Product Description

Real-world applications--Integrates real-world analysis and design applications throughout the text. Examples include: the sun-seeker system, the liquid-level control, dc-motor control, and space-vehicle payload control.
* Examples and problems--Includes an abundance of illustrative examples and problems.
* Marginal notes throughout the text highlight important points.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #576213 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 624 pages

From the Publisher
This best-selling, classic introduction to automatic control systems has been updated to reflect the increasing use of computer-aided learning and design, and revised to feature a more accessible approach -- without sacrificing depth.

From the Back Cover
Key Benefit: This comprehensive, easy to read classic introduction to automatic control systems has been updated to reflect the increasing use of computer-aided learning and design. It si designed for self study. Key Topics: Demonstrates the solution of complex problems with the aid of computer software. Integrates several Real World applications throughout the text—from analysis to design—e.g., the sun-seeker system, the liquid-level control, dc-motor control, space-vehicle payload control, etc. Provides a thorough discussion of steady-state error analysis, including nonunity-feedback systems. Adds a chapter on Design of Discrete-Data Control Systems.

About the Author
Dr. Farid Golnaraghi is a professor and the Director of Mechatronic Systems Engineering at the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver since 2006. He also holds a Burnaby Mountain endowed Chair at SFU, and his primary research focus is on Intelligent Vehicle Systems. Prior to joining SFU, he was a professor of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His pioneering research has resulted in two textbooks, more than a hundred and fifty journal and Conference papers, four patents and two start-up companies.

Dr. Benjamin C. Kuo is professor emeritus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received many awards on his theoretical and applied research on control systems. He has written numerous papers and has authored more than 10 books on control systems. He has consulted extensively in industry.

Customer Reviews

The best general book about control engineering
I had to use this book for my last semester in electrical engineering. It is really interesting, well explained and complete for a concise introduction about control engineering and design of controllers.

All you need to follow the text are basic notions in engineer's mathematics (a bit of calculus and algebra). A few chapters offer reviews of important notions (transfert functions, state variable modeling, differential equations, ...) Then, you get to the essential, control theory.

The book is well divided. First chapters cover mathematical notions you have to master in order to succeed in the next part (signal flow diagrams, block diagrams, a bit of mechanic). Then, a few chapters introduce control loops, poles and zeros interpretation (explained very well with a lot of graphs examples). A single chapter covers root loci drawing. Great explanations about controllers are complete and easy to understand. The last chapter is kept for design only with A LOT of examples for PID, phase-lag, filters, etc.

Emphasis is made on computer design with examples all along the book. The CD included offers a few useful tools to use for design with Matlab.

The author knows his subject more than anyone else. He has good experience in design and the text is well written. A must for anyone studying the subject.

Great for beginners and experts alike
Like all of Kuo's other books, this one is good reading. It covers all the important topics involved in Control system theory, time and frequency domain analysis and graph techniques, amongst other topics. Good question-and-answer section. Kuo has this style of writing where you feel he can read your mind and know what you are thinking as you read the book. It's a great book for beginners and experts alike. I think this is one of the best books on Control systems theory.

Good, if you already familiar with...
Good if you've already familiar with Control Systems.
It skips some parts as detailing in Mathematical Foundation and goes straight to the subject that you want to know.
Comes with a CD with a very handy Mathlab program to solve Transfer Functions,etc.
However, you have to download the Appendixes from the internet, because contrary to what it says, there are no appendixes on the included CD, only the Mathlab program.
But it is a good book for post-graduate students and engineers.