Essays on Control

Information, Knowledge and Control.- Hybrid Models for Motion Control Systems.- Some Control Problems in the Process Industries.- Engineering Aspects of Industrial Applications of Model-Based Control Techniques and System Theory.- Towards a Joint Design of Identification and Control?.- Nonlinear State Space H? Control Theory.- Learning Control and Related Problems in Infinite-Dimensional Systems.- An Algebraic Approach to Linear and Nonlinear Control.- Robust Multivariable Control Using H? Methods: Analysis, Design and Industrial Applications.- Neural Networks for Control.- Neural Networks for Adaptive Control and Recursive Identification: A Theoretical Framework.