Wind turbine control. His QFT Control Toolbox for Matlab is considered as the top tool for designing QFT control systems. Dr. Garcia-Sanz is Subject Editor of the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control,and received the IEE Heaviside Prize (UK), the BBVA research award (Spain) and the CWRU Diekhoff Teaching Award (USA).
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