Synopses & Reviews
This book is a collection of contributions by eminent scientists written in honour of Professor Brian Anderson's 60th birthday. Brian Anderson is arguably one of the most prominent researchers in the world in the area of control. The contributors of this volume were selected by Brian Anderson. They all have outstanding international reputations. The book, therefore, makes a valuable statement about the current status of control engineering with particular reference to contemporary work that has a link to Anderson's research contributions.
Synopsis
This book is based on a workshop entitled.: Model " Identification and Adap tive Control: From Windsurfing to Telecommunications" held in Sydney, Aus tralia, on December 16, 2000. The workshop was organized in honour of Pro fessor Brian (BDO) Anderson in recognition of his seminal contributions to systems science over the past 4 decades. . The chapters in the book have been written by colleagues, friends and stu dents of Brian Anderson. A central theme of the book is the inter relationship between identification and the use of models in real world applications. This theme has underpinned much of Brian Anderson's own contributions. The book reflects on these contributions as well as makirig important statements about possible future research directions. The subtitle of the book (From Windsurfing to Telecommunications) rec ognizes the fact that many common life experiences, such as those we en counter when learning to ride a windsurfer are models for design methods that can be used on real world advanced technological control problems. In deed, Brian Anderson extensively explored this link in his research work."
Table of Contents
Part 1. General Aspects of Model Identfication: System Identification- General Aspects and Structure. Singularity Issues Associated with Closed Loop Identification. Mapping Parametric Confidence Ellipsoids to Nyquist Plane for Linearly Parametrized Transfer Functions.- Part 2. Interactions between Model Identification and Intended Model Use: On the use of real data for Controller Reduction. Making a Nonlinear Observer Adaptive. Sensor Adaptive Target Tracking over variable bandwidth networks.- Part 3. Illustrative Applications of Identification and Control: Adaptive Servo Control of Large Antenna Structures. Quantiser Optimisation: Application of Passivity in Telecommunications. Connecting Steiglitz-McBride Identification, Active Noise Control, and Co-efficient Filtering to a common framework.- Part 4. Fundamental Design Issues in Adaptive Control: Iterative Adaptive Control: Windsurfing with Confidence. Model Quality for the Windsurfer Scheme of Adaptive Control. Cheap Control Fundamental Limitations: The Linear Time-varying Case.