This book presents new computational tools for the H? control of distributed parameter systems in which transfer functions are considered as input-output descriptions for the plants to be controlled. The emphasis is on the computation of the controller parameters and reliable implementation. The authors present recent studies showing that the simplified skew-Toeplitz method is applicable to a wide class of systems, supply detailed examples from systems with time delays and various engineering applications, and discuss reliable implementation of the controller, complemented by a software based on MATLAB. Frequency Domain Techniques for H? Control of Distributed Parameter Systems is intended for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students interested in robust control of distributed parameter systems?time delay systems?as well as researchers and engineers working in related fields. It can be used in the following courses: Introduction to Robust Control with Applications to Distributed Parameter Systems and Introduction to Robust Control with Applications to Time Delay Systems.

A comprehensive and lucid text that relates frequency domain techniques to state-space or time domain approaches for infinite-dimensional systems.

This book presents new computational tools for the H? control of distributed parameter systems in which transfer functions are considered as input-output descriptions for the plants to be controlled. The emphasis is on the computation of the controller parameters and reliable implementation. The authors present recent studies showing that the simplified skew-Toeplitz method is applicable to a wide class of systems, supply detailed examples from systems with time delays and various engineering applications, and discuss reliable implementation of the controller, complemented by a software based on MATLAB. Frequency Domain Techniques for H? Control of Distributed Parameter Systems is intended for advanced undergraduate and early graduate students interested in robust control of distributed parameter systems?time delay systems?as well as researchers and engineers working in related fields. It can be used in the following courses: Introduction to Robust Control with Applications to Distributed Parameter Systems and Introduction to Robust Control with Applications to Time Delay Systems.

Often in process simulation studies and process control it is desirable to have an approximate transfer function that could be used for dynamic simulation via analog computer or for feedforward control algorithms. The scope of the work is concerned with developing a general analytical technique that can be easily implemented in obtaining approximate transfer functions for distributive parameter systems of the convective type, where the spacial dependence of the dependent variable is of little interest from a control viewpoint. This technique relies on a distributed parameter model that is transformed into ordinary differential equations in the frequency domain. These equations are then analyzed in the frequency domain using well known classical techniques. The frequency solution of the ordinary differential equation provides the necessary data to carry out regressions on the parameters of the postulated transfer function.