Advances in Industrial Control
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Optimisation of Industrial Processes
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Robust Control of Diesel Ship Propulsion
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Hydraulic Servo-systems
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Dynamic Modelling of Gas Turbines
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Control of Fuel Cell Power Systems
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Fuzzy Logic, Identification and Predictive
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Jairo Espinosa, Joos Vandewalle and
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Optimal Real-time Control of Sewer
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Magdalene Marinaki and Markos
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Process Modelling for Control
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Computational Intelligence in Time Series
Forecasting
Ajoy K. Palit and Dobrivoje Popovic
Modelling and Control of mini-Flying
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Rudder and Fin Ship Roll Stabilization
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Hard Disk Drive Servo Systems (2nd Ed.)
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Piezoelectric Transducers for Vibration
Control and Damping
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Manufacturing Systems Control Design
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Windup in Control
Peter Hippe
Nonlinear H2/H∞ Constrained Feedback
Control
Murad Abu-Khalaf, Jie Huang and
Frank L. Lewis
Practical Grey-box Process Identification
Torsten Bohlin
Modern Supervisory and Optimal Control
Sandor Markon, Hajime Kita, Hiroshi Kise
and Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
Wind Turbine Control Systems
Fernando D. Bianchi, Hernán De Battista
and Ricardo J. Mantz
Advanced Fuzzy Logic Technologies in
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Ying Bai, Hanqi Zhuang and Dali Wang
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Soft Sensors for Monitoring and Control of
Industrial Processes
Luigi Fortuna, Salvatore Graziani,
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Advanced Control of Industrial Processes
Piotr Tatjewski
Publication due October 2006
Adaptive Voltage Control in Power Systems
Giuseppe Fusco and Mario Russo
Publication due October 2006
Antonio Visioli
Practical PID Control
With 241 Figures
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Antonio Visioli, PhD
Dipartimento di Elettronica per l’Automazione
Università degli Studi di Brescia
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Italy
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Series Editors
Professor Michael J. Grimble, Professor of Industrial Systems and Director
Professor Michael A. Johnson, Professor (Emeritus) of Control Systems
and Deputy Director
Industrial Control Centre
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
University of Strathclyde
Graham Hills Building
50 George Street
Glasgow G1 1QE
United Kingdom
Series Advisory Board
Professor E.F. Camacho
Escuela Superior de Ingenieros
Universidad de Sevilla
Camino de los Descobrimientos s/n
41092 Sevilla
Spain
Professor S. Engell
Lehrstuhl für Anlagensteuerungstechnik
Fachbereich Chemietechnik
Universität Dortmund
44221 Dortmund
Germany
Professor G. Goodwin
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Newcastle
Callaghan
NSW 2308
Australia
Professor T.J. Harris
Department of Chemical Engineering
Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6
Canada
Professor T.H. Lee
Department of Electrical Engineering
National University of Singapore
4 Engineering Drive 3
Singapore 117576
Professor Emeritus O.P. Malik
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Calgary
2500, University Drive, NW
Calgary
Alberta
T2N 1N4
Canada
Professor K.-F. Man
Electronic Engineering Department
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue
Kowloon
Hong Kong
Professor G. Olsson
Department of Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation
Lund Institute of Technology
Box 118
S-221 00 Lund
Sweden
Professor A. Ray
Pennsylvania State University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
0329 Reber Building
University Park
PA 16802
USA
Professor D.E. Seborg
Chemical Engineering
3335 Engineering II
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara
CA 93106
USA
Doctor K.K. Tan
Department of Electrical Engineering
National University of Singapore
4 Engineering Drive 3
Singapore 117576
Professor Ikuo Yamamoto
Kyushu University Graduate School
Marine Technology Research and Development Program
MARITEC, Headquarters, JAMSTEC
2-15 Natsushima Yokosuka
Kanagawa 237-0061
Japan
To Angela and Gianco
Series Editor’s Foreword
The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage tech-
nology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control tech-
nology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new
controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods,
new applications, new philosophies..., new challenges. Much of this develop-
ment work resides in industrial reports, feasibility study papers and the re-
ports of advanced collaborative projects. The series offers an opportunity for
researchers to present an extended exposition of such new work in all aspects
of industrial control for wider and rapid dissemination.
In February, 2006, IEEE Control Systems Magazine celebrated its first 25
years of publication and the special issue was devoted to the topic of PID
control. It was fascinating to read of PID control developments in many of
the departments of the magazine; these included several specialist PID con-
trol articles, a review of PID patents, software and industrial hardware, a
new design software package for PID control and reviews of four substantial
new books on different aspects of the PID control paradigm. The evidence
from this special issue was that PID control continues to play a significant
and important role in industrial control engineering. When seeking reasons
for this industrial popularity, many cite the simplicity of the control law, the
straight forwardness of its tuning procedures and so on but, perhaps a more
fundamental point is that so many industrial control loops are easy to control
and PID control is all that is needed. Then, the simplicity of the PID con-
trol law and the availability of pro-forma tuning procedures have real benefit
particularly as these have been captured by automated tuning procedures in
widely available software packages.
However, the converse of the above argument is also true and much of the sci-
ence of PID control engineering has emerged from trying to understand and
identify the exceptions, where PID control is not adequate for the complex-
ities of the process, and the remedies that can be followed. One example of
this type of new development is that of performance assessment and monitor-
ing. This emerged from trying to find simple ways of determining whether the
many PID control loops in an industrial plant (and often there are hundreds)
had controller tunings that were fit for purpose. Questions like these on the
practical aspects of PID control continue to motivate new developments for
use in industrial practice.
The Advances in Industrial Control series of monographs has always sought