many real time processes have complex, uncertain and nonlinear dynamics. boilers are nonlinear, time varying, multi-input multi-output (mimo) systems, whose states generally vary with operating conditions. the major problem in controlling that system is that its drum water pressure and steam flow dynamics include an integrator that results a critically stable behavior. conventional controller p...

Abstract Tracking of reference signals is addressed in the context a class nonlinear controlled systems modelled by r -th-order functional differential equations, encompassing inter alia with unknown “control direction” and dead-zone input effects. A control structure developed which ensures that, for every member underlying system admissible signal, tracking error evolves prescribed funnel cho...