Contents

## **Preface** XI



Contents VII

Chapter 18 **Robust Control for Single Unit** 

**Resource Allocation Systems 391** 

Chapter 19 **Design of Robust Policies for Uncertain** 

Chapter 20 **Robustness and Security of H-Synchronizer** 

Shengyong Wang, Song Foh Chew and Mark Lawley

**the Classic Gordon-Schaefer Fishery Model 415** 

Takami Matsuo, Yusuke Totoki and Haruo Suemitsu

**Natural Resource Systems: Application to**

Armando A. Rodriguez, Jeffrey J. Dickeson, John M. Anderies and Oguzhan Cifdaloz

**in Chaotic Communication System 443**

	- **Part 3 Distillation Process Control and Food Industry Applications 233**
	- **Part 4 Power Plant and Power System Control 303**
	- **Part 5 Selected Issues and New Trends in Robust Control Applications 347**

Chapter 18 **Robust Control for Single Unit Resource Allocation Systems 391**  Shengyong Wang, Song Foh Chew and Mark Lawley

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Chapter 8 **Robust Control of Mechanical Systems 171**  Joaquín Alvarez and David Rosas

Chapter 10 **Discussion on Robust Control Applied** 

**Part 3 Distillation Process Control** 

Chapter 13 **Loop Transfer Recovery for** 

Chen He and Bai Hong

Chapter 16 **Robust Networked Control 349**  Wojciech Grega

Tetsuo Shiotsuki

**Part 5 Selected Issues and New Trends**

Olli Pyrhönen and Adam K. Piłat

Chapter 11 **Reactive Distillation: Control Structure** 

Chapter 9 **Robust Control of Electro-Hydraulic Actuator Systems** 

Jong Shik Kim, Han Me Kim and Sung Hwan Park

**to Active Magnetic Bearing Rotor System 207** 

Rafal P. Jastrzebski, Alexander Smirnov,

**and Food Industry Applications 233** 

**and Process Design for Robustness 235**  V. Pavan Kumar Malladi and Nitin Kaistha

Chapter 12 **Robust Multivariable Control of Ill-Conditioned Plants – A Case Study for High-Purity Distillation 257** 

> **the Grape Juice Concentration Process 281**  Nelson Aros Oñate and Graciela Suarez Segali

**Environmental Effects of Thermal Power Plants 305**

**for Damping Inter-Area Oscillation of Power System 331**

**Communication Systems over Inferior Quality Network 373**

Kiyanoosh Razzaghi and Farhad Shahraki

**Part 4 Power Plant and Power System Control 303**

Chapter 14 **A Robust and Flexible Control System to Reduce** 

Toru Eguchi, Takaaki Sekiai, Naohiro Kusumi, Akihiro Yamada, Satoru Shimizu and Masayuki Fukai

Chapter 15 **Wide-Area Robust** *H***2/***H***<sup>∞</sup> Control with Pole Placement** 

**in Robust Control Applications 347** 

Chapter 17 **An Application of Robust Control for Force** 

**Using the Adaptive Back-Stepping Control Scheme 189** 


Preface

demonstrated in this book.

system for high-speed rotors.

The main purpose of control engineering is to steer the regulated plant in such a way that it operates in a required manner. The desirable performance of the plant should be obtained despite the unpredictable influence of the environment on all parts of the control system, including the plant itself, and no matter if the system designer knows precisely all the parameters of the plant. Even though the parameters may change with time, load and external circumstances, still the system should preserve its nominal properties and ensure the required behavior of the plant. In other words, the principal objective of control engineering is to design and implement regulation systems which are robust with respect to external disturbances and modeling uncertainty. This objective may very well be obtained in a number of ways which are discussed and

Book is divided into five sections. In section 1 selected aircraft, vehicle and automotive applications are presented. That section begins with a contribution on rotorcraft control. The first chapter presents input-output linearization based on sliding mode controller for a quadrotor. Chapter 2 gives a comparison of different advanced control architectures for transonic phase of space re-entry vehicle flight. Then chapter 3 discusses the problem of robust fault tolerant, vertical motion control of modular underwater autonomous robot for environment sampling. The last three chapters in section 1 present solutions of the most important control problems encountered in automotive industry. They describe the second order sliding mode control of spark ignition engine idle speed, new active suspension control method reducing the

passenger's seat vibrations and advanced adaptive cruise control system design.

Section 2 begins with a chapter on H-infinity active controller design for minimizing mechanical vibration of structures. Then it focuses on robust control of mechanical systems, i.e. uncertain Lagrangian systems with partially unavailable state variables, and adaptive back-stepping control of electro-hydraulic actuators. The last chapter in that section is concerned with the control of active magnetic bearing suspension

Section 3 consists of three contributions on the control of distillation and multi-step evaporation processes. The first chapter, concerned with a generic double feed tworeactant two-product ideal reactive distillation and the methyl acetate reactive
