Robustness is often of crucial importance in control system design. This book helps readers learn how to use well-developed advanced robust control design methods in practical cases. Several realistic control design examples ranging from teaching-laboratory experiments to complex systems are given detailed presentation. The hands-on, tutorial presentation gives readers the opportunity to repeat the designs presented and modify them for their own programs.

Da-Wei Gu has held lecturing positions at Shanhai Jiao Tong and Oxford Universities and is now a Reader in Leicester. He has been involved in many industrial projects, mainly in the aerospace and manufacturing sectors. He is the co-author of Perturbation Theory for Matrix Equations (North-Holland/Elsevier) 0-444-51315-9 in addition to his over 120 refereed journal and conference papers. Doctor Gu received a prestigious JSPS fellowship from the Japanese Government in 1997. He is a founder member of NICONET, the EU network for reliable software for control engineering. Doctor Gu is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the IEE.

Shows readers how to exploit the capabilities of the MATLAB^® Robust Control and Control Systems Toolboxes to the fullest using practical robust control examples.

Basic Methods and Theory.- Modelling of Uncertain Systems.- Robust Design Specifications.- ??Design.- ??Loop-shaping Design Procedures.- ?-Analysis and Synthesis.- Lower-order Controllers.- Design Examples.- Robust Control of a Mass-Damper-Spring System.- A Triple Inverted Pendulum Control-system Design.- Robust Control of a Hard Disk Drive.- Robust Control of a Distillation Column.- Robust Control of a Rocket.- Robust Control of a Flexible-Link Manipulator.