Implementation of Self-tuning Controllers

Kevin Warwick was previously a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering, University of Warwick. However, in August 1988 he took up the Professorship of Cybernetics and became Head of the Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading. He has previously held appointments at Oxford University, Imperial College, London and Newcastle University as well as being employed by British Telecom for six years. Dr. Warwick is a Chartered Engineer and serves on the Artificial Intelligence and Control and Systems Theory committees of the IEE, previously acting as a chairman for the latter. He is co-editor of the successful book 'Industrial digital control systems', which is an earlier volume in the series.He has published over seventy papers in the areas of his research interests which include system identification, adaptive control and state-space design. The main thrust of his present research lies in the field of intelligent control systems, with particular emphasis on high performance environments, such as sensor based robot control and autonomous vehicles.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to self-tuning controlChapter 2: RLS based estimation schemes for self-tuning controlChapter 3: LQG based self-tuning controllersChapter 4: Numerical algorithms in self-tuning controlChapter 5: Simplified algorithms for self-tuning controlChapter 6: A unified approach to adaptive controlChapter 7: Implementation of continuous-time controllersChapter 8: Software aspects of self-tuning controlChapter 9: Multistep predictive control and adaptationChapter 10: Application of extended prediction self-adaptive controlChapter 11: Self-tuning and self-adaptive PIP control systemsChapter 12: LQG adaptive autopilotsChapter 13: Self-tuning control: Case studies