Control Theory : A Guided Tour, 3rd Edition

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