Control system design / Graham C. Goodwin, Stefan F. Graebe, Mario E. Salgado.

Accompanied by: 1 computer disc (CD-ROM)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Elements -- The Excitement of Control Engineering -- Motivation for Control Engineering -- Historical Periods of Control Theory -- Types of Control-System Design -- System Integration -- Introduction to the Principles of Feedback -- The Principal Goal of Control -- A Motivating Industrial Example -- Definition of the Problem -- Prototype Solution to the Control Problem via Inversion -- High-Gain Feedback and Inversion -- From Open- to Closed-Loop Architectures -- Trade-offs Involved in Choosing the Feedback Gain -- Measurements -- Modeling -- The Raison d'etre for Models -- Model Complexity -- Building Models -- Model Structures -- State Space Models -- Solution of Continuous-Time State Space Models -- High-Order Differential and Difference-Equation Models -- Modeling Errors -- Linearization -- Continuous-Time Signals and Systems -- Linear Continuous-Time Models -- Laplace Transforms -- Laplace Transform. Properties and Examples -- Transfer Functions -- Stability of Transfer Functions -- Impulse and Step Responses of Continuous-Time Linear Systems -- Poles, Zeros, and Time Responses -- Frequency Response -- Fourier Transform -- Models Frequently Encountered -- Modeling Errors for Linear Systems -- Bounds for Modeling Errors -- SISO Control Essentials -- Analysis of SISO Control Loops -- Feedback Structures -- Nominal Sensitivity Functions -- Closed-Loop Stability Based on the Characteristic Polynomial -- Stability and Polynomial Analysis -- Root Locus (RL) -- Nominal Stability using Frequency Response.

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