Recently, there have been significant developments in robust control of time-delay systems. This volume presents a systematic treatment of robust control for such systems in the frequency domain. The emphasis is on systems with a single input or output delay, although the delay-free part of the plant can be multi-input-multi-output, in which case the delays in different channels should be the same.
The author covers the whole range of H-infinity control of time-delay systems: from controller parameterization implementation; from the Nehari problem to the four-block problem; from theoretical developments to practical issues. The major tools used are similarity transformation, the chain-scattering approach and J-spectral factorization.
Self-contained, "Robust Control of Time-delay Systems" will interest control theorists and mathematicians working with time-delay systems. Its methodical approach will be of value to graduates studying general robust control theory or its applications in time-delay systems.
From the reviews:
The book is composed of 231 pages, an Introduction and two parts. ? This book joins a number of others that have appeared in the past ten years on TDS. ? I found this book very interesting and informative. It contains recent results on robust control for single-input delay systems and will be very useful for Ph.D. students and researchers.
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 53 (2008) 636 - 637 (Reviewer: Olivier Sename)
The book contains many examples that are helpful for readers to gain better understanding of the underlying concepts and key ideas. The book can be a useful reference for researchers and industrial practitioners and can also be used as a text for a post-graduate level course on delay systems.
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control 19 (2009) 611 - 612 (Reviewer: Lihua Xie)
The aim of this book is to present a systematic and comprehensive treatment of robust control of time-delay systems in the frequency domain? The text is well-written, easy to read and with many examples clarify the theoretical discussions. The book is self-contained and it is useful both for new-comers to the field and for researches and mathematicians who work in the area of control and time-delay systems.
Zentralblatt MATH 1119 (2007) (Reviewer: Mihail Megan)
