Design and validation of linear robust controllers for nonlinear plants

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 803-816

  Banos A ^a   Bailey, F N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Linearization; Nonlinear control; QFT; Robust control

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; FEEDBACK; INVARIANCE; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; LINEARIZATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

LINEAR TIME INVARIANT (LTI) PLANTS; QUANTITATIVE FEEDBACK THEORY (QFT);

NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032115885     PISSN: 10498923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1239(19980730)8:9<803::AID-RNC347>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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