E-book: Decentralized Control and Filtering in Interconnected Dynamical Systems

"Based on the many approaches available for dealing with large-scale systems (LSS), this book provides a rigorous framework for studying the analysis, stability, and control problems of LSS while addressing the dominating sources of difficulties due to dimensionality, information structure constraints, uncertainties, and time delays. The author reviews past methods and results from a contemporary perspective, examines current trends and approaches, and offers future improvements to approaches. Providing an overall assessment of current LSS theories, he presents key concepts supported by proofs as well as efficient computational methods"--

Of the several approaches to the understanding of large scale systems that have been developed over the past few decades, Mahmoud (systems engineering, King Fahd U. of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia) explains one that emphasizes the role of interconnections in wide classes of dynamical systems. He discusses the mathematical foundations, historical perspective and scope, a decentralized servo-mechanism system, overlapping control, interconnected time-delay systems, decentralized reliable control, decentralized resilient control, decentralized sliding-mode control, and decentralized filtering. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Based on the many approaches available for dealing with large-scale systems (LSS), Decentralized Control and Filtering in Interconnected Dynamical Systems supplies a rigorous framework for studying the analysis, stability, and control problems of LSS. Providing an overall assessment of LSS theories, it addresses model order reduction, parametric uncertainties, time delays, and control estimator gain perturbations.

Taking readers on a guided tour through LSS, the book examines recent trends and approaches and reviews past methods and results from a contemporary perspective. It traces the progress of research along three eras:

1. Fundamental era in which the basic conceptual frameworks, major ideas, and operational methodologies are laid down
2. Contemporary era in which several of the workable methods and techniques are established and applied to many application areas
3. Advanced era in which different high-level schemes and configurations are being developed to meet accelerated technological advancements

Focusing on robust, reliable, and/or resilient decentralized design methods based on linear matrix inequalities framework, the author offers suggestions for improvements to current approaches. He addresses the dominating sources of difficulties due to dimensionality, information structure constraints, uncertainties, and time delays. Drawing attention to key issues, the text is supported by proofs, efficient computational methods, end-of-chapter problems, and approximately 1,300 equations.