Introduction to control-oriented modelling

The process of developing control-oriented mathematical models of physical systems is a complex task, which in general implies a careful combination of prior knowledge about the physics of the system under study and information coming from experimental data. The aim of this book is to present state-of-the-art methods and tools available within the systems and control literature to support control-oriented modelling activities and to illustrate their usefulness by means of a number of case studies and applications.