Autor: Peter Hippe

Peter Hippe was born in Berlin in 1941. He received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in mechanical engineering from Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart in 1969 and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen in 1976. Since then he has been teaching in the Electrical Engineering Department. His main research interests are in the time and frequency domain design of compensators and the problems caused by constrained actuators. He has coauthored the book Zustandsregelung (Springer, 1985) and he is the author of the book Windup in Control (Springer, 2006) Joachim Deutscher was born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1970. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree in Electrical Engineering from Fachhochschule Würzburg- Schweinfurt-Aschaffenburg in 1996, the Dipl.-Ing. Univ. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Dr.-Ing. degree from Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He is head of the nonlinear control systems group at the Lehrstuhl für Regelungstechnik, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His main research interests are in nonlinear control and in the application of polynomial matrix methods in control.