The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2012 eISBN: 978-1-84919-228-6 | Cloth: 978-1-84919-227-9 Library of Congress Classification TJ213.L335 2012
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Using clear tutorial examples, this fully updated new edition concentrates on explaining and illustrating the concepts that are at the heart of control theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Control concepts: a non-mathematical introduction
Chapter 2: Control design ideas: a non-mathematical treatment
Chapter 3: Synthesis of automatic feedback control loops: a more quantitative view
Chapter 4: How the Laplace transform greatly simplifies system representation and manipulation
Chapter 5: Frequency response methods
Chapter 6: Mathematical modelling
Chapter 7: Non-linear systems
Chapter 8: Limits to performance
Chapter 9: Some practical aspects of control design, implementation and justification
Chapter 10: Discrete time and digital control systems
Chapter 11: Multivariable linear systems and the state space approach
Chapter 12: Links between state space and classical viewpoints
Chapter 13: Optimisation
Chapter 14: State estimation: observers and the Kalman filter and prediction
Chapter 15: An introduction to robust control design using Hinfinity and related methods
Chapter 16: A miscellany of control techniques
Chapter 17: Review: the development of the control systems discipline and the mathematical roots of control systems theory
Chapter 18: Resources, references and further reading