TY - BOOK AU - Goodwin,Graham C. AU - Graebe,Stefan F. AU - Salgado,Mario E. TI - Control system design SN - 0139586539 AV - TJ213 .G585 2000 U1 - 629.8 21 PY - 2001///] CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Prentice Hall KW - Automatic control KW - System design N1 - 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 ER -