Quantitative Feedback Theory : Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition

Quantitative Feedback Theory bridges the gap between scientific and engineering methods. This second edition features new chapters on QFT design of non-diagonal compensators and QFT design techniques applied to real world industrial systems. It provides new and expanded information on time delay systems with uncertainty, MIMO QFT control design using weighting matrices and control authority allocation, wastewater treatment, and large wind turbine control systems. It also includes a section on QFT standard symbols and terminology. With PC-CAD software, five new appendices, and an extended reference section, this text is ideal for engineering students and practicing engineers.

The first edition of Quantitative Feedback Theory gained enormous popularity by successfully bridging the gap between theory and real-world engineering practice. Avoiding mathematical theorems, lemmas, proofs, and correlaries, it boiled down to the essential elements of quantitative feedback theory (QFT) necessary to readily analyze, develop, and implement robust control systems. Thoroughly updated and expanded, Quantitative Feedback Theory: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition continues to provide a platform for intelligent decision making and design based on knowledge of the characteristics and operating scenario of the plant.

Beginning with the fundamentals, the authors build a background in analog and discrete-time multiple-input-single-output (MISO) and multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) feedback control systems along with the fundamentals of the QFT technique. The remainder of the book links these concepts to practical applications. Among the many enhancements to this edition are a new section on large wind turbine control system, four new chapters, and five new appendices. The new chapters cover non-diagonal compensator design for MIMO systems, QFT design involving Smith predictors for time delay systems with uncertainty, weighting matrices and control authority, and QFT design techniques applied to real-world industrial systems.

Quantitative Feedback Theory: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition includes new and revised examples and end-of-chapter problems and offers a companion CD that supplies MIMO QFT computer-aided design (CAD) software. It is the perfect guide to effectively and intuitively implementing QFT control.