Introduction to Feedback Control

Introduction to Feedback Control

What is often referred to as industrial mathematics is becoming a more important focus of applied mathematics. An increased interest in undergraduate control theory courses for mathematics students is part of this trend. This is due to the fact that control theory is both quite mathematical and very important in applications. Introduction to Feedback Control provides a rigorous introduction to input/output, controller design for linear systems to junior/senior level engineering and mathematics students. All explanations and most examples are single-input, single-output for ease of exposition. The student is assumed to have knowledge of linear ordinary differential equations and complex variables. Written specifically for the applied mathematics student and beginning graduate engineering student - Covers practical stability and controller design in a rigorous way, and focused on frequency domain methods - Elementary but careful introduction to state-space methods, including H-infinity control "...the book would make a very good test for a graduate engineering course in linear feedback control. It could also be avaluable reference for graduate engineering students or applied mathematics students in research in the control area." --Peter Dorato in Control Systems, IEEE (27:1) Feedback control is present in every aspect of modern life, from simple house thermostats that maintain comfortable indoor temperatures to complex devices that maintain the position of communications satellites in space. Feedback control is also a crucial part of almost all engineering systems. Designing feedback systems requires a rigorous understanding of linear systems as well as a number of input/output controller design methods. The purpose of this book is to provide just such a rigorous introduction to input/output controller design for linear systems. For greater clarity, explanations and most examples are confined to single-input-single-output, although generalizations are also made from these examples to more complex multi-input-multi-output systems. @from:What Reviewers Said About Introduction to Feedback Control: @qu:"It is well-written, covers the topics, includes MATLAB, is simple and accessible to senior-level students, it will certainly be considered for adoption." @source:--Robert Paz, Department of Electrical Engineering, New Mexico State University @qu:"This author is unusually readable and clear. I enjoy the nice examples used to illustrate the theory. The examples are terrific." @source:--Alan Edelman, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology