Information and Control

Control Theory is currently a mature topic with a strong mathematical background. However new applications arise which require more complex control structures (e.g. adaptive control, iterative control, etc.).This book considers the control design problem from an information viewpoint. The book provides a new information framework in order to analyze and design control systems. Thus, after a review of the information concept used in control theory, a framework for characterizing the information exchange in a control problem is proposed and used to analyze and compare several iterative and adaptive control schemes. On the second part, a more informative model validation procedure is proposed. The new view of the control problem is of interest for researchers on control theory who seek a new approach valid for the new challenges that control theory must face nowadays.