It includes index.

The book provides an integrated treatment of continuous-time and discrete-time systems for two courses at undergraduate level or one course at postgraduate level. The stress is on the interdisciplinary nature of subject and examples have been drawn from various engineering disciplines to illustrate the basic system concepts. A strong emphasis is laid on modeling of practical systems involving hardware; control components of a wide variety are comprehensively covered. Time and frequency domain techniques of analysis and design of control systems have been exhaustively treated and their interrelationship established.

Adequate breadth and depth is made available for second course. The coverage includes digital control systems: analysis, stability and classical design; state variables for both continuous-time and discrete-time systems; observers and pole-placement design; Liapunov stability; optimal control; and recent advances in control systems: adaptive control, fuzzy logic control, neural network control.

Salient Features

State variables concept introduced in Chapter 2
Examples and problems around obsolete technology updated and new examples added
Robotics modeling and control included
PID tuning procedure well explained and illustrated
Robust control introduced in a simple and easily understood style
State variable formulation and design simplified and generalizations built on examples
Digital control; both classical and modern approaches, covered in depth
A chapter on Adaptive, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network Control, amenable to undergraduate level use, included
Chapter on Nonlinear Systems added
An appendix in MATLAB with examples from time and frequency domain analysis and design, included.

Contents

Introduction
Mathematical Models of Physical Systems
Feedback Characteristics of Control Systems
Control Systems and Components
Time Response Analysis, Design Specifications and Performance Indices
Concepts of Stability and Algebraic Criteria
The Root Locus Technique
Frequency Response Analysis
Stability in Frequency Domain
Introduction to Design
Digital Control Systems
State Variable Analysis and Design
Liapunov's Stability Analysis
Optimal Control Systems
Nonlinear Systems
Advances in Control Systems