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evident when we review the gap between the theoretical studies and the
applications of these developed approaches.
The book presents some recent research results for the modeling and
control designs of uncertain systems with non-smooth dynamics, such as
friction, dead-zone, saturation, and hysteresis, etc., with particular appli-
cations in servo systems. The major emphasis is on the uncertain systems
with four kinds of non-smooth non-linearities (e.g., friction, dead-zone,
hysteresis, and saturation), and other unknown time-varying dynamics. The
book consists of 19 chapters, which are distributed in five parts concerning
with four types of non-smooth characteristics, namely friction, dead-zone,
saturation, and hysteresis, respectively. After briefly presenting the motiva-
tion, objective, and preview of chapters in Part 1, Part 2 is concerned with
the modeling and control for uncertain systems with friction from Chap-
ters 1 to 6.Chapters 7 to 11 address the modeling and control for system
with dead-zone input in Part 3. Part 4 includes Chapters 12 to 15,which
are devoted to the control design and synthesis of systems with input sat-
uration, while Part 5 with Chapters 16 to 19 addresses the modeling and
control for systems with hysteresis. It will be shown how these non-smooth
dynamics can be modeled and adaptively compensated so as to achieve
desired control performance. Each of these non-smooth non-linearities is
considered individually and systematically. Both the theoretical studies and
practical applications are presented in this book.
The book aims to present some recent research results on adaptive mod-
eling and control system design for non-linear uncertain systems, and show-
case their application in servo systems with non-smooth non-linearities.
This book can help both researchers and practitioners to learn and un-
derstand non-linear adaptive control designs. Academia, engineers, and
graduate students in the fields of electrical engineering, control system,
mechanical engineering, applied mathematics, and computer science can
benefit from the book. It can be also used as a reference book on adaptive
control for servo systems for students with some background in control
engineering.
Jing Na
Kunming University of Science and Technology
Qiang Chen
Zhejiang University of Technology
Xuemei Ren
Beijing Institute of Technology
17 January 2018