Advanced Techniques and Technology of Computer-Aided Feedback Control
Jean Mbihi
First published 2018 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018937753
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ISBN 978-1-78630-249-6
Preface
This book presents an in-depth study of advanced design techniques and modern technology for the implementation of computer-aided feedback control systems for deterministic and stochastic dynamic processes.
It is addressed to stakeholders (students, teachers and researchers) in engineering schools, teacher training schools for technical education, PhD schools and applied science research centers.
This book will provide readers with:
– techniques for building canonical discrete state models of dynamic processes, as well as methods for the design of discrete state feedback digital controllers;
– a detailed case study of the creation and effective implementation of a new computer-aided multimedia test bench for servomechanisms, based on virtual toolboxes of PIDF (proportional, integral and derivative with filter) controllers, state feedback controllers (with or without observer) and virtual instruments;
– detailed algorithmic schemes of deterministic or stochastic optimal control, with finite or infinite optimization time;
– secrets of the creation and prototyping of a new remote virtual Matlab®/GUI platform, the rapid design of systems for deterministic and stochastic optimal control;
– infrastructural topologies of real-time remote feedback control systems;
– a detailed case study of the creation and effective implementation of a new remotely operated automation laboratory (REOPAULAB) via the Internet;
– Matlab programs for teaching purposes, allowing the replication, if needed, of the numerical and graphic results presented in this book;
– corrected exercises at the end of each chapter, aimed at consolidating the acquired technical knowledge.
The content of this book is the outcome of the experiences gathered by the author throughout the last 15 years with ENSET (École Normale Supérieure d’Enseignement Technique) and UFD (Unité de Formation Doctorale) in Engineering Sciences at the University of Douala, which involved multiple activities:
– lectures on “deterministic and stochastic optimal control” and “Matlab-aided advanced programming”;
– scientific research of new flexible teaching platforms;
– support for the development of computer-aided control technology in modern automated process engineering.
The author wishes to commend the state of Cameroon for the scientific research grant awarded via the Ministry of Higher Education, which allowed him to cover a part of the costs involved for preparing and editing this book.
The author wishes to sincerely thank:
– Prof. Womonou Robert, director and promoter of ESSET at the University of Douala and Nkongsamba, for his motivational support in completing this book.
– Prof. Nneme Nneme Léandre, director of ENSET at the University of Douala, who participated in the study of the remotely operated automation laboratory, which is presented in Chapter 8.
– Pauné Félix, PhD lecturer in the Computer Science Engineering department of ENSET at the University of Douala, who is the main author and the system administrator of the above-mentioned remotely operated automation laboratory, a subject that he has studied and implemented in his PhD thesis, conducted under the author’s supervision.
– Lonlac Konlac Karvin Jerry PhD lecturer and head of the department of Computer Science Engineering of ENSET at the University of Douala. While abroad, during his post-doctoral studies at Lens, in France, he was the first remote test operator without online assistance of the above-mentioned remote automation laboratory.
– The ISTE editorial team, for their excellent collaboration throughout all the editing phases of this book.
– His wife, Mrs. Mbihi, born Tsafack Pélagie Marthe, who offered her close assistance, and all those who have substantially contributed to the production of this book.