ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book introduces the fundamentals of the quantitative robust control (QFT). It also introduces practical advanced control solutions for real-world projects, including unstable, time-delay, non-minimum phase, or distributed parameter systems, plants with large model uncertainty, with high-performance specifications, nonlinear components, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) characteristics, or asymmetric topologies. The book presents a large collection of successful real-world cases and projects, including commercial wind turbines, wastewater treatment plants, satellites with flexible appendages, spacecraft flying in formation, large radio telescopes, industrial manufacturing systems, etc. It also contains five detailed and real-world QFT control design case studies, including a variety of problems from single-input single-output (SISO) plants to MIMO systems, advanced topologies, and even nonlinear dynamic control solutions.
