Description: This book will sell because it outlines a method by which the failure of control systems can be circumvented. The reader will be interested either because it can extend the period of plant operation between costly overhauls or because the effect of a sudden uncompensated failure in control would be dangerous (in an airborne aircraft for example) where the techniques exemplified in this book will keep the control systems effective long enough to be able to wind them down safely (in time to land the aircraft for example).
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The monograph describes adaptive actuator failure compensation control schemes for systems with uncertain actuator failures ... The monograph is a comprehensive and self-contained exposition supposing the knowledge of linear systems and feedback control at the undergraduate level. Graduate students, researchers, and professionals working in the areas of control engineering, computer science, and applied mathematics will appreciate this book as a significant up-to-date technical reference in the field.
Zentralblatt MATH 1063 (2005) (Reviewer: Lubomír Bakule)