Periodic control has reached a notable degree of maturity thanks to developments over the last few decades. We have seen not only major theoretical achievements but also new significant applications.

The IFAC workshop on "Periodic Control Systems" (PSYCO 2001), held at the Villa Erba Congress Centre in Cernobbio-Como (Italy), August 27-28 2001, aimed at presenting the full picture of the area by gathering experts in the field and all interested researchers, coming from universities, research institutions and industries.

The program consisted of technical sessions, organized in two parallel streams and two plenary lectures, given by Jason L. Speyer (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) and Yutaka Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan). The technical sessions included 42 papers covering the following subjects:

Periodic Systems Analysis
Application
Time-Series
Hybrid and Sampled-Data
Aerospace Applications
Periodic Systems Control
Numerical Methods
Multirate and Batch Processes
Repetitive and Nonlinear Control

A dozen of the papers were devoted to a number of applications, including aerospace, jet and diesel engines, gas turbines, nuclear reactors, power systems, satellites, environmental sciences and finance.
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At the beginning of the new millennium the PID controller continues to be a key component of industrial control. During this century many different structures of control have been proposed to overcome the limitation of the PID controllers. Because of their simplicity and usefulness, they give a very useful solution to an important part of the industrial processes.

The present-day structure of PID controllers is quite different from the original analog PID controllers. Now the implementation of the PID is based on digital design, these digital PIDs include many algorithms such as anti-wind-up, auto-tuning, adaptive, and fuzzy fine tuning to improve their performances, but the basic actions remain the same.

During the last two decades, the general reluctance of researchers to use PID controllers has begun to disappear. Many of the new capabilities of digital PID controllers have been introduced by the research community. The industrial control users apply these innovations easily, even enthusiastically. PID control has become one of the most important ways for the scientific specialist in control and the users of industrial control to work together.

This workshop was organized so that the scientific world and the industrial control world could meet and discuss the present and future use of PID controllers - the successes and failures of their use and how to determine the limits of performances. This workshop was also useful for learning about control history, since the origin and evolution of PID control can provide us with keys for new development and designs.

Through the theories, strategies, and broad range of case studies in Taguchi Methods for Robust Design, you gain exposure to the entire spectrum of robust design, and master its application. You also learn to prevent quality problems in the early stages of product development/design, to use the dynamic signal-to-noise (SN) ratio as the performance index for robustness of production functions, and to evaluate methods of data collection and analyze case studies of parameter design. Contents include: Types of SN ratios Basic dynamic-type SN ratios for continuous variables Various cases Non-dynamic SN ratios Classified attributes SN ratio with complex numbers Layout and analysis of Youden Square Incomplete data Robust technology department Case studies.

Electrical Engineering/Power and Energy Engineering Power Electronic Converter Harmonics Multipulse Methods for Clean Power "An excellent treatment of the subject." --Allan Ludbrook, Ludbrook & Associates "Pulls all the material together and presents it from the viewpoint of a long-time practitioner in the field ... will be much appreciated by designers, the utilities, and users." --Thomas Barton, University of Calgary Stay on the cutting edge of applied power electronics for energy-saving systems with this invaluable guide to multipulse converters, power sources, and the IEEE Industry Standard 519. One of the foremost experts in the field and holder of 28 patents, Derek A. Paice brings you new circuit schematics and easy-to-follow methods for practical system analysis, using actual field test results. This book offers thorough coverage of:

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Although industrial processes are inherently nonlinear, many contributions for controller design for those plants are based on the assumption of a linear model of the system. However, in some cases it is difficult to represent a given process using a linear model. Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an optimal control approach which can effectively deal with constraints and multivariable processes in industries. Because of its advantages, MPC has been widely applied in automotive and process control communities. This book discusses the theory, practices and future challenges of model predictive control.

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