APPLICATIONS OF  NONLINEAR CONTROL

APPLICATIONS OF NONLINEAR CONTROL Edited by Meral Altınay Applications of Nonlinear Control Edited by Meral Altınay Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. As for readers, this license allows users to download, copy and build upon published chapters even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Anja Filipovic Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published June, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Applications of Nonlinear Control, Edited by Meral Altınay p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0656-2 Contents Preface IX Chapter 1 Application of Input-Output Linearization 1 Erdal Şehirli and Meral Altinay Chapter 2 Lyapunov-Based Robust and Nonlinear Control for Two-Stage Power Factor Correction Converter 21 Seigo Sasaki Chapter 3 Nonlinear Control Applied to the Rheology of Drops in Elongational Flows with Vorticity 37 Israel Y. Rosas, Marco A. H. Reyes, A. A. Minzoni and E. Geffroy Chapter 4 Robust Control Research of Chaos Phenomenon for Diesel-Generator Set on Parallel Connection 57 Man-lei Huang Chapter 5 Chapter 6 A Robust State Feedback Adaptive Controller with Improved Transient Tracking Error Bounds for Plants with Unknown Varying Control Gain 79 A. Rincon, F. Angulo and G. Osorio A Robust Motion Tracking Control of Piezo-Positioning Mechanism with Hysteresis Estimation 99 Amir Farrokh Payam, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah and Morteza Fathipour Chapter 7 Nonlinear Observer-Based Control Allocation 115 Fang Liao, Jian Liang Wang and Kai-Yew Lum Chapter 8 Predictive Function Control of the Single-Link Manipulator with Flexible Joint 129 Zhihuan Zhang and Chao Hu ... - tailieumienphi.vn