Ebook: Classical feedback control with MATLAB

Doubling as a text book and a reference guide, this volume describes design and implementation of feedback controllers for engineering systems. Special attention is given to the frequency-domain design methods based on loop shaping, Bode integrals, and nonlinear dynamic compensation. The first six chapters support a one-semester course in linear control; the rest of the book considers the issues of complex system simulation, robustness, global stability, and nonlinear control. Throughout, MATLAB and SPICE are used for simulation and design, but no preliminary experience with this software is required. Some knowledge of Laplace transform and frequency responses is assumed. The authors are members of the technical staff at California Institute of Technology.Book News, Inc.R, Portland, OR