This book covers the author’s research achievements and the latest advances in high-speed pneumatic control theory and applied technologies. It presents the basic theory and highlights pioneering technologies resulting from research and development efforts in aerospace, aviation and other major equipment, including: pneumatic servo control theory, pneumatic nonlinear mechanisms, aerothermodynamics, pneumatic servo mechanisms, and high-speed pneumatic control theory.

Yin Yaobao, Dr. Eng., is a Professor and Dean of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Tongji University. He is also vice chairman of Shanghai Mechanical Engineering Society’s Fluid Power Transmission and Control Committee; director of the Chinese Society of Vibration Engineering’s Mechanical Power Committee; a member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society’s Fluid Power Transmission and Control Committee; and a member of the Shanghai Society of Astronautics Launcher Committee. His research areas include fluid power transmission and control theory in extreme environments, servomechanisms and power units for aircraft, high-speed hydraulic and pneumatic servo systems, servo valves, future energy and power control solutions, and ocean wave energy converters.