State Feedback Control and Kalman Filtering with MATLAB/Simulink Tutorials

Acknowledgments

We would like to express our gratitude to Professor Graham Goodwin at the University of Newcastle in Australia and Professor Robin Evans at the University of Melbourne in Australia for their help and support over the years. We wish to thank Professor Eric Rogers and Professor Chris Freeman at the University of Southampton, UK, for the collaborative work on repetitive predictive control systems. For discussions, we wish to thank Professor Kevin Moore at the Colorado School of Mines in USA, Professor Tore Hagglund at the Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden, Professor Alex Penlidis at the University of Waterloo in Canada. We wish to thank Dr Arash Vahidnia at RMIT University in Australia for discussions on the topic of drive train control of a wind‐turbine.

For valuable comments towards improvement of this book, we wish to thank Professor Antonio Visioli at the University of Brescia in Italy, Dr Minh Tran and Mr Chuong Nguyen in RMIT Vietnam, Dr John Tsing, who had worked in Measurex Corp. USA as a process control engineer and was an adjunct professor at San Jose State University, USA. We wish to thank Dr Junaid Saeed at RMIT University for drawing the block diagrams of drum boiler, quadruple tank and hot air balloon.