Trends in Control

This book contains the text of the plenary lectures and the mini-courses of the European Control Conference (ECC 95) held in Rome, Italy, September 5-September 8, 1995. In particular, the book includes nine essays in which a selected number of prominent authorities present their views on some of the most recent developments in the theory and practice of control systems design and three self-contained sets of lecture notes. Some of the essays are focused on the topic of robust control. The article by J. Ackermann describes how to robustly control the rotational motions of a vehicle, to the purpose of simplifying the driver's task. The contribution by H. K wakernaak presents a detailed discussion of the requirements that performance and robustness impose on control systems design and of the symmetric roles of sensitivity and complementary sensitivity functions. The article by P. Boulet, B. A. Francis, P. C . Hughes and T. Hong describes an experimental testbed facility, called Daisy, whose dynamics emulate those of a real large flexible space structure and whose purpose is to test advanced identification and control design methods. The article of K. Glover discusses recent advances in uncertain system modeling, analysis and design, with ref erence to a flight control case study that has been test flown. The other essays describe advances in fundamental problems of control theory. The article by V. A. Yakubovich is a survey of certain new infinite horizon linear-quadratic optimization problems. The contribution by A. S.

Klappentext

This volume offers the keynote contributions of the 3rd European Control Conference to be held in Rome in September 1995. It has been edited by Professor Isidori, the Conference Chairman, and presents topics of particular relevance to modern control engineering. None of this material will appear in the full Proceedings. The first part includes ten essays on recent advances in linear-quadratic regulation, robust control and filtering, system parameter identification, automotive control and control of large flexible structures. The invited contributors are leading international experts in their fields. The second part presents the lecture notes of three mini-courses, held in parallel to ECC. The subjects are: feedback stabilisation of non-linear systems, discrete event dynamical systems and computer vision and control.

Inhalt
Safe and Comfortable Travel by Robust Control.- Symmetries in Control System Design.- Universal Regulators in Linear-Quadratic Optimization Problems.- Control Using Logic-Based Switching.- Daisy: A Large Flexible Space Structure Testbed for Advanced Control Experiments.- Progress in Applied Robust Control.- Chain-Scattering Approach to Control System Design.- Mixed H2/H? Control.- to the Modelling, Control and Optimization of Discrete Event Systems.- Feedback Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems: Sufficient Conditions and Lyapunov and Input-output Techniques.- System-Theoretic Aspects of Dynamic Vision.- Numerical Algorithms for Subspace State Space System Identification.