Product Description

For senior/graduate-level first courses in Control Theory in departments of Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, and Chemical Engineering.

This comprehensive treatment of the analysis and design of continuous-time control systems provides a gradual development of control theory—and shows how to solve all computational problems with MATLAB. It avoids highly mathematical arguments, and features an abundance of examples and worked problems throughout the text.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1506162 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 970 pages

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This comprehensive treatment of the analysis and design of continuous-time control systems provides a gradual development of control theory — and shows how to solve all computational problems with MATLAB. It avoids highly mathematical arguments, and features an abundance of examples and worked problems throughout. FEATURES- Emphasizes the basic concepts and the design aspects of control systems. Avoids highly mathematical arguments but provides mathematical proofs whenever they contribute to an understanding of the material. Includes examples at strategic points throughout (over 100 total). Contains numerous worked problems (A-problems) at the end of each chapter (over 200 total), and 200 unsolved problem (B-problems). Provides introductory discussion on the two-degrees-of-freedom control system, and introduces design conditions on robust control. Presents an example of a design of a nonlinear model- reference control system. First formulates conditions for Liapunov stability; then designs the system within these limitations. NEW TO THIS EDITION- NEW—Reorganizes content to cover all basic materials of control systems in the first 10 chapters, leaving advanced topics (such as state-space analysis and design of control systems) to the last 3. NEW—Gives detailed explanations of how to write MATLAB programs to solve a variety of problems in control engineering. Includes MATLAB approaches to- Obtain step response, ramp response, and impulse response of control systems. Plotting root loci, Bode diagrams, and Nyquist diagrams. Solving (both analytically and computationally) pole-placement problems, observer design problems, and quadratic optimal control problems. NEW—Expands coverage of the design aspects of control engineering — with many new design problems. NEW—Adds an introduction to robust control (Ch.10). NEW—Adds many new computational problems — all solved with MATLAB.

Customer Reviews

This is a cornerstone in the control litt.
I like the way the material is presented, you can follow the ideas all the way, no short cuts of any kind. It also have plenty usefull example with Matlab code, for easy and fast learning.

Excellent
Without no doubt an excellent book in Classic Control-Systems.
All the explanations and topics are introduced in a step by step, fully explained way with a lot of detailed examples.

You will also learn MATLAB as it's intensively used throughout the book.
It's a pity that there is no reference to discrete-digital control, but it will need at least 500 pages more, and the book already has 1,000 pages.