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: #549205 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.

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.

Linear Control Systems
From Back Cover:

"Benjamin C. Kuo thoroughly discusses the fundamentals of linear control systems analysis and design in the Sixth Edition of the best-selling 'Automatic Control Systems.' This new edition has been significantly revised and completely redesigned.

Featuring even more in-dept coverage of conventional time-domain and frequency-domain analysis and design methods, this solid text and reference book:

* broadens its treatment of reduced-order approximation of high-order systems; PID controller design; bridged-T controller design; phase-lead and phase-lag control; lead-lag control; pole-zero cancellation control; and stability analysis.
* offers a new approach to the Nyquist stability criterion, requiring only one simple plot of the transfer function for a large class of systems.
* examines disturbance rejection and design sensitivity specifications.
* demonstrates robust control design at the entry level.
* uses numerous real-world systems such as the sun-seeker system, aircraft-attitude control, dc-motor control, and space-vehicle pay-load control as numerical examples."