Feedback and Control for Everyone [Paperback]

This intriguing and motivating book presents the basic ideas and understanding of control, signals and systems for readers interested in engineering and science. Through a series of examples, the book explores both the theory and the practice of control.

Analogies.- Analogies.- Illustrating Feedback and Control.- Illustrating Feedback and Control.- Signal Analysis.- Signal Analysis.- Systems and Models.- Systems and Models.- Stability, Sensitivity and Robustness.- Stability, Sensitivity and Robustness.- Feedback.- Feedback.- The Control Subsystem.- The Control Subsystem.- Control Subsystem Components.- Control Subsystem Components.- Control Design.- Control Design.- Control Benefits.- Control Benefits.- A Look at the Future.- A Look at the Future.

From the reviews:

The authors succeeded in presenting the so-called mathematically stuffed field of control to understand and appreciate the basic idea of all pervasive feedback and control, signals and systems. & It is a welcome addition & to introduce the ideas of feedback and control to everyone literally. (D. Subbaram Naidu, Amazon.com, December, 2013)

The book is to explain in laypersons terms the essence of feedback and the basic tenets of the field of systems and control. & The book is carefully edited with highlighted text to summarize the key points. & the wealth of physical examples to illustrate the ideas and concepts make it an excellent source for anyone who wants to learn what the subject of feedback control is all about. It can also serve as a useful companion in elementary and intermediate courses on the subject. (Jan C. Willems, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 31, August, 2011)

Feedback and Control for Everyone certainly serves the authors intentions and goals of writing feedback and controls for everyone. & book introduces almost all of the basic concepts of feedback, signals, and controls. Various simple and meanl3