Advances in Control Systems

Theory and Applications

C. T. Leondes

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781483167176
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483194653
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Advances in Control Systems: Theory and Applications, Volume 1 provides information pertinent to the significant progress in the field of automatic control. This book presents several fundamental approaches to algorithms for the determination of optimum control inputs to a system. Organized into six chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the optimal method of controlling a given system with respect to the given criterion of performance. This text then summarizes some of the basic results of the maximum principle and illustrates how they may be exploited in control system studies. Other chapters consider the fundamental approach underlying almost all the existing works on the control of distributed parameter systems. This book discusses as well some important concepts in the theory of optimal control. The final chapter deals with the problem of controlling processes under the condition of uncertain changes in the process to be controlled. This book is a valuable resource for practicing engineers, applied mathematicians, and scientists.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Advances in Control Systems: Theory and Applications
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• CONTRIBUTORS
• PREFACE
• Chapter 1. On Optimal and Suboptimal Policies in Control Systems
• Chapter 2. The Pontryagin Maximum Principle and Some of Its Applications
• Chapter 3. Control of Distributed Parameter Systems
• Chapter 4. Optimal Control for Systems Described by Difference Equations
• Chapter 5. An Optimal Control Problem with State Vector Measurement Errors
• Chapter 6. On Line Computer Control Techniques and Their Application to Re-entry Aerospace Vehicle Control
• Appendix 1: Notation and Concise Statement of Problems
• Appendix 2: A Brute Force Method for the Quadratic Programming Problem
• Appendix 3: Quadratic Programming Theorems
• Appendix 4: A Recursive Method to Obtain the Best Estimate
• Appendix 5: Correspondence between Greville's and Kalman's Recursive Procedures
• List of Symbols
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index