Robust Control Engineering

There had been a big vacuum as far as textbooks on QFT is concerned. The books in market are either outdated and not easily available or do not discuss examples with MATLAB extensively as your book does. Your book completely fills in that gap with more updated information and relevant MATLAB based examples. The book is complete and self-contained with a wide variety of examples as ranging from Satellite control to Wind Turbine control - all using QFT techniques. Further, from a student point of view, many projects have been discussed with QFT MATLAB toolbox which is a highlight of this book and hence a definite must have for anyone interested, doing research and working in this field. The author has blended his practical experience also into this book which makes it unique and the favourite of any QFT designer. - Rajesh Joseph Abraham, Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology, India Professor Garcia-Sanz is one of the leading exponents of the robust control design method, which is referred to as quantitative feedback theory (QFT). This excellent text introduces the fundamentals of QFT and provides control solutions for a range of systems including unstable, transport delay, non-minimum phase and distributed parameter systems. The QFT design method provides real robustness to uncertainties of various types. The method originated from the work of Professor Isaac Horowitz but this book extends his original work in many ways. It is particularly valuable for the range of applications considered including wind turbines, wastewater treatment plants, power systems, satellites, radio telescopes and manufacturing systems. A feature of such design texts is that they often contain MATLAB toolboxes to enable the design methods to be assessed. In this case the book includes problems where the MATLAB QFT control toolbox can be applied. This was developed by the author. The book is written in a style that should be very accessible to engineers, particularly those that have a classical control engineering background. In fact, it provides access to modern multivariable control design methods but it is based upon frequency response ideas that should be very familiar to most engineers. The layout of the text is excellent and it includes numerous examples and problems. It should be valuable to experienced engineers working on real control design applications but it is also suitable for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing courses on control engineering. It is recommended for the bookshelves of engineers or the more economical eBook version can be convenient. - Applied Control Technology Consortium E-News, 2017 Issue This book covers the fundamentals of robust control using quantitative feedback theory (QFT). Practical control solutions are provided for unstable, time-delay, nonminimum phase, or distributed parameter systems. Moreover, plants with large model uncertainty and/or high-performance specifications, nonlinear components, and multi-input, multi- output characteristics or asymmetric topologies are also considered. The reader will discover practical applications through a collection of 50 real-world case studies and projects, in which the author has been involved over the last 25 years. These applications include commercial wind turbines, wastewater treatment plants, power systems, spacecraft with flexible appendages, large radio telescopes, and industrial manufacturing systems. The book presents problems and projects using the QFT Control Toolbox for MATLAB, which was developed by the author. -IEEE Control Systems Magazine, December 2017 Issue