Skip to main content
Book cover

Switched Finite Time Control of a Class of Underactuated Systems

  • Book
  • © 2006

Overview

  • Presents a switched finite time control philosophy to stabilize a class of underactuated systems

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (LNCIS, volume 333)

  • 4667 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (7 chapters)

Keywords

About this book

The control of mechanical systems with constraints has been a topic of intense research in the control and dynamical systems community for the past two decades. In particular, systems with velocity and/or acceleration level constraints which appear in many applications like - robotics, spacecrafts, launch vehicles, underwater vehicles - have been studied intensively. This monograph is a self-contained exposition on a switched, finite-time, control strategy for this class of systems. Beginning with basic definitions and mathematical preliminaries, the monograph works its way up to the main control algorithm. Three well-studied applications are chosen to demonstrate the algorithm. Other facets of the algorithm and an alternate algorithm are also briefly touched upon.

The monograph is intended for graduate students and researchers in the area of nonlinear control and dynamical systems.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"This is a monograph focusing on the control of a class of undergraduate mechanical systems … which are not linearly controllable. … The book is recommended to researchers, doctoral students and application engineers interested in the automatic control of underactuated mechanical systems." (Octavian Pastravanu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1121 (23), 2007)

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us