Control Theory [Paperback]

Concise highly readable book emphasising the concepts and principles that are prerequisite for understanding both traditional and recent control theory.

The text is enlivened by a large number of interesting interludes that complement the main text.

This second edition ofControl Theory: A Guided Tour(IEE 1992) has been fully revised and enlarged and now contains an introduction to H infinity methods as well as a new chapter on Artificial Intellingence (AI) methods and a retrospective review of how control theory developed. All the topics covered can be taken further using the extensive annotated reference section.

This fully revised and updated edition discusses how the rise of H infinity and similar approaches has allowed a combination of practicality, rigour and user interaction to be brought to bear on complex control problems and has helped bridge the gap between control theory and practice.

• Chapter 1: Control concepts: a non-mathematical introduction
• Chapter 2: Control design ideas: a non-mathematical treatment
• Chapter 3: Synthesis of automatic feedback control loops: a more quantitative view
• Chapter 4: How the Laplace transform greatly simplifies system representation and manipulation
• Chapter 5: Frequency response methods
• Chapter 6: Mathematical modelling
• Chapter 7: Limits to performance
• Chapter 8: Some practical aspects of control design, justification and implementation
• Chapter 9: Linearisation
• Chapter 10: Multivariable linear processes
• Chapter 11: Discrete time and computer control
• Chapter 12: State estimation: the Kalman filter and prediction
• Chapter 13: Non-linearity
• Chapter 14: Optimisation
• Chapter 15: Distributed systems
• Chapter 16: An introduction to robust control design using H_infinitymethods
• Chapter 17: Neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, learning systems intlÓ1