ABSTRACT

This book thoroughly covers the fundamentals of the QFT robust control, as well as practical control solutions, for unstable, time-delay, non-minimum phase or distributed parameter systems, plants with large model uncertainty, high-performance specifications, nonlinear components, multi-input multi-output characteristics or asymmetric topologies. The reader will discover practical applications through a collection of fifty successful, real world case studies and projects, in which the author has been involved during the last twenty-five years, including commercial wind turbines, wastewater treatment plants, power systems, satellites with flexible appendages, spacecraft, large radio telescopes, and industrial manufacturing systems. Furthermore, the book presents problems and projects with the popular QFT Control Toolbox (QFTCT) for MATLAB, which was developed by the author.

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|62 pages

QFT Robust Control

chapter 3|20 pages

Unstable Systems and Control Solutions

chapter 4|20 pages

Time-Delay and Non-Minimum Phase Systems

chapter 5|16 pages

Distributed Parameter Systems

chapter 7|34 pages

Nonlinear Dynamic Control

chapter 9|18 pages

Control Topologies

chapter 10|22 pages

Controller Implementation

chapter |16 pages

Case Study 1: Satellite Control

chapter |26 pages

Case Study 2: Wind Turbine Control

chapter |30 pages

Case Study 4: Radio-Telescope Control