Active Control of Offshore Steel Jacket Platforms

Professor Qing-Long Han is a leading researcher at the international level in the field of Control Theory and Control Engineering. He has published over three hundred and sixty (360) fully-refereed papers in prestigious journals and leading conferences, two research-based books (monographs), one research-based book chapter, and edited three conference proceedings and four special issues. In May 2016, he was appointed Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. In March 2010, he was appointed a prestigious Chair by China’s Ministry of Education, “Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) Scholar Chair Professor” in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Control Theory and Control Engineering. In August 2011, the Talents Coordination Committee of Shanxi Province of China confirmed that he was selected and appointed as “100 Talents Program” Chair Professor due to his outstanding contributions to Control Theory and Control Engineering. InSeptember 2013, October 2014, and May 2015, he was selected and appointed “Overseas Distinguished Professor” by Shanghai Education Committee, Shanghai Municipality, China. He was also appointed Chair Professor at many universities in China.

Introduction.- Dynamic models of offshore platforms.- Optimal tracking control with feedforward compensation.- Integral sliding mode H∞ control.- Delayed integral sliding mode control.- Delayed robust non-fragile H∞ control.- Delayed dynamic output feedback control.- Network-based modeling and active control.- Event-triggered H∞ reliable control in network environments.-References.- Index.