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This compact monograph is focused on disturbance attenuation in nonsmooth dynamic systems, developing an H approach in the nonsmooth setting. Similar to the standard nonlinear H approach, the proposed nonsmooth design guarantees both the internal asymptotic stability of a nominal closed-loop system and the dissipativity inequality, which states that the size of an error signal is uniformly bounded with respect to the worst-case size of an external disturbance signal. This guarantee is achieved by constructing an energy or storage function that satisfies the dissipativity inequality and is then utilized as a Lyapunov function to ensure the internal stability requirements.

Advanced H Control is unique in the literature for its treatment of disturbance attenuation in nonsmooth systems. It synthesizes various tools, including Hamilton-Jacobi-Isaacs partial differential inequalities as well as Linear Matrix Inequalities. Along with the finite-dimensional treatment, the synthesis is extended to infinite-dimensional setting, involving time-delay and distributed parameter systems. To help illustrate this synthesis, the book focuses on electromechanical applications with nonsmooth phenomena caused by dry friction, backlash, and sampled-data measurements. Special attention is devoted to implementation issues.

Requiring familiarity with nonlinear systems theory, this book will be accessible to g

raduate students interested in systems analysis and design, and is a welcome addition to the literature for researchers and practitioners in these areas.

Advanced H Control: Towards Nonsmooth Theory and Applications

Part I Introduction.- 1 Linear H1 control of autonomous systems.- 2 LMI approach in infinite dimensional setting.- 3 Linear H1 control of time-varying systems.- 4 Nonlinear H1 control.- Part II Nonsmooth H1 Control.- 5 Elements of nonsmooth analysis.- 6 Synthesis of nonsmooth systems.- 7 LMI-based H1 boundary control of nonsmooth parabolic and hyperbolic systems.- Part III Benchmark Applications.- 8 Advanced H1 synthesis of fully actuated robot manipulators with frictional joints.- 9 Nonsmooth H1 synthesis in the presence of backlash.- 10 H1 generation of periodic motion.- 11 LMI-based H1 synthesis of the current profile in tokamak plasmas.- References.- Index.