Overview
For senior-level or first-year graduate-level courses in control analysis and design, and related courses within engineering, science, and management.
Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, Sixth Edition is perfect for practicing control engineers who wish to maintain their skills. This revision of a top-selling textbook on feedback control with the associated web site, FPE6e.com, provides greater instructor flexibility and student readability. Chapter 4 on A First Analysis of Feedback has been substantially rewritten to present the material in a more logical and effective manner. A new case study on biological control introduces an important new area to the students, and each chapter now includes a historical perspective to illustrate the origins of the field. As in earlier editions, the book has been updated so that solutions are based on the latest versions of MATLAB and SIMULINK. Finally, some of the more exotic topics have been moved to the web site.
Synopsis
Combining analysis with design using the three approaches of the root locus, frequency response, and state variable equations, this engineering text presents the mathematical background on the design of feedback control in a wide range of systems. After covering basic information, chapters address dynamic modeling; dynamic response as used in control; and the essential effects of feedback on tracking accuracy, disturbance rejection, and sensitivity to modal errors. The exercises emphasize the ability to do basic calculations by hand, in order to facilitate understanding. This new edition adds discussion of digital control to the material. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Booknews
A textbook that develops insights into the problems of control and intuition about methods available to solve them, emphasizes design in parallel with analysis techniques, shows the unity among the several individual design techniques and synthesizes them into a "toolbox" of problem-solving methods, and presents this interdisciplinary material in a way that is easily understood by students from any engineering background. In addition to pedagogical enhancements, this edition adds computer commands for many operations and makes available a MATLAB toolbox with files that will reproduce many of the figures of the text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)