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Preface Over the last seven years the Science and Engineering Research Council (previously the Science Research Council) have been instrumental in the organization and financing of a series of vacation schools. These have been aimed primarily at recipients of SFFC postgraduate awards but some non-SFRC students, together with a few workers from industry (in the UK and elsewhere) have also taken part. Two of these vacation schools have been on the subject of analysis and design of control systems and have been held at the Control Systems Centre in the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). The chapters of this present book form the lectures to be given at the third UMIST vacation school during the week 2 9 March 3 April, 1982. The title of the vacation school is the same as that for this book. It is inevitable and indeed desirable that a subject such as engineering design of multivariable systems will develop over a period of six years. This becomes apparent if one compares the contents of the 1976 UMIST vacation school as given in "Modern approaches to control system design" (N. Munro, Fd., IFE Control Engineering Series 9, Peter Peregrinus, 1979) with the contents of the volume before you. Some of the 1976 topics no longer appear in this 1982 version, not because they are now obsolete or research is no longer taking place in those areas but because we have felt it right and proper to make way for either new subjects (such as large scale systems) or interesting new applications (e.g. the nuclear boiler in Chapter 6). Even in the case
where 1976 topics are retained we have arranged for some different aspects to be presented in this new publication. It will be noticed that no fundamental background material on single-input single-output systems and linear algebra is presented in the present volume, unlike in the reference given above. This is because we feel that such material is readily available from many sources and in particular the quoted reference may be consulted. The organization of a vacation school and at the same time the preparation of a book to be published before the school takes place is a daunting task. We certainly would not have succeeded without the full cooperation of all the lecturers involved in the school, the typist who prepared the cameraready copy and the staff of the publishers. Our grateful thanks therefore go to all those who honoured deadlines and delivered the drafts of the chapters which follow this preface, to Vera Butterworth who typed the whole volume under exceptionally trying circumstances, and to Pauline Maliphant of Peter Peregrinus Ltd. who waited so patiently for the chapters to arrive at Stevenage from Manchester. This book would not have appeared but for the support given by the Science and Engineering Research Council and our sincere thanks go to staff of the SERC and to the other members of the planning panel which organized the vacation school. D.J. Bell P.A. Cook N. Munro Manchester, 1982.
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