Call for Papers: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control Performance of Nonlinear Control Systems

Abstract

The International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control is inviting papers for a special issue on ‘Performance of Nonlinear Control Systems’ (for a description of the scope, see below). Authors are kindly requested to submit their papers by October 1st 2011 following the link Online Submission on the journals homepage: wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/rnc. Authors must select Nathan van de Wouw or Marcel Heertjes as the Submitting Editor. Each submission must be clearly identified as a submission for this special issue by entering Performance of Nonlinear Control Systems in the Special Issue Title Field. The manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the publication format described in ‘For Authors’ on the journal homepage. Scope: The topic of this special issue is the performance analysis and performance-oriented design of nonlinear control systems. Nonlinear control has received wide attention in the systems and control literature and examples of the practical application of nonlinear control in practice are widely available. Still, the majority of the (theoretical) advances made are related to the design of stabilizing nonlinear controllers for (nonlinear) plants, indeed no easy task in general, while not accounting for performancerelated issues. Moreover, in many industries, still the application of linear control techniques prevails. One of the main reasons is the fact that performance is key in practical applications, be it in the form of transient performance criteria, such as rise time and overshoot, or in the form of sensitivity to perturbations, such as measurement noise and external disturbances. On the one hand, linear control techniques have been so successful since a profound (frequencydomain) framework for performance analysis exists. On the other hand, linear control is subject to fundamental (performance) limitations, a famous example of which is the Bode sensitivity integral. Nonlinear control may overcome such limitations. To harvest the full potential of nonlinear control in practice, the further development of powerful performance analysis tools for nonlinear control systems and matching performance-based design techniques for nonlinear controllers are needed, hence this special issue. Resuming, topics of particular interest are, but not limited to: • Performance limitations in linear control systems and how nonlinear control may be employed to overcome such limitations. • Tools for performance analysis of nonlinear control systems. • Performance-based synthesis techniques of nonlinear controllers. • (Industrial) application of high-performance nonlinear controllers.