This book provides a unified, practically-oriented treatment to many
constrained control paradigms. Recently proposed control strategies are
unified in a generalised framework to deal with different kinds of
constraints. The book's solutions are based on reference conditioning
ideas implemented by means of supervisory loops, and they are
complementary to any other control technique used for the main control
loop. Although design simplicity is a book priority, the use of well
established sliding mode concepts for theoretical analysis make it also
rigorous and self-contained.
The first part of the book focuses on providing a simple description of
the method to deal with system constraints in SISO systems. It also
illustrates the design and implementation of the developed techniques
through several case studies. The second part is devoted to
multivariable constrained control problems: improving system decoupling
under different plant or controller constraints, and reducing the
undesired effects caused by manual-automatic or controller switching.
The key aim of this book is to reduce the gap between the available
constrained control literature and industrial applications.