Apply nonlinear control

Author: (USA) Sloughton
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features:
Introduction: This book provides a detailed exploration of modern nonlinear control system analysis and design techniques, offering tools for analyzing nonlinear control systems. The main contents include phase plane analysis, describing function analysis, feedback linearization, sliding mode control, and adaptive control, among others. Additionally, it provides a wealth of examples and exercises to facilitate teaching.
Key Features of the Book:
Readability: The book pays close attention to the careful arrangement of concepts, intuitive explanations of results, and the appropriate selection of mathematical tools. All major concepts and results are illustrated with examples. As long as readers have a basic foundation in elementary control theory, ordinary differential equations, and fundamental matrix algebra, they will find the book easy to understand.
Practicality: The selection of materials and focus are designed to enable engineers and students to address real-world control problems in industry. The content provided offers readers insights into solving practical issues.
Comprehensiveness: The book covers both classic topics (e.g., Lyapunov methods, describing function methods) and modern theories (e.g., feedback linearization, adaptive control, sliding mode control). For beginners, more challenging chapters are marked with an asterisk and can be skipped if desired.
Advancement: In recent years, the field of nonlinear control has achieved many new breakthroughs, particularly in nonlinear system control design and robotics. The book presents these important new findings and their applications in a clear and accessible manner.
The book systematically introduces the fundamental control theories of modern nonlinear systems and their applications in practical nonlinear control system design, providing tools for analyzing nonlinear control systems. The main contents include: phase plane analysis, describing function analysis, feedback linearization, sliding mode control, and adaptive control, among others. The book emphasizes engineering applications, with numerous examples and exercises provided in each chapter for teaching purposes.
Focusing on basic concepts and applications, the book has a clear structure and strong readability, making it suitable not only as a textbook or reference for senior undergraduate and graduate students in higher education institutions but also as a reference for researchers.