- Email: [email protected]
Automation control and complexity an integrated approach
Book reviews / Control Engineering Practice 10 (2002) 1037–1040
As an overall conclusion I think this textbook can definitely be used as a main reference for a class about model predictive control, but competition from the book of Maciejowski (2002) may be expected.
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Kinnaert, M. (1989). Adaptive generalized predictive controller for MIMO systems. International Journal of Control, 50(1), 161–172. Maciejowski, J. M. (2002). Predictive control with constraints. Harlow, UK: Prentice-Hall, Pearson Education Limited.
References Bitmead, R. R., Gevers, M., & Wertz, V. (1990). Adaptive optimal control. The thinking man\’sGPC. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Camacho, E. F., & Bordons, C. (1995). Model predictive control in the process industry. London: Springer.
J.J. van den Boom Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5031, NL-2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
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Mechatronics and the design of intelligent machines and systems D. Bradley, D. Seward, D. Dawson and S. Binje; Stanley Thornes Publishing, November 2000, price d27.50, ISBN 0748754431 This book introduces the topic well and leaves the reader inspired to investigate the topic further. A general introduction to what is mechatronics, is followed by chapters which enable the reader to build a checklist of what is required for efficient system design. Chapters on artificial intelligence are quickly followed by intelligent control methods in fussy logic and ANNs. The chapters are detailed enough to get an understanding and rules for implementing the methods allow the readers to develop their own solutions. More details of software approaches would be useful though. The chapter on software would require supplementary texts to enable good design. The chapter on safety is a useful addition
in any mechatronics book, and can be often forgotten. The approach provides the practitioner with useful ground rules and sources for detailed analysis. There are some small mistakes in some diagrams, although this may be due to their source being from recent research projects. The chapter on manufacturing enables the designer to take account of the problems caused by bad design when it is taken into production. System examples allow the readers knowledge to be tested, and range from MEMs to high-speed trains. The book is a useful undergraduate text and can also help the systems developer to ensure that features are given due attention.
Gordon Dodds Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK E-mail address: [email protected]
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Automation control and complexity an integrated approach Tariq Samad and John Weynesuch; ISBN 047181654X
Within each chapter, confidence in the methods described is built up through suitable examples. A good example is Chapter 10 which examines agents for complex control systems. The latest scientific results and discoveries are cited, the contents of this book are exciting. An example is Chapter 14 of Part 4 National Infrastructures as
Complex Interactive Networks, which quotes materials from EPRI2000. This book can be easily read by the majority of people. It can be recommended in two aspects: firstly, the writing style for the different themes is consistent. All of the authors are good at employing figures, tables. And secondly, no complicated mathematical algorithms are necessary here to express their viewpoints, from the start to the end of the book. This book is appropriate for the practical engineering world or students and teachers in universities as an introductory reading book. It is not possibly proper to
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use it as a course-text textbooks. This is because the contents of the book are too diverse for students to get to know in the limited time duration of a single course. As a reader from a non-English speaking country of this book, I do not think it has used jargon or the ambiguous words. Chapters in each part in the book are written well, clear and consistently. References are given in detail, and are convenient for readers to explore more for their interest. The affiliaPII: S 0 9 6 7 - 0 6 6 1 ( 0 2 ) 0 0 0 6 5 - 5
tions and addresses of contributors supplied by this book not only convince us of its descriptions, but also push us to read more of the covered topics. Song Yunzhong Department of Electrical Engineering, Jiaozuo Institute of Technology, Jiaozuo 454000, People’s Republic of China E-mail: [email protected]
As an overall conclusion I think this textbook can definitely be used as a main reference for a class about model predictive control, but competition from the book of Maciejowski (2002) may be expected.
1039
Kinnaert, M. (1989). Adaptive generalized predictive controller for MIMO systems. International Journal of Control, 50(1), 161–172. Maciejowski, J. M. (2002). Predictive control with constraints. Harlow, UK: Prentice-Hall, Pearson Education Limited.
References Bitmead, R. R., Gevers, M., & Wertz, V. (1990). Adaptive optimal control. The thinking man\’sGPC. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Camacho, E. F., & Bordons, C. (1995). Model predictive control in the process industry. London: Springer.
J.J. van den Boom Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5031, NL-2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
PII: S 0 9 6 7 - 0 6 6 1 ( 0 2 ) 0 0 0 6 1 - 8
Mechatronics and the design of intelligent machines and systems D. Bradley, D. Seward, D. Dawson and S. Binje; Stanley Thornes Publishing, November 2000, price d27.50, ISBN 0748754431 This book introduces the topic well and leaves the reader inspired to investigate the topic further. A general introduction to what is mechatronics, is followed by chapters which enable the reader to build a checklist of what is required for efficient system design. Chapters on artificial intelligence are quickly followed by intelligent control methods in fussy logic and ANNs. The chapters are detailed enough to get an understanding and rules for implementing the methods allow the readers to develop their own solutions. More details of software approaches would be useful though. The chapter on software would require supplementary texts to enable good design. The chapter on safety is a useful addition
in any mechatronics book, and can be often forgotten. The approach provides the practitioner with useful ground rules and sources for detailed analysis. There are some small mistakes in some diagrams, although this may be due to their source being from recent research projects. The chapter on manufacturing enables the designer to take account of the problems caused by bad design when it is taken into production. System examples allow the readers knowledge to be tested, and range from MEMs to high-speed trains. The book is a useful undergraduate text and can also help the systems developer to ensure that features are given due attention.
Gordon Dodds Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK E-mail address: [email protected]
PII: S 0 9 6 7 - 0 6 6 1 ( 0 2 ) 0 0 0 6 6 - 7
Automation control and complexity an integrated approach Tariq Samad and John Weynesuch; ISBN 047181654X
Within each chapter, confidence in the methods described is built up through suitable examples. A good example is Chapter 10 which examines agents for complex control systems. The latest scientific results and discoveries are cited, the contents of this book are exciting. An example is Chapter 14 of Part 4 National Infrastructures as
Complex Interactive Networks, which quotes materials from EPRI2000. This book can be easily read by the majority of people. It can be recommended in two aspects: firstly, the writing style for the different themes is consistent. All of the authors are good at employing figures, tables. And secondly, no complicated mathematical algorithms are necessary here to express their viewpoints, from the start to the end of the book. This book is appropriate for the practical engineering world or students and teachers in universities as an introductory reading book. It is not possibly proper to
1040
Book reviews / Control Engineering Practice 10 (2002) 1037–1040
use it as a course-text textbooks. This is because the contents of the book are too diverse for students to get to know in the limited time duration of a single course. As a reader from a non-English speaking country of this book, I do not think it has used jargon or the ambiguous words. Chapters in each part in the book are written well, clear and consistently. References are given in detail, and are convenient for readers to explore more for their interest. The affiliaPII: S 0 9 6 7 - 0 6 6 1 ( 0 2 ) 0 0 0 6 5 - 5
tions and addresses of contributors supplied by this book not only convince us of its descriptions, but also push us to read more of the covered topics. Song Yunzhong Department of Electrical Engineering, Jiaozuo Institute of Technology, Jiaozuo 454000, People’s Republic of China E-mail: [email protected]