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Birkhauser Control Engineering Series.
xvi, 392 pages / ISBN 1-8176-4219-6
Every physical actuator is subject to saturation. When
the actuator saturates, the performance of the control system
designed without considering actuator saturation will
seriously deteriorate. In the extreme case, even the stability
will be lost. For this reason, there has been a surge of
interest in increasing the practical applicability of control
theory by incorporating the effect of saturation into the
design of a control system. This book examines the problem of
actuator saturation in depth. Features and topics include:
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The results apply to general open loop systems, including
exponentially unstable ones. Thus, they are widely
applicable to practical systems.
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The problem is treated in a systematic manner, from controllability
to stabilizability, to transience performance, to disturbance
rejection and to output regulation.
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An analytic description of the null controllable region is first
obtained. Various feedback laws are designed that work on the
entire or an arbitrarily large portion of the null controllable region.
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Analysis tools are developed for performance assessment of existing
control systems under actuator saturation.
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Examples are worked out in detail to demonstrate the usage
of the results developed.
This book is designed for a broad readership,
including practicing engineers, graduate students and researchers
in control theory and engineering.
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