Books in the Advances in Industrial Control series

This book emphasizes the application of Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) gain scheduling techniques to the control of wind energy conversion systems.

This book offers a complete overview of fault-tolerant flight control techniques. Discussion covers the necessary equations for the modeling of small UAVs, a complete system based on extended Kalman filters, and a nonlinear flight control and guidance system.

This is the first book dedicated to direct continuous-time model identification for 15 years. The CONTSID toolbox discussed in the final chapter gives an overview of developments and practical examples in which MATLAB (R) can be used for direct time-domain identification of continuous-time systems.

This book describes the new framework of SDC system design and provides a comprehensive description of the modelling of controller design tools and their real-time implementation. The reader will learn how to expand their use of stochastic control methods.

The early 21st century has seen a renewed interest in research in the widely-adopted proportional-integral-differential (PID) form of control. Industrial practitioners and manufacturers of control systems with application problems relating to PID will find this to be a practical source of appropriate and advanced solutions.

The early 21st century has seen a renewed interest in research in the widely-adopted proportional-integral-differential (PID) form of control. Industrial practitioners and manufacturers of control systems with application problems relating to PID will find this to be a practical source of appropriate and advanced solutions.

This book develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter. These methods use an imaging system and a combination of inertial and altitude sensors.

This book gives readers a framework of model-based FDI techniques, helping them to become familiar with the basic ideas and schemes in a systematic way. Examples and benchmarks provide a means of practising the ideas and judging the methods described.

This up-to-date book details the basic concepts of many recent developments of nonlinear identification and nonlinear control, and their application to hydraulic servo-systems. It is very application-oriented and provides the reader with detailed working procedures and hints for implementation routines and software tools.

Maximizing reader insights into the latest technical developments and trends involving wind turbine control and monitoring, fault diagnosis, and wind power systems, ¿Wind Turbine Control and Monitoring¿ presents an accessible and straightforward introduction to wind turbines, but also includes an in-depth analysis incorporating illustrations, tables and examples on how to use wind turbine modeling and simulation software.Featuring analysis from leading experts and researchers in the field, the book provides new understanding, methodologies and algorithms of control and monitoring, computer tools for modeling and simulation, and advances the current state-of-the-art on wind turbine monitoring and fault diagnosis; power converter systems; and cooperative & fault-tolerant control systems for maximizing the wind power generation and reducing the maintenance cost.This book is primarily intended for researchers in the field of wind turbines, control, mechatronics and energy; postgraduates in the field of mechanical and electrical engineering; and graduate and senior undergraduate students in engineering wishing to expand their knowledge of wind energy systems. The book will also interest practicing engineers dealing with wind technology who will benefit from the comprehensive coverage of the theoretic control topics, the simplicity of the models and the use of commonly available control algorithms and monitoring techniques.

This book shows how an understanding of system dynamics is crucial to good performance and how that performance can be improved across a plant's operating range by using predictive control. It explains how different controllers can be applied.

Focusing on control methods that influence vehicle dynamics to assist the driver in passenger comfort, road holding, efficiency and safety of transport, etc., this monograph expounds various ideas based on a unified modeling and design method provided by the linear parameter varying (LPV) framework on individual-vehicle-component level.

MATLAB (R) routines, Simulink (R) diagrams and bench-test data available from author-hosted website

This book provides a description of power train control for hybrid vehicles. Coverage includes real-time-implementable strategies that can approximate an optimal solution, including one that is adaptive for vehicle conditions like velocity and mass.

New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies , new challenges.

Whereas other books in this area stick to the theory, this book shows the reader how to apply the theory to real engines. It provides access to up-to-date perspectives in the use of a variety of modern advanced control techniques to gas turbine technology.

This text offers the material necessary to understand servo control in automation. It begins with a macroscopic view, treating drives and control as parts of a single system, before it pursues a detailed discussion of the major components of servo control.

This book reviews the theoretical fundamentals of grey-box identification and puts the spotlight on MoCaVa, a MATLAB-compatible software tool, for facilitating the procedure of effective grey-box identification. It demonstrates the application of MoCaVa using two case studies drawn from the paper and steel industries.

This book explores the research and development of fully-functional miniature rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). It also provides a complete treatment of their design and examines possible future research directions.

Voltage Control and Protection in Electrical Power Systems

The analysis and computational techniques associated with the navigation and guidance of spacecraft are now in a mature state of development. Attention is paid to all phases of a space mission including launch and re-entry, and whether culminating in an earth satellite or a deep space mission to planets or primitive bodies.

The material presented in this book addresses the analysis and design of learning control systems. The text follows with a complete and unifying analysis of the learning control problem for linear LTI systems using a system-theoretic approach which offers insight into the nature of the solution of the learning control problem.

This book covers nonlinear dynamic modeling and stability analysis of flexible riser systems, advanced control design for an installation system with a single rigid payload attached by thrusters, robust adaptive control for mooring systems and other topics.

This book joins new modifications of classical relay feedback test with application-specific optimal tuning rules to form a non-parametric test-and-tuning method. Includes problems of optimization and identification accompanied by downloadable MATLAB (R) code.