Accounting for Constraints in Delay Systems

Time-delays are fundamental to understand phenomena incontrol applications as networked systems, traffic management, control ofvibrations, and supply chains.The needfor a performance and reliability on thesesystems has to overcome challenges relatedto the constraints in the controlled systems. These constraints can bephysical, such as input magnitude saturation on actuators, or technological,such as the limited bandwidth ina networked system or the fixed structure in acontrol architecture, where only a few parameters can be set. This volumeprovides a wide-ranging collection of methods for the analysis and design ofcontrol laws for delaysystemswith constraints. These methods cover fundamental analytical aspects as,for instance, the stability analysis of Positive Delay systems or theachievable performance of PID controls for delay systems.The bookgives valuable material for researchers and graduatestudents in Automatic Control.