Background
Safonov, Michael George was born on November 1, 1948 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of George Michael and Ruth Garnet (Ware) Safonov.
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Stability and Robustness of Multivariable Feedback Systems (Signal Processing, Optimization, and Control)
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This book on stability theory and robustness will interest researchers and advanced graduate students in the area of feedback control engineering, circuits, and systems. It will also appeal to mathematicians who are involved in applications of functional analysis to engineering problems. The book provides a methodology for the rigorous treatment of such inherently feedback aspects of dynamical system design as robustness and sensitivity, just as many researchers are beginning to realize that this type of methodology is mandatory if modern systems theory is to be used to design complicated multivariable and large-scale systems. The main objective of the book is to provide a clear mathematical formulation of the issues that arise in designing feedback systems that are robust against the destabilizing effects of unknown-but-bounded uncertainty in component dynamics. It is the first study to identify formal methods for the quantitative analysis of multiloop feedback system robustness. The view that is presents of nonlinear, multiloop feedback system stability theory is unique, lucid, and conceptually appealing. Lyapunov and input-output stability theories are unified in a new and simple geometrical perspective based on the topological separation of spaces. This perspective greatly facilitates visualization of the underlying conceptual issues in stability and robustness theory and serves to motivate specific results concerning the robustness of feedback systems. Potentially, this methodology may be applied to nonlinear feedback design, validation of modeling approximations, hierarchical control system design, and stability margin analysis for multiloop feedback systems. This book is the third publication in The MIT Press Series in Signal Processing, Optimization, and Control, edited by Alan S. Willsky.
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By Michael George Safonov - Stability and Robustness of Multivariable Feedback Systems (Signa (1980-07-04) Hardcover
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Michael George Safonov
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Education
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971; Electrical engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976; PhDEE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977.
Career
Electronic engineer, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory, Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, 1968-1971; research assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1975-1977; professor electrical engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1977; associate department chairman, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1989-1993. Visiting scholar Cambridge (England) University, 1983-1984, Imperial College, London, 1987, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, 1990-1991. Consultant Honeywell Systems and Research Center, Minneapolis, 1978-1983, Space Systems division TRW, Redondo Beach, California, 1984, Northrop Aircraft, Hawthorne, California, 1985-1991, also numerous others.
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Stability and Robustness of Multivariable Feedback Systems (Signal Processing, Optimization, and Control)
(This book on stability theory and robustness will interes...)
- Robustness and stability aspects of stochastic multivariable feedback system design (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis. 1977. Ph. D)
- By Michael George Safonov - Stability and Robustness of Multivariable Feedback Systems (Signa (1980-07-04) Hardcover
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Stability and Robustness of Multivariable Feedback Systems (Signal Processing, Optimization, and Control)
Membership
Awards committee chair American Automatic Control Council, 1993-1995. Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1972-1975. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (senior), Common Cause.
Connections
Married Nancy Kelshaw Schorn, August 31, 1968 (divorced October 1983). 1 child, Alexander; married Janet Sunderland, February 25, 1985. 1 child, Peter.
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Republican