Springer Process Control: The Passive Systems Approach (Advances in Industrial Control)

Passivity and associated stability conditions form one of the cornerstones in control theory and have begun to be applied in process control. In this book, passivity-based developments in all areas of control theory are addressed systematically for the first time. The emphasis is placed on real results that add insight. Case studies illustrate applications in all the main chapters. MATLAB® routines and a library of functions that implement the methods developed in the book can be downloaded from springer.com. Review From the reviews: “Process Control: The Passive Systems Approach provides material that is potentially valuable to students and researchers interested in learning the fundamentals of passivity-based methods and their application to chemical process control and thermodynamics. … The main strength of the book is that it shows that passivity can provide a formalism for studying process control. Relevant results are reviewed, and interesting research questions are posed. … Overall, the book is useful as a reference and as a source of new research ideas.” (B. Erik Ydstie, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, February, 2010) From the Back Cover Process Control introduces an emerging area in process control – control system analysis and design based on the concept of passive systems. Passive systems are a class of processes that dissipate certain types of physical or virtual energy, defined by Lyapunov-like functions. Passivity and associated stability conditions form one of the cornerstones in control theory and have recently begun to be applied in process control. Defined as an input-output property, the concept of passivity implies stability conditions for interconnected systems. Passive systems are minimum phase and thus very easy to control via output feedback, even if they are highly nonlinear and coupled. Therefore, the passivity framework can be used in process input-output controllability analysis as well as control design. Here, the concept of passive systems is also linked to process thermodynamics to provide process engineers with insights into the physical bases of the above results. In this book, passivity-based developments in the areas of robust process control, decentralized control, fault tolerant control, process controllability analysis and nonlinear process control are addressed systematically for the first time. Written for the industrial, engineering and academic communities, the emphasis is placed on results that enhance insight and intuition. Application issues are illustrated by case studies in all the main chapters. MATLAB® routines for selected examples and a library of functions that implement the system analysis and control design methods developed in Process Control can be downloaded from springer.com. This book presents the reader with both the conceptual framework and practical tools for passivity-based system analysis and control. About the Author Jie Bao holds the position of Senior Lecturer; he has industrial experience in China with the Control and Measurement Division of ZUSTD Corp. He is a reviewer for several journals including: Journal of Process Control, Journal of Membrane Science, IEEE Automatic Control and ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control. In the last seven years, he has published 16 papers in archival journals. Peter Lee is currently the Executive Dean of Engineering, Science and Computing at Curtin University of Technology. Previously he held senior positions at Murdoch University and the University of Queensland. He also worked with ICI Australia for a number of years. He has worked in Process Control for the last 25 years, both in academe and industry. An author of 3 books and over 220 papers, he also has an active consultancy practice in the feasibility, development and application of process control methods. He is also a consultant to the United Nations Industry Development Organisati