Control Theory A Guided Tour [Hardcover]

Using clear tutorial examples, this fullyupdated 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. This would would appeal to undergraduates in a variety of disciplines seeking to learn the basics of control and is also relevant to economists, scientists, engineers (academic or industrial) and electrical and control engineers.
Contents
Acknowledgements xix
Foreword by Professor Karl ?str?m xxi
Introduction xxiii
The structure, content and purpose of the book xxiii
Some historical threads in the development of control
systems technology 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 estimal£g