Stability and Robustness or Multivariable Feedback Systems, Paperback by Safo...

Stability and Robustness or Multivariable response Systems, Paperback by Safonov, Michael George, ISBN 0262693046, ISBN-13 9780262693042, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

This book on stability theory and robustness will interest researchers and advanced graduate students in the area of response control engineering, circuits, and systems. It will also appeal to mathematicians who are involved in applications of functional analysis to engineering problems. Th provides a methodology for the rigorous treatment of such inherently response aspects of dynamical system design as robustness and sensitivity, just as many researchers are beginning to realize that this type of methodology is mandatory if modern systems theory is to be used to design complicated multivariable and large-scale systems. The main objective of th is to provide a clear mathematical formulation of the issues that arise in designing response systems that are robust against the destabilizing effects of unknown-but-bounded uncertainty in component dynamics. It is the first study to identify formal methods for the quantitative analysis of multiloop response system robustness. The view that is presents of nonlinear, multiloop response system stability theory is unique, lucid, and conceptually appealing. Lyapunov and input-output stability theories are unified in a new and simple geometrical perspective based on the topological separation of spaces. This perspective greatly facilitates visualization of the underlying conceptual issues in stability and robustness theory and serves to motivate specific results concerning the robustness of response systems. Potentially, this methodology may be applied to nonlinear response design, validation of modeling approximations, hierarchical control system design, and stability margin analysis for multiloop response systems. This book is the third publication in The MIT Press Series in Signal Processing, Optimization, and Control, edited by Alan S. Willsky.