Overview
- Shows readers a variety of case studies for how to apply advanced ideas from control theory to specific real problems
- Demonstrates how theoretical ideas can be brought to bear under real-world constraints and requirements
- Extrapolation from practical results to theoretical systems will motivate researchers to address more real-life problems
Part of the book series: Advances in Industrial Control (AIC)
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About this book
Case Studies in Control presents a framework to facilitate the use of advanced control concepts in real systems based on two decades of research and over 150 successful applications for industrial end-users from various backgrounds. In successive parts the text approaches the problem of putting the theory to work from both ends, theoretical and practical. The first part begins with a stress on solid control theory and the shaping of that theory to solve particular instances of practical problems. It emphasizes the need to establish by experiment whether a model-derived solution will perform properly in reality. The second part focuses on real industrial applications based on the needs and requirements of end-users. Here, the engineering approach is dominant but with theoretical input of varying degree depending on the particular process involved.
Following the illustrations of the progress that can be made from either extreme of the well-known theory–practice divide, the text proceeds to a third part related to the development of tools that enable simpler use of advanced methods, a need only partially met by available commercial products.
Each case study represents a self-contained unit that shows an experimental application of a particular method, a practical solution to an industrial problem or a toolkit that makes control design and implementation easier or more efficient. Among the applications presented are:
- wastewater treatment;
- manufacturing of electrical motors ;
- temperature control of blow moulding;
- burn-protective garments quality assessment; and rapid prototyping.
Written by contributors with a considerable record of industrially-applied research, Case Studies in Control will encourage interaction between industrial practitioners and academic researchers and be of benefit to both, helping to make theory realistic and practical implementation more thorough and efficacious.
Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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From Theory Towards Practice
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From Practice Towards Theory
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Tools and Building Blocks for Control Systems Implementation
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Đani Juričić is a research fellow at the Jožef Stefan Institute and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Nova Gorica. For almost 30 years he has been active in applied research in automatic control through numerous research grants and projects for industry, in the majority of which he acted as project leader. His research interests include condition monitoring, fault detection, isolation and prediction, the mathematical modelling of dynamical processes, signal processing, system identification, PID and optimal controller design. He has contributed to the CACSDtool ANA, algorithms for the control design of systems with backlash, the control of Wiener systems, PID tuning, modelling for the purpose of control, validation of data-driven models, algorithms for robust control and fault detection, and novel fault-localisation approaches based on approximate reasoning. His notable industrial accomplishments include algorithms for the on-line, model-based control of a pulp cooking process, condition monitoring systems for several processes in the chemical and process industries, a prototype of a system for fault detection and isolation in the production of electrical motors and a system for the on-line supervision of rotational machines and drives.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Case Studies in Control
Book Subtitle: Putting Theory to Work
Editors: Stanko Strmčnik, Đani Juričić
Series Title: Advances in Industrial Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5176-0
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5175-3Published: 01 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5924-7Published: 16 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-5176-0Published: 12 June 2013
Series ISSN: 1430-9491
Series E-ISSN: 2193-1577
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 411
Number of Illustrations: 112 b/w illustrations, 112 illustrations in colour
Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Industrial and Production Engineering, Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Waste Management/Waste Technology