Symbolic Methods in Control System Analysis and Design

Fifteen contributions provide an up-to-date treatment of issues in system modeling, system analysis, design and synthesis methods, and nonlinear systems. Coverage includes the application of multidimensional Laplace transforms to the modeling of nonlinear elements, a survey of customized computer algebra modeling programs for multibody dynamical systems, robust control of linear systems using a new linear programming approach, the development and testing of a new branch-and-bound algorithm fir global optimization using symbolic algebra techniques, and dynamic sliding mode control design using symbolic algebra tools.

Advances in computer technology have had a major effect on control engineering
, not only in the implementation of control systems but also for control system
analysis and design. They have allowed new algorithms and techniques to be ...