Peter Beranyi, Ph.D, D. Sc, is head of the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He received his D.Sc in Informatics, his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, his M.Sc. in Education of Engineering Science, and his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. His research interest is on LPV- and LMI-based control design, modeling based on TP functions, fuzzy modeling, fuzzy rule interpolation, and calculation complexity reduction of various model types. He has written 48 journal papers for 262 publications. Yeung Yam, is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He obtained his B.Sc. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, his M.Sc. from the University of Akron, Ohio, USA and his M.Sc., D.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He has published over 100 technical papers in various areas of research, including human skill acquisition and analysis, dynamics modeling, control, system identification, fuzzy approximation, and intelligent and autonomous systems. Peter Valarki, is a professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He graduated in mechanical engineering in 1971 at the Faculty of Transportation Engineering at the Technical University of Budapest, now the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He also earned his Ph.D., his C.Sc. and his D.Sc. He is a founding member of the Hungarian Academy of Engineering and the main topics of his research field are the stochastic control theory, statistical system identification, and computational intelligency. He is the co-author of 10 books and more than 250 other scientific and technical publications.
... well written and easily readable. ... The examples and applications to 3 Degrees Of Freedom (DOFs) control schemes for helicopters, models for aeroelastic wing sections and models for controlling the behavior of suspension system in heavy trucks are the main strength of the book. ... for control engineers with a solid mathematical formation as well as control theorists and even applied mathematicians. -zbMATH 1308 in 2015 The book provides an introduction to a method that has potential to significantly advance the theory and practice of control system design. The modeling step is frequently the most time-consuming stage of practical control system design. The unifying TP representation of quasi LPV models described in this book has potential to make this stage more efficient as well as enabling many of the powerful LMI-based control design methods for LPV systems to be applied to practical problems. -James Whidborne, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK