Creating some links between control feedback and biology modeling communities based on similarities in modeling, observing and perceiving alive structures, and analyzing interconnections between biological structures and subsystems was the main objective of this volume.

In this context, biology systems need appropriate analysis tools due to their structure and hierarchy, complexity and environment interference, and we believe that these aspects may generate interesting research topics in control area. Indeed, several works, raising the potential impact of control developments to...

In this book, two robust control methods,
based on Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT) and Linear
Matrix Inequalities (LMIs), are proposed. These methods
allow to obtain simple and systematic procedures to
synthesize control laws for uncertain dc-dc converters that
require high levels of performance. The first method
proposed in the book, based on the QFT technique, allows to
obtain controllers with large control bandwidth and
custom-shaped input-output responses. The method has been
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