Quantitative Process Control Theory

Content: Introduction  A Brief History of Control Theory  Design of Feedback Control Systems  Consideration on Control System Design  What This Book Is About        Classical Analysis Methods  Process Dynamic Responses  Rational Approximations of Time Delay  Time Domain Performance Indices  Frequency Response Analysis  Transformation of Two Commonly Used Models  Design Requirements and Controller Comparison        Essentials of the Robust Control Theory  Norms and System Gains  Internal Stability and Performance  Controller Parameterization  Robust Stability and Robust Performance  Robustness of the System with Time Delay        H  PID Controllers for Stable Plants  Traditional Design Methods  H  PID Controller for the First-Order Plant  The H  PID Controller and the Smith Predictor  Quantitative Performance and Robustness  H  PID Controller for the Second-Order Plant All Stabilizing PID Controllers for Stable Plants        H2 PID Controllers for Stable Plants  H2 PID Controller for the First-Order Plant  Quantitative Tuning of H2 PID Controller  H2 PID Controller for the Second-Order Plant  Control of Inverse Response Processes  PID Controller Based on the Maclaurin Series Expansion  PID Controller with the Best Achievable Performance  Choice of the Filter        Control of Stable Plants  The Quasi-H  Smith Predictor  The H2 Optimal Controller and the Smith Predictor  Equivalents of the Optimal Controller  PID Controller and High-Order Controllers  Choice of the Weighting Function  Simplified Tuning for Quantitative Robustness        Control of Integrating Plants  Feature of Integrating Systems  H  PID Controller for Integrating Plants  H2 PID Controller for Integrating Plants  Controller Design for General Integrating Plants  Maclaurin PID Controller for Integrating Plants  The Best Achievable Performance of a PID Controller        Control of Unstable Plants  Controller Parameterization for General Plants  H  PID Controller for Unstable Plants  H2 PID Controller for Unstable Plants  Performance Limitation and Robustness  Maclaurin PID Controller for Unstable Plants  PID Design for the Best Achievable Performance All Stabilizing PID Controllers for Unstable Plants        Complex Control Strategies  The 2DOF Structure for Stable Plants  The 2DOF Structure for Unstable Plants  Cascade Control  An Anti-Windup Structure  Feedforward Control  Optimal Input Disturbance Rejection  Control of Plants with Multiple Time Delays        Analysis of MIMO Systems  Zeros and Poles of a MIMO Plant  Singular Values  Norms for Signals and Systems  Nominal Stability and Performance  Robust Stability of MIMO Systems  Robust Performance of MIMO Systems         Classical Design Methods for MIMO Systems  Interaction Analysis  Decentralized Controller Design  Decoupler Design        Quasi-H  Decoupling Control  Diagonal Factorization for Quasi- H  Control  Quasi- H  Controller Design  Analysis for Quasi- H  Control Systems  Increasing Time Delays for Performance Improvement  A Design Example for Quasi- H  Control  Multivariable PID Controller Design        H2 Decoupling Control  Controller Parameterization for MIMO Systems  Diagonal Factorization for H2 Control  H2 Optimal Decoupling Control  Analysis for H2 Decoupling Control Systems  Design Examples for H2 Decoupling Control         Multivariable H2 Optimal Control  Factorization for Simple RHP Zeros  Construction Procedure of Factorization  Factorization for Multiple RHP Zeros Analysis and Computation  Solution to the H2 Optimal Control Problem  Filter Design  Examples for H2 Optimal Controller Designs         Bibliography    Index        A Summary, Exercises, Notes, and References appear at the end of each chapter.