Springer Advances in H∞ Control Theory: Switched, Delayed, and Biological Systems: 481 (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 481)

Advances in H∞  Control Theory is concerned with state-of-the-art developments in three areas: the extended treatment of mostly deterministic switched systems with dwell-time; the control of retarded stochastic state-multiplicative noisy systems; and a new approach to the control of biochemical systems, exemplified by the threonine synthesis and glycolytic pathways. Following an introduction and extensive literature survey, each of these major topics is the subject of an individual part of the book. The first two parts of the book contain several practical examples taken from various fields of control engineering including aircraft control, robot manipulation and process control. These examples are taken from the fields of deterministic switched systems and state-multiplicative noisy systems. The text is rounded out with short appendices covering mathematical fundamentals: σ-algebra and the input-output method for retarded systems. Advances in H∞  Control Theory is written for engineers engaged in control systems research and development, for applied mathematicians interested in systems and control and for graduate students specializing in stochastic control. From the Back Cover Advances in H∞  Control Theory is concerned with state-of-the-art developments in three areas: the extended treatment of mostly deterministic switched systems with dwell-time; the control of retarded stochastic state-multiplicative noisy systems; and a new approach to the control of biochemical systems, exemplified by the threonine synthesis and glycolytic pathways. Following an introduction and extensive literature survey, each of these major topics is the subject of an individual part of the book. The first two parts of the book contain several practical examples taken from various fields of control engineering including aircraft control, robot manipulation and process control. These examples are taken from the fields of deterministic switched systems and state-multiplicative noisy systems. The text is rounded out with short appendices covering mathematical fundamentals: σ-algebra and the input-output method for retarded systems. Advances in H∞  Control Theory is written for engineers engaged in control systems research and development, for applied mathematicians interested in systems and control and for graduate students specializing in stochastic control. About the Author Eli Gershon received his first PhD in Electrophysiology from Tel-aviv University in 1992 and his second PhD, at the same university, in control engineering in 2003. He has been an associate  professor at Holon Institute of Technology since 2014 and has served as an lecturer in Control engineering at Tel-aviv University since 2003.Professor Gershon has published well over 70 journal and conference papers and has written two text books on control theory and two research monographs: H-infinity Control and Estimation of State-multiplicative Linear Systems and Advanced Topics in Control and Estimation of State-Multiplicative Noisy Systems (both Springer).Professor Gershon's research interests include: stochastic control, robust control, switched and delayed system and system biology. Uri Shaked received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1974. He has been a full professor at Tel Aviv University since 1987. Professor Shaked has published well over 200 papers in archival journals and has written four text books on control theory and two research monographs: H-infinity Control and Estimation of State-multiplicative Linear Systems and Advanced Topics in Control and Estimation of State-Multiplicative Noisy Systems (both Springer). Professor Shaked has acted as advisor to 12 PhD students and is a Fellow of the IEEE (Control Systems Society) and the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.