Book Description

Setting out core theory and reviewing new methods, theoretical problems and applications, this handbook shows how hybrid systems can be modelled and understood. Sixty expert authors involved in recent developments and industrial applications provide practical insights, whilst running examples and numerous illustrations help readers to recognise problems and find solutions.

About the Author

Jan Lunze is Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, where he teaches systems and control theory. His research interests are in hybrid and discrete-event systems, in fault diagnosis and in control theory of networked systems where he currently coordinates a Priority Programme of the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). He is the author or co-author of numerous technical papers and several monographs and textbooks.

Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue is Director of Research at the CNRS within the Signals and Systems Laboratory (L2S). She is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Control, Scientific Manager of the HYCON Network of Excellence, and President of the European Embedded Control Institute (EECI). In 2008, she won the Michel Monpetit prize of the French Academy of Science.