ABSTRACT
The book deals with two main areas of emerging importance in the field of systems and control, namely, the quasi-linear parameter-varying (qLPV) models and the linear matrix inequality (LMI) design method. The qLPV models efficiently treat nonlinear plants as linear time-invariant (LTI) systems with varying parameters that are functions of the state variables. Such formulation is applicable to a wide range of problems, for example, in the areas of aerospace control and gain scheduling. The LMI, on the other hand, is a very efficient computation-based method for multiobjective control system design. The integration of the two has been the subject of many ongoing works in recent years. This book, however, deviates from past approaches by bringing forth a number of novel concepts and perspectives.
