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Hybrid Feedback Control
by Ricardo G. Sanfelice
Hybrid control systems exhibit both discrete changes, or jumps, and continuous changes, or flow. An example of a hybrid control system is the automatic control of the temperature in a room: the temperature changes continuously, but the control algorithm toggles the heater on or off intermittently, triggering a discrete jump within the algorithm. Hybrid control systems feature widely across disciplines, including biology, computer science, and engineering, and examples range from the control of cellular responses to self-driving cars. Although classical control theory provides powerful tools for analyzing systems that exhibit either flow or jumps, it is ill-equipped to handle hybrid control systems.
In Hybrid Feedback Control, Ricardo Sanfelice presents a self-contained introduction to hybrid control systems and develops new tools for their analysis and design. Hybrid behavior can occur in one or more subsystems of a feedback system, and Sanfelice offers a unified control theory framework, filling an important gap in the control theory literature. In addition to the theoretical framework, he includes a plethora of examples and exercises, a Matlab toolbox (as well as two open-source versions), and an insightful overview at the beginning of each chapter.
Relevant to dynamical systems theory, applied mathematics, and computer science, Hybrid Feedback Control will be useful to students and researchers working on hybrid systems, cyber-physical systems, control, and automation.
Ricardo G. Sanfelice is professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the coauthor of Hybrid Dynamical Systems (Princeton).
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Praise for the book:
”Hybrid Feedback Control delves into the design of hybrid controllers and how they can solve a wide variety of control problems. This book helpfully features a large number of detailed examples that look at real physical systems, and a useful Matlab toolbox.”—Daniel Liberzon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
”Hybrid systems and control design have many applications in fields ranging from mechanical engineering and computer science to biology. This well-organized book provides convincing examples of hybrid controllers that offer desired closed-loop system responses where traditional control techniques do not work.”—Sergey Nersesov, Villanova University
”The subject of this book, the theory of hybrid systems and control, is timely, relevant, and important. I am not aware of any competing books that address this topic with the same level of detail.”—Alessandro Astolfi, Imperial College London
ISBN 9780691180229
424 pages
7 x 10 inches
2021 copyright
Price: $75.00 / £62.00
