The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2004 eISBN: 978-1-84919-054-1 | Cloth: 978-0-86341-339-1 Library of Congress Classification TJ213.L335 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 629.8312
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Concise highly readable book emphasising the concepts and principles that are prerequisite for understanding both traditional and recent 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: Limits to performance
Chapter 8: Some practical aspects of control design, justification and implementation
Chapter 9: Linearisation
Chapter 10: Multivariable linear processes
Chapter 11: Discrete time and computer control
Chapter 12: State estimation: the Kalman filter and prediction
Chapter 13: Non-linearity
Chapter 14: Optimisation
Chapter 15: Distributed systems
Chapter 16: An introduction to robust control design using Hinfinity methods
Chapter 17: Neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, learning systems intelligent systems
Chapter 18: Review - the development of control theory and the emergence artificial intelligence (AI) techniques