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I wish to acknowledge the funding support from Mathworks Academic Support on the project entitled “PID Control Systems with Constraints: Design and Automatic Tuning using MATLAB/Simulink”. Particularly, I would like to thank Mr Bradley Horton from Mathworks for his help and support. I wish to thank Professors Shihua Li, Xisong Chen, Jun Yang and Dr Zhenhua Zhao in Southeast University, China, for interesting discussions on disturbance observer, during my visit to their university in 2014 and 2015. I wish to thank Dr Xi Chen and Dr Pakorn Poksawat previously at RMIT University Australia for their contributions on the automatic control of unmanned aerial vehicles.

For valuable comments towards improvement of this book, I wish to thank Professor Antonio Visioli at the University of Brescia, Italy, Dr John Tsing, who had worked in Measurex Corp. USA as a process control engineer and was an adjunct professor at San Jose State University, USA, Dr N. Leonard Segall of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, Dr Chow Yin Lai, Dr Lasantha Meegahapola, Dr Arash Vahidnia, Dr Nuwantha Fernando, at RMIT University, Australia. I wish to thank Michelle Dunkley, Louis Vasanth Manoharan and Tessa Edmunds from Wiley and Sons Ltd for help and support during this book project, and Dipta Maitra for the book cover design.

I would like to thank my teaching team, Dr Robin Guan, Mr Long Tran Quang, Mr Junaid Saeed, Mr Luke McNabb and Mr Yifeng Sun, for their initiatives in teaching laboratory development. They have worked diligently to enhance students' learning experience in the subject of Advanced Control Systems at RMIT University, Australia.