Glattfelder A.H., Schaufelberger W. Control Systems with Input and Output Constraints

Springer, 2003. — 511 p.The authors emphasize that they have taken an engineering approach instead of a mathematical approach in the book. This is true and it makes the book interesting not only for researchers in the field, but also for students that should learn about the problems and the solutions. To facilitate these studies, there is a website associated with the book where the MatLAB/Simulink programs used in the examples are available.
The book is also a valuable reference for engineers faced with implementation problems. The number of such engineers is large, and the number of control loops implemented poorly with respect to saturations and override control is large and increasing. Several of the dominating suppliers of instrument systems for process control deliver products where the anti-windup and override control works well for the simple feedback loop, but where the problems are unsolved, or solved in an erroneous way, when it comes to more complicated controller structures involving e.g. cascade couplings, feed-forward, and selectors. There is a need to improve the knowledge about these problems, and this book is one step on the way to achieve this.
Professor Glattfelder and Professor Schaufelberger have been the leading experts in the area of control with constraints for a long time. They have now summarized their experience in the present book, and they have succeeded in their intention to produce the first reference in the area that will be available for a broad audience. I think that this book will be a standard reference for a long time.Part I Standard Techniques
PI Control with Input Saturations
PI Control with Output Constraints
PI Control with Input and Output Constraints
Further Topics on PI(aw) Control
Part II Advanced Techniques
Generalized Antiwindup
Generalized Override Control
Multivariable Control with ConstraintsA: Nonlinear Stability Tests