Title: Control Theory : A Guided Tour, 3rd Edition Author: James Ron Leigh ISBN: 1849192278 / 9781849192279 Format: Hard Cover Pages: 444 Publisher: IEE Year: 2012 Availability: Out of Stock
Description
Contents
Using clear tutorial examples, this fully-updated new edition concentrates on explaining and illustrating the concepts that are at the heart of control theory.
It seeks to develop a robust understanding of the underlying principles around which the control subject is built. This simple framework is studded with references to more detailed treatments and with interludes that are intended to inform and entertain.
The book is intended as a companion on the journey through control theory and although the early chapters concentrate on fundamental ideas such as feedback and stability, later chapters deal with more advanced topics such as state variables, optimisation, estimation, Kalman filtering and robust control.
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Professor Karl Astrom
Introduction
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 Repesentation and Mainpulation 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 H and Related Methods Chapter 16 : A Miscellancy of Control Techniques Chapter 17 : Review : The Development of The Control Systems Discipline and The Mathematical Roots of Control Systems Theory Chapter 18 : Resources, Reference and Further Reading
Appendix A : Case Histories
Notation
Afterword
Index