Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures ix
4. List of Tables xv
5. Preface xvii
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Applications
8. 2. Single-Cable Mining Elevators 9
9. 3. Dual-Cable Elevators 34
10. 4. Elevators with Disturbances 64
11. 5. Elevators with Flexible Guides 95
12. 6. Deep-Sea Construction 130
13. 7. Deep-Sea Construction with Event-Triggered Delay Compensation 170
14. 8. Offshore Rotary Oil Drilling 202
15. Part II. Generalizations
16. 9. Basic Control of Sandwich Hyperbolic PDEs 231
17. 10. Delay-Compensated Control of Sandwich Hyperbolic Systems 273
18. 11. Event-Triggered Control of Sandwich Hyperbolic PDEs 310
19. 12. Sandwich Hyperbolic PDEs with Nonlinearities 341
20. Part III. Adaptive Control of Hyperbolic PDE-ODE Systems
21. 13. Adaptive Event-Triggered Control of Hyperbolic PDEs 375
22. 14. Adaptive Control with Regulation-Triggered Parameter Estimation of Hyperbolic PDEs 405
23. 15. Adaptive Control of Hyperbolic PDEs with Piecewise-Constant Inputs and Identification 439
24. Bibliography 473
25. Index 487