Robust Control Design / RSP Bird (PDF)

Comprehensive and accessible guide to the three main approaches
to robust control design and its applications

Optimal control is a mathematical field that is concerned with
control policies that can be deduced using optimization algorithms.
The optimal control approach to robust control design differs from
conventional direct approaches to robust control that are more
commonly discussed by firstly translating the robust control
problem into its optimal control counterpart, and then solving the
optimal control problem.

Robust Control Design: An Optimal Control Approach offers
a complete presentation of this approach to robust control design,
presenting modern control theory in an concise manner. The other
two major approaches to robust control design, the H_infinite
approach and the Kharitonov approach, are also covered and
described in the simplest terms possible, in order to provide a
complete overview of the area. It includes up-to-date research, and
offers both theoretical and practical applications that include
flexible structures, robotics, and automotive and aircraft
control.

Robust Control Design: An Optimal Control Approach will
be of interest to those needing an introductory textbook on robust
control theory, design and applications as well as graduate and
postgraduate students involved in systems and control research.
Practitioners will also find the applications presented useful when
solving practical problems in the engineering field.