This clearly written and comprehensive Third Edition provides students with a background in continuous-time analog classical control concepts. Design examples at the end of most chapters support the text's strong design orientation, as do thorough discussions of design methods using root locus and Bode methods that go beyond rote memorization. An expanded, more versatile treatment of modeling includes a comprehensive variety of electrical, mechanical, and electromechanical systems. This gives instructors the option of emphasizing dynamic modeling, or using a system approach. Time domain compensation (an international design method), and pole placement (an important new design method) have been added. Row shifting is covered for Routh arrays, and several advanced topics such as loop transfer recovery and H¥ methods are also now covered. A software package--Program CC: Introductory Version--and accompanying manual are correlated to the text, providing coding examples that illustrate how coding produces computer results. The software also offers students valuable practice solving problems using a computer: a skill that will benefit them greatly in the workplace.

Design of Feedback Control Systems (The ^AOxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Engineering & Transportation

Raymond T. Stefani

Clement J. Savant

B. Shahian

Engineering

Oxford University Press

Design of Feedback Control Systems is designed for electrical and mechanical engineering students in advanced undergraduate control systems courses. Now in its fourth edition, this tutorial-style textbook has been completely updated to include the use of modern analytical software, especially MATLAB�. It thoroughly discusses classical control theory and state variable control theory, as well as advanced and digital control topics. Each topic is preceded by analytical considerations that provide a well-organized parallel treatment of analysis and design. Design is presented in separate chapters devoted to root locus, frequency domain, and state space viewpoints. Treating the use of computers as a means rather than as an end, this student-friendly book contains new "Computer-Aided Learning" sections that demonstrate how MATLAB� can be used to verify all figures and tables in the text. Clear and accessible, Design of Feedback Control Systems, Fourth Edition, makes complicated methodology comprehensible to a wide spectrum of students. Features � Keyed to today's dominant design tool, MATLAB� � Includes drill problems for gauging knowledge and skills after each topic � Provides state-of-the-art design examples � Uses marginal summaries to guide the reader � Introduces new ideas in the context of previous material, with a guide to the information that follows � Presents practical examples of the latest advances in control sciences

Design of Feedback Control Systems (Oxford Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hardcover))

Science & Math

Bahram Shahian

Gene H. Hostetter

Technology

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