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| 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) | |
| ... MORE | |
| 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 | |
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