Robust Control Design with MATLAB®

Professor Da-Wei Gu has been involved with many industrial projects in aerospace and manufacturing and has received significant funding from EPSRC, EU and industry. He has been actively engaged in the area of coordinated control of uninhabited air vehicles, with emphasis in autonomy. He is also a major contributor to the Garteur action group on Autonomous Systems. His theoretical achievements and practical work in robust and optimal control are important in writing a book that will give valuable theoretical and practical knowledge to the readers. Professor Petko H. Petkov has been using  MATLAB® in research and education from 1984. He has significant expertise in numerical methods and programming that allows to teach the reader how to develop high performance  software for solving robust control design problems. Professor Mihail M. Konstantinov has made significant contributions to numercal analysis and robust control theory and a long and rich educational experience that will help to present to the reader a solid but accessible text  on robust control systems design.

• Part I: Basic Methods and Theory.- Introduction.- Uncertainties in Control Systems.- Robust Design Specifications.- H-infinity Design.- H-infinity Loop-shaping Design Procedure.- mu-synthesis and Analysis.- LMI Design.- Lower-order Controllers.- Part II: Introduction to Robust Control Toolbox® 3.- Building Uncertain Models.- Robust Stability and Robust Performance Analysis.- Loop-shaping Design Programs.- H Design Programs.- -synthesis and DK-iteration Programs.- Using LMI Lab, Model Reduction Programs for Robust  Aerodynamic System.- Control.- Part III: Design Examples.- Robust Control of a Hard Disk Drive.- A Triple Inverted Pendulum-control-system Design.- Robust Control of a Distillation Column.- Robust Control of a Flexible link Manipulator.- Robust Contol of a Two-rotor.- Aerodynamic System.- Robust Control of a Two-rotor Aerodynamic System- Robust Control of Two-wheeled Self-balancing Robot.