Demand for this book will come from research engineers looking to find ways to deal with systems (especially non-linear systems) which have been difficult to deal with in traditional control and from industrial control engineers looking to take advantage of the low-solution costs associated with the implementation of fuzzy methods in improving existing control protocols.
Jairo Espinosa had a considerable experience of the practitioner side of advanced control systems and fuzzy systems in particular working with such companies as Zenith Data Systems in his native Colombia. There, he also won prizes for his academic work and for electronic design. He now works for IPCOS a company specialising in the design of advanced control systems for many process industries. This wil allow the author to draw on a good selection of industrial situations in writing the book.
Vincent Wertz is now head of the Automatic Control Group at Louvain where he is particularly active in Ph.D. supervision work (his contributions to the book will ensure relevance to the graduate market) and the book reflects all of his main research interests.