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Title:
Control theory : a guided tour
Series:
IET control engineering series ; 72
Edition:
Third edition
Publication Information:
London, United Kingdom : The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2012
Physical Description:
xxvi, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781849192279
General Note:
Includes index

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Summary

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 also has 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.


Table of Contents

Karl Åström
Acknowledgementsp. xix
Forewordp. xxi
Introductionp. xxiii
The structure, content and purpose of the bookp. xxiii
Some historical threads in the development of control systems technologyp. xxv
1 Control concepts: a non-mathematical introduction
2 Control design ideas: a non-mathematical treatment
3 Synthesis of automatic feedback control loops: a more quantitative view
4 How the Laplace transform greatly simplifi es system representation and manipulation
5 Frequency response methods
6 Mathematical modelling
7 Non-linear systems
8 Limits to performance
9 Some practical aspects of control design, implementation and justifi cation
10 Discrete time and digital control systems
11 Multivariable linear systems and the state space approach
12 Links between state space and classical viewpoints
13 Optimisation
14 State estimation: observers and the Kalman fi lter and prediction
15 An introduction to robust control design using H8 and related methods
16 A miscellany of control techniques
17 Review: the development of the control systems discipline and the mathematical roots of control systems theory
18 Finding books, papers, theses
Notation
Afterword
Index
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