Ebook: Topics in Control and its Applications: A Tribute to Edward J. Davison

Prof. Edward J. Davison (Ted) is a man of many talents. He started his career in music, veered into engineering physics for his undergraduate degree and moved to applied mathematics for his MASc degree; although accepted to do a PhD in cosmology, he ended up doing a PhD at Cambridge University in the area of systems control under the direction of the renowned Prof. Howard Rosenbrock. This breadth ofability underscores his ensuing thirty-five years of work in systems control, which spans the very applied to the highly theoretical. Equally important, he is arguably one of the most enthusiastic proponents of the area - he argued in the 1997 Bode Lecture that, unlike popular opinion, theory is lagging practise, with many exciting areas of science and engineering requiring input from the systems control area. Ted's contributions to systems control are many. His first journal paper was on the area of model reduction, which became a "citation classic". He is commonly regarded to have introduced the word "robust" to the area, and has published extensively in the area of robust control, ranging from his 1976 paper on the robust servomechanism problem to the more recent paper on computing the real stability radius. He was in on the ground floor ofthe control of large scale systems, introducing such fundamental notions as decentralized fixed modes, and posing and solving the decentralized robust servomechanism problem. He has made contributions to determining fundamental benefits and limitations of adaptive control.

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This book comprises the proceedings of the Recent Developments in Control Theory and Applications workshop held in Toronto, Canada, 29th-30th June 1998 in honor of the 60th birthday of E.J. Davison. While the scope of the workshop was quite broad, the main theme was robust control, decentralized control and applications.
Some topics include:
- robust control for car steering
- flow control for networks
- fault diagnosis in discrete event systems.
With contributions from distinguished authors of international repute, the material presented here focuses upon new findings in the field of control including interesting applications. As well as being informative, it is a useful tool for practitioners of systems and control to ascertain new developments in the field.

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This book comprises the proceedings of the Recent Developments in Control Theory and Applications workshop held in Toronto, Canada, 29th-30th June 1998 in honor of the 60th birthday of E.J. Davison. While the scope of the workshop was quite broad, the main theme was robust control, decentralized control and applications.
Some topics include:
- robust control for car steering
- flow control for networks
- fault diagnosis in discrete event systems.
With contributions from distinguished authors of international repute, the material presented here focuses upon new findings in the field of control including interesting applications. As well as being informative, it is a useful tool for practitioners of systems and control to ascertain new developments in the field.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Robust Control for Car Steering....Pages 1-15
Radial and Uniform Distributions in Vector and Matrix Spaces for Probabilistic Robustness....Pages 17-31
Decentralized Reliable Control for Large-Scale Systems....Pages 33-65
A Novel Approach to Vibration Reduction in Flexible Belt Drives....Pages 67-80
Fault Diagnosis in Finite-State Automata and Timed Discrete-Event Systems....Pages 81-105
On The Stability of Control Systems Having Clegg Integrators....Pages 107-115
Constructive Solutions to a Decentralized Team Problem with Application in Flow Control for Networks....Pages 117-141
Solution of a Wavelet Crime....Pages 143-156
Interior and Non-Interior Point Algorithms for Nonlinear Programming....Pages 157-170
Decentralized Control of Uncertain Systems via Sensitivity Models....Pages 171-187
Dynamic Modeling of Airborne Gas Turbine Engines....Pages 189-205
Properties of Linear Discrete-Time System in Terms of Its Singular Value Decomposition....Pages 207-212

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This book comprises the proceedings of the Recent Developments in Control Theory and Applications workshop held in Toronto, Canada, 29th-30th June 1998 in honor of the 60th birthday of E.J. Davison. While the scope of the workshop was quite broad, the main theme was robust control, decentralized control and applications.
Some topics include:
- robust control for car steering
- flow control for networks
- fault diagnosis in discrete event systems.
With contributions from distinguished authors of international repute, the material presented here focuses upon new findings in the field of control including interesting applications. As well as being informative, it is a useful tool for practitioners of systems and control to ascertain new developments in the field.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-X
Robust Control for Car Steering....Pages 1-15
Radial and Uniform Distributions in Vector and Matrix Spaces for Probabilistic Robustness....Pages 17-31
Decentralized Reliable Control for Large-Scale Systems....Pages 33-65
A Novel Approach to Vibration Reduction in Flexible Belt Drives....Pages 67-80
Fault Diagnosis in Finite-State Automata and Timed Discrete-Event Systems....Pages 81-105
On The Stability of Control Systems Having Clegg Integrators....Pages 107-115
Constructive Solutions to a Decentralized Team Problem with Application in Flow Control for Networks....Pages 117-141
Solution of a Wavelet Crime....Pages 143-156
Interior and Non-Interior Point Algorithms for Nonlinear Programming....Pages 157-170
Decentralized Control of Uncertain Systems via Sensitivity Models....Pages 171-187
Dynamic Modeling of Airborne Gas Turbine Engines....Pages 189-205
Properties of Linear Discrete-Time System in Terms of Its Singular Value Decomposition....Pages 207-212
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