Bartoszewicz A. (ed.) Robust Control, Theory and Applications

First published March, 2011
Printed in India
ISBN 978-953-307-229-6
692 p.The main purpose of control engineering is to steer the regulated plant in such a way that it operates in a required manner. The desirable performance of the plant should be obtained despite the unpredictable infl uence of the environment on all parts of the control system, including the plant itself, and no mat er if the system designer knows precisely all the parameters of the plant. Even though the parameters may change with time, load and external circumstances, still the system should preserve its nominal properties and ensure the required behaviour of the plant. In other words, the principal objective of control engineering is to design control (or regulation) systems which are robust with respect to external disturbances and modelling uncertainty. This ob-
jective may very well be obtained in a number of ways which are discussed in this monograph.