Time Delay Systems: Methods, Applications and New Trends
This volume is concerned with the control and dynamics of time delay systems; a research field with at least six-decade long history that has been very active especially in the past two decades. In parallel to the new challenges emerging from engineering,
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Rifat Sipahi, Tomáš Vyhlídal, Silviu-Iulian Niculescu, and Pierdomenico Pepe (Eds.)
Time Delay Systems: Methods, Applications and New Trends
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Series Advisory Board P. Fleming, P. Kokotovic, A.B. Kurzhanski, H. Kwakernaak, A. Rantzer, J.N. Tsitsiklis
Editors Prof. Rifat Sipahi Northeastern University Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Boston, USA
Prof. Silviu-Iulian Niculescu L2S (UMR CNRS 8506) CNRSSupélec Gif-sur-Yvette France
Prof. Tomáš Vyhlídal Czech Technical University Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering Prague, Czech Republic
Prof. Pierdomenico Pepe University of L’Aquila Department of Electrical and Information Engineering L’Aquila, Italy
ISBN 978-3-642-25220-4
e-ISBN 978-3-642-25221-1
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-25221-1 Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
ISSN 0170-8643
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Preface
In many problems in engineering, physics, and biology, various processes take effect only after a certain amount of time elapses after the onset of a stimulus, an input, and any means of cause. This period of time, which is application specific, can arise due to many reasons including, among others, transmitting information across a wireless network in network control systems, shipping products from one location to another in supply chains, producing a decision in car driving upon receiving a stimulus. Due to the presence of delays, instantaneous information cannot be available and therefore many control actions are produced based on the historical evolution of the governing dynamics. This represents a major source of instability, especially in cases when the controllers are designed by neglecting delays. In other words, a controller designed in a conventional way by assuming that the system at hand did not present delays, may not necessarily guarantee the stability of the same system that actually includes delays. Since 1950s, many studies have been devoted to understanding the effects of delays a
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