Peter Hippe was born in Berlin in 1941. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in mechanical engineering from Universitat Stuttgart, Stuttgart in 1969 and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Friedrich-Alexander Universitat, Erlangen in 1976. Since then he has been teaching in the Electrical Engineering Department. His main research interests are in the time and frequency domain design of compensators and the problems caused by constrained actuators. He has coauthored the book Zustandsregelung (Springer, 1985) and he is the author of the book Windup in Control (Springer, 2006) Joachim Deutscher was born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1970. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in Electrical Engineering from Fachhochschule Wurzburg- Schweinfurt-Aschaffenburg in 1996, the Dipl.-Ing. Univ. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He is head of the nonlinear control systems group at the Lehrstuhl fur Regelungstechnik, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg. His main research interests are in nonlinear control and in the application of polynomial matrix methods in control.

• Polynomial Matrix Fraction Descriptions.- State Feedback Control.- State Observers.- Observer-based Compensators.- Parametric Compensator Design.- Decoupling Control.- Disturbance Rejection Using the Internal Model Principle.- Optimal Control and Estimation.- Model-matching Control with Two Degrees of Freedom.- Observer-based Compensators with Disturbance Rejection for Discrete-time Systems.- Optimal Control and Estimation for Discrete-time Systems.

From the reviews: "This book uses polynomial matrices to develop a frequency-domain approach for the design of observer-based compensators. ... The work is generally self-contained and easy to read ... . Each chapter starts with an introduction which presents its topic, history and content. A significant number of worked-out examples illustrate the concepts and algorithms provided. Many results have been obtained by the authors in a series of papers indicated in the references. ... presents a selection of the most important and useful works in the field." (Valeriu Prepelita, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 e)

Peter Hippe was born in Berlin in 1941. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in mechanical engineering from Universitat Stuttgart, Stuttgart in 1969 and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Friedrich-Alexander Universitat, Erlangen in 1976. Since then he has been teaching in the Electrical Engineering Department. His main research interests are in the time and frequency domain design of compensators and the problems caused by constrained actuators. He has coauthored the book Zustandsregelung (Springer, 1985) and he is the author of the book Windup in Control (Springer, 2006) Joachim Deutscher was born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1970. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in Electrical Engineering from Fachhochschule Wurzburg- Schweinfurt-Aschaffenburg in 1996, the Dipl.-Ing. Univ. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He is head of the nonlinear control systems group at the Lehrstuhl fur Regelungstechnik, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg. His main research interests are in nonlinear control and in the application of polynomial matrix methods in control.

• Polynomial Matrix Fraction Descriptions.- State Feedback Control.- State Observers.- Observer-based Compensators.- Parametric Compensator Design.- Decoupling Control.- Disturbance Rejection Using the Internal Model Principle.- Optimal Control and Estimation.- Model-matching Control with Two Degrees of Freedom.- Observer-based Compensators with Disturbance Rejection for Discrete-time Systems.- Optimal Control and Estimation for Discrete-time Systems.

From the reviews: "This book uses polynomial matrices to develop a frequency-domain approach for the design of observer-based compensators. ... The work is generally self-contained and easy to read ... . Each chapter starts with an introduction which presents its topic, history and content. A significant number of worked-out examples illustrate the concepts and algorithms provided. Many results have been obtained by the authors in a series of papers indicated in the references. ... presents a selection of the most important and useful works in the field." (Valeriu Prepelita, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 e)

Peter Hippe was born in Berlin in 1941. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in mechanical engineering from Universitat Stuttgart, Stuttgart in 1969 and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Friedrich-Alexander Universitat, Erlangen in 1976. Since then he has been teaching in the Electrical Engineering Department. His main research interests are in the time and frequency domain design of compensators and the problems caused by constrained actuators. He has coauthored the book Zustandsregelung (Springer, 1985) and he is the author of the book Windup in Control (Springer, 2006) Joachim Deutscher was born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1970. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in Electrical Engineering from Fachhochschule Wurzburg- Schweinfurt-Aschaffenburg in 1996, the Dipl.-Ing. Univ. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He is head of the nonlinear control systems group at the Lehrstuhl fur Regelungstechnik, Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg. His main research interests are in nonlinear control and in the application of polynomial matrix methods in control.

• Polynomial Matrix Fraction Descriptions.- State Feedback Control.- State Observers.- Observer-based Compensators.- Parametric Compensator Design.- Decoupling Control.- Disturbance Rejection Using the Internal Model Principle.- Optimal Control and Estimation.- Model-matching Control with Two Degrees of Freedom.- Observer-based Compensators with Disturbance Rejection for Discrete-time Systems.- Optimal Control and Estimation for Discrete-time Systems.

From the reviews: "This book uses polynomial matrices to develop a frequency-domain approach for the design of observer-based compensators. ... The work is generally self-contained and easy to read ... . Each chapter starts with an introduction which presents its topic, history and content. A significant number of worked-out examples illustrate the concepts and algorithms provided. Many results have been obtained by the authors in a series of papers indicated in the references. ... presents a selection of the most important and useful works in the field." (Valeriu Prepelita, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 e)