Ulsoy’s Book Published

ME Professor A. Galip Ulsoy’s textbook, Time-Delay Systems: Analysis and Control Using the Lambert W Function, was published last month by World Scientific Publishing Co. Ulsoy co-authored the book with Dr. Yi Sun of the Department of Radiation of Oncology and Dr. Patrick Nelson of the Department of Mathematics.

The book presents a recently developed novel methodology for analysis and control of time-delay systems. Time-delays occur frequently in engineering and science, and can cause problems such as instability that can limit the achievable performance of control systems. Ulsoy’s book uses the Lambert W function to obtain solutions to time-delay systems represented by delay differential equations.