Description
Book SynopsisTracking is the goal of control of any object, plant, process, or vehicle. From vehicles and missiles to power plants, tracking is essential to guarantee high-quality behavior.
Nonlinear Systems Tracking establishes the tracking theory, trackability theory, and tracking control synthesis for time-varying nonlinear plants and their control systems as parts of control theory. Treating general dynamical and control systems, including subclasses of input-output and state-space nonlinear systems, the book:
- Describes the crucial tracking control concepts that comprise effective tracking control algorithms
- Defines the main tracking and trackability properties involved, identifying properties both perfect and imperfect
- Details the corresponding conditions needed for the controlled plant to exhibit each property
- Discusses various algorithms for tracking control synthesis, attacking the tracking control synthesis problems themselv
Trade Review
"Numerous publications and books present various aspects of tracking, but I do not know of another book only devoted to tracking and its various aspects. ... I used to teach tracking in my courses of process control and stability analysis of complex nonlinear systems, and this book could be very interesting to improve my courses. ... This book gives a complete presentation of the various aspects of tracking of nonlinear and/or time varying systems, including the determination of the maximum error for ill-defined and/or perturbed systems."
—Pierre Borne, École Centrale de Lille, France
Table of Contents
Preface. Systems and Control Basis. Trackability. Perfect Tracking. Imperfect Tracking: Stable Tracking. Criteria for Stable Tracking. Finite Reachability Time Tracking. Required Tracking Quality and Control Synthesis. Conclusion. Appendices. Used Literature. Indexes.
