New Trends in Automation Control Systems and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Control theory deals with the control of dynamic systems of any kind in electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering processes and tandems of industrial machines, in general, as well as in biological and economical systems. An attractive point of the theory is that the mathematical formalism to be used is almost independent of the kind of problem at hand. The main control design purpose is to cancel or to reduce the steady-state response errors related to some prescribed reference signal and to achieve a reasonable or null overshoot and a reasonable response time along the transient while ensuring control stability. For that purpose, a designed device, the so-called controller, is coupled with the system to be controlled so that the tandem of both systems, the so-called closed-loop system, achieves the desired specifications. In fact, the designed controller fixes an appropriate corrective behavior in the uncontrolled system to achieve the suited specifications. This Special Issue will collect and bring together new ideas, either at the theoretical level or in novel applications and designs, concerning problems where control theory and/or related design tools are essential.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Stabilization methods and design tools for control systems
• Nonlinear control systems
• Switched and impulsive dynamic systems and their stabilization techniques
• Control tools for biological and epidemic models
• Frequency domain techniques and analysis of control systems
• Stabilization and control of large scale systems
• Adaptive control
• Adaptive and non-uniform sampling in control systems
• Discretization techniques and discrete models in automatic control
• Multimodel control structures and related stabilization techniques
• Stabilization and control of time-varying systems
• Fractional dynamic systems and new designs of fractional controllers
• Sliding-mode control
• Modal control
• Mathematical control theory
• Control designs for structures and in electrical, mechanical, and chemical
• Engineering
• Novel applications related to the above topics
• Neural networks
• Complex dynamical systems
• Impulsive control
• Hybrid control
• Finite-time synchronization

Prof. Dr. Manuel De La Sen
Prof. Dr. Grienggrai Rajchakit
Guest Editors

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