This book offers a comprehensive treatment of control engineering with a strong balance of analysis and design, mathematics and practice, and theory and hardware; written in a user-friendly style that has ushered in a refreshing excitement in the teaching and learning of the subject. For a first course at the introductory level, it provides a solid foundation of frequency-domain design methods for analysis and design of continuous time control systems, which form the essentials for industrial practice.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction to The Control Problem
Chapter 2 : System Models and Response : Transfer Function, Block Diagram, Signal Flow Graph
Chapter 3 : Development of Models For Industrial Control Devices and Systems
Chapter 4 : Use of Feedback for Control of Uncertain Systems
Chapter 5 : Concepts of Stability and The Routh Stability Criterion
Chapter 6 : Performance Specifications on System Time Response
Chapter 7 : PID Control
Chapter 8 : Root Locus Plots and System Stability
Chapter 9 : Compensator Design Using Root Locus Plots
Chapter 10 : Nyquist/Bode Frequency Response Plots and System Stability
Chapter 11 : Performance Specifications on System Frequency Response
Chapter 12 : Compensator Design Using Bode Plots
Chapter 13 : Digital Control Systems
Chapter 14 : Control System Analysis Using State Variable Methods
Chapter 15 : Control System Design Using State Variable Methods
Chapter 16 : Nonlinear Systems Analysis
Index
