Control of Nonlinear and Hybrid Process Systems: Designs for Uncertainty, Constraints and Time-Delays (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences) ... Notes in Control and Information Sciences)

This monograph provides insight and fundamental understanding into the feedback control of nonlinear and hybrid process systems. It presents state-of-the-art methods for the synthesis of nonlinear feedback controllers for nonlinear and hybrid systems with uncertainty, constraints and time-delays with numerous applications, especially to chemical processes. It covers both state feedback and output feedback (including state estimator design) controller designs. Control of Nonlinear and Hybrid Process Systems includes numerous comments and remarks providing insight and fundamental understanding into the feedback control of nonlinear and hybrid systems, as well as applications that demonstrate the implementation and effectiveness of the presented control methods. The book includes many detailed examples which can be easily modified by a control engineer to be tailored to a specific application. This book is useful for researchers in control systems theory, graduate students pursuing their degree in control systems and control engineers. Introduction....Pages 1-14 Background on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Systems....Pages 15-31 Control of Nonlinear Systems with Uncertainty....Pages 33-73 Control of Nonlinear Systems with Uncertainty and Constraints....Pages 75-126 Hybrid Predictive Control of Constrained Linear Systems....Pages 127-177 Hybrid Predictive Control of Nonlinear and Uncertain Systems....Pages 179-223 Control of Hybrid Nonlinear Systems....Pages 225-275 Fault-Tolerant Control of Process Systems....Pages 277-310 Control of Nonlinear Systems with Time Delays....Pages 311-356