A unified approach to stability robustness for uncertainty descriptions based on fractional model representations

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 723-727

  De Callafon, Raymond A ^a   Van Den Hof, Paul M J ^a   Bongers, Peter M M ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH VLAARDINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; FEEDBACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SET THEORY; SYSTEM STABILITY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

FRACTIONAL MODEL REPRESENTATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 0030150523     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/9.489211     Document Type: Article

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