This textbook reimagines control systems instruction by integrating theoretical precision with practical understanding through carefully crafted real-world analogies, extensive worked examples, and hands-on reinforcement. It offers a transformative approach to control systems education that unites mathematical rigor with intuitive clarity.Control Systems Engineering: Principles and Practice stands out for its innovative approach and practical focus. It offers intuitive explanations...

This book introduces several observer-based methods, including:• the sliding-mode observer• the adaptive observer• the unknown-input observer and• the descriptor observer methodfor the problem of fault detection, isolation and estimation, allowing readers to compare and contrast the different approaches. The authors present basic material on Lyapunov stability theory, H¥ control theory, sliding-mode control theory and linear matrix inequality problem...

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the concepts, modeling, technical and technological details and practical applications of different types of sensors, and discusses the trends of next generation of sensors and systems for environmental and food engineering. This book is aimed at researchers, graduate students, academics and industry professionals working in the field of environmental and food engineering, environmental monitoring, precision agriculture and food quality control.

Sensors were developed to detect and quantify structures and functions of human body as well as to gather information from the environment in order to optimize the efficiency, cost-effectiveness and quality of healthcare services as well as to improve health and quality of life. This book offers an up-to-date overview of the concepts, modeling, technical and technological details and practical applications of different types of sensors. It also discusses the trends for the next generation ...