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- Avoids complicated mathematical developments in favour of easily-understood, step-by-step techniques
- Allows the reader to treat a broad range of nonlinear control systems without resort to linearization techniques
- Use of case studies and practical problems exemplifies the real-world relevance of the methods discussed
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
A systematic computer-aided approach provides a versatile setting for the control engineer to overcome the complications of controller design for highly nonlinear systems. Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design provides such an approach based on the use of describing functions. The text deals with a large class of nonlinear systems without restrictions on the system order, the number of inputs and/or outputs or the number, type or arrangement of nonlinear terms. The strongly software-oriented methods detailed facilitate fulfillment of tight performance requirements and help the designer to think in purely nonlinear terms, avoiding the expedient of linearization which can impose substantial and unrealistic model limitations and drive up the cost of the final product.
Design procedures are presented in a step-by-step algorithmic format each step being a functional unit with outputs that drive the other steps. This procedure may be easily implemented on a digital computer with example problems from mechatronic and aerospace design being used to demonstrate the techniques discussed. The author’s commercial MATLAB®-based environment, available separately from insert URL here, can be used to create simulations showing the results of using the computer-aided control system design ideas characterized in the text.
Academic researchers and graduate students studying nonlinear control systems and control engineers dealing with nonlinear plant, particularly mechatronic or aerospace systems will find Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design to be of great practical assistance adding to their toolbox of techniques for dealing with system nonlinearities. A basic knowledge of calculus, nonlinear analysis and software engineering will enable the reader to get the best from this book.
Authors and Affiliations
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Malaysia Campus, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, Semenyih, Malaysia
Amir Nassirharand
About the author
A systematic computer-aided approach provides a versatile setting for the control engineer to overcome the complications of controller design for highly nonlinear systems. Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design provides such an approach based on the use of describing functions. The text deals with a large class of nonlinear systems without restrictions on the system order, the number of inputs and/or outputs or the number, type or arrangement of nonlinear terms. The strongly software-oriented methods detailed facilitate fulfillment of tight performance requirements and help the designer to think in purely nonlinear terms, avoiding the expedient of linearization which can impose substantial and unrealistic model limitations and drive up the cost of the final product.
Design procedures are presented in a step-by-step algorithmic format each step being a functional unit with outputs that drive the other steps. This procedure may be easily implemented on a digital computer with example problems from mechatronic and aerospace design being used to demonstrate the techniques discussed. The author’s commercial MATLAB®-based environment, available separately from /www.springer.com/978-1-4471-2148-0, can be used to create simulations showing the results of using the computer-aided control system design ideas characterized in the text.
Academic researchers and graduate students studying nonlinear control systems and control engineers dealing with nonlinear plant, particularly mechatronic or aerospace systems will find Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design to be of great practical assistance adding to their toolbox of techniques for dealing with system nonlinearities. A basic knowledge of calculus, nonlinear analysis and software engineering will enable the reader to get the best from this book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computer-aided Nonlinear Control System Design
Book Subtitle: Using Describing Function Models
Authors: Amir Nassirharand
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2149-7
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2148-0Published: 03 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5986-5Published: 23 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-2149-7Published: 02 January 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 182
Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Mechatronics, Automotive Engineering, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics