Product Description

For senior-level or first-year graduate-level courses in control analysis and design, and related courses within engineering, science, and management.

 

What every engineer needs to know about feedback control.

 

Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, 6/e covers the material that every engineer, and most scientists and prospective managers, needs to know about feedback control, including concepts like stability, tracking, and robustness. Each chapter presents the fundamentals along with comprehensive, worked-out examples, all within a real-world context and with historical background information. The authors also provide case studies with close integration of MATLAB throughout.

 

The new edition has been updated to include the latest developments in the field.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1187327 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 840 pages

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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.