Communications and Control Engineering
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Book 4
Book 5
Non-Adaptive and Adaptive Control of Manipulation Robots
by Miomir Vukobratovic
Published 1 October 1985
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Book 7
Presents a comprehensive and systematic approach to the dynamic modelling and control of biped locomotion robots. The text includes a survey of various approaches to the control of biped robots. A new approach to the control of biped systems based on a complete dynamic model is presented in detail. The stability of complete biped system is presented for the first time as a highly nonlinear dynamic system. Also included is software for the synthesis of a dynamically stable walk for arbitrary biped systems, presented here for the first time. A survey of various realizations of biped systems and numerous numerical examples are given.
New results, fresh ideas and new applications in automotive and flight control systems are presented in this second edition of Robust Control. The book presents parametric methods and tools for the simultaneous design of several representative operating conditions and several design specifications in the time and frequency domains. It also covers methods for robustness analysis that guarantee the desired properties for all possible values of the plant uncertainty. A lot of practical application experience enters into the case studies of driver support systems that avoid skidding and rollover of cars, automatic car steering systems, flight controllers for unstable aircraft and engine-out controllers. The book also shows the historic roots of the methods, their limitations and research needs in robust control.
The first German edition of this book appeared in 1972, and in Polish translation in 1976. It covered the analysis and synthesis of sampled-data systems. The second German edition of 1983 ex- tended the scope to design, in particular design for robustness of control system properties with respect to uncertainty of plant parameters. This book is a revised translation of the second Ger- man edition. The revisions concern primarily a new treatment of the finite effect sequences and the use of nice numerical proper- ties of Hessenberg forms. The introduction describes examples of sampled-data systems, in particular digital controllers, and analyzes the sampler and hold; also some design aspects are introduced. Chapter 2 reviews the modelling and analysis of continuous systems. Pole shifting is formulated as an affine mapping, here some n~w material on fixing some eigenvalues or some gains in a design step is included. Chapter 3 treats the analysis of sampled-data systems by state- space and z-transform methods. This includes sections on inter- sampling behavior, time-delay systems, absolute stability and non- synchronous sampling.
Chapter 4 treats controllability and reach- ability of discrete-time systems, controllability regions for con- strained inputs and the choice of the sampling interval primarily under controllability aspects. Chapter 5 deals with observability and constructability both from the discrete and continuous plant output. Full and reduced order observers are treated as well as disturbance observers.
Chapter 4 treats controllability and reach- ability of discrete-time systems, controllability regions for con- strained inputs and the choice of the sampling interval primarily under controllability aspects. Chapter 5 deals with observability and constructability both from the discrete and continuous plant output. Full and reduced order observers are treated as well as disturbance observers.
The approach presented here is based on the use of algebraic methods which are intrinsically linear, rather than differential geometric methods. This allows the exposition to remain simple from a mathematical point of view, and accessible for those with an understanding of linear control theory. It is divided into three parts: Part 1 is devoted to mathematical preliminaries and to the development of tools and methods for system analysis. Part 2 is concerned with solving specific control problems, including disturbance decoupling, non-interactive control, model matching and feedback linearization problems. Part 3 introduces differential algebraic notions and discusses their applications to nonlinear control and system theory. There are examples to illustrate theoretical results.