Product Description

For junior/senior level undergraduate and 1st year graduate courses in Control Theory.

This introductory text provides an in-depth, comprehensive treatment of a collection of classical and state-space approaches to control system design—and ties the methods together so that a designer is able to pick the method that best fits the problem at hand. It includes case studies and comprehensive examples with close integration of MATLAB throughout the book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1206243 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 910 pages

Customer Reviews

More than mathematics
This book gives more explanation about the concepts of control systems. It differs from many other books in that it doesn't focus on how to mathematically solve problems (without or very little explanation of what/why they are trying to solve for) but systematically introduces how to look at the problems from control system perspectives. Reading this book gave me an intuitive understanding of the control systems. Also, the book is well organized and very enjoyable reading.

A well written second book
This book assumes a certain knowledge in the subject field and does not attempt to cover these pre-requisites. A good basic knowledge of dynamical systems is essential (as the author(s) themselves point out). However it's depth into feedback is excellent and well aimed at university students begining a course in feedback control.

Pros and Cons
The writing is mediocre. It misses on mechanical-electrical analysis analogs, such as the mathematical "equality" between the analysis of springs and inductors.

The Appendix includes useful reviews of complex calculus, but it does NOT have answer sets.