this Is A Textbook Designed For An Advanced Course In Control Theory. Currently Most Textbooks On The Subject Either Looks At Multivariate Systems Or Non-linear Systems. However, Control Theory Is The Only Textbook Available That Covers Both. It Explains Current Developments In These Two Types Of Control Techniques, And Looks At Tools For Computer-aided Design, For Example Matlab And Its Toolboxes. To Make Full Use Of Computer Design Tools, A Good Understanding Of Their Theoretical Basis Is Necessary, And To Enable This, The Book Presents Relevant Mathematics Clearly And Simply. The Practical Limits Of Control Systems Are Explored, And The Relevance Of These To Control Design Are Discussed. Control Theory Is An Ideal Textbook For Final-year Undergraduate And Postgraduate Courses, And The Student Will Be Helped By A Series Of Exercises At The End Of Each Chapter. Professional Engineers Will Also Welcome It As A Core Reference. booknews this Is A Paperbound Edition Of A 2000 Book About Which Book News Wrote: Usable For Self-study, But Primarily Intended As A Text For One Of Several Undergraduate Or Graduate Control Courses That Begin Where A Typical Undergraduate Control Course Ends. Readers Are Assumed To Be Familiar With The Continuous Time, Single-input-single-output Systems; Frequency Functions; And Elementary State Space Theory. One Goal Of Glad And Ljung (both Electrical Engineering, Link ping U., Sweden) Is To Provide Background For Using The Many New Control Design Packages That Implement Advanced Control Synthesis Techniques. Another Is To Describe And Discuss Basic Aspects Of Control Design, The Approaches, The Key Quantities To Consider, And The Fundamental Limitations Inherent In The Designs. The Original, Was Published By Studenlitteratur In 1997. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com) This textbook is designed for an advanced course in control theory. Basic courses in control typically cover linear time invariant systems with one input and one output. Since industrial processes often have several inputs and outputs and contain nonlinearities, these topics need to be covered in a second course. Control Theory explains current developments in multivariable and nonlinear control techniques, and looks at tools for computer aided design, for example Matlab and its toolboxes.It is now possible for practical engineering to use many of the recent developments based on deep mathematical results, such as H-Infinity methods and exact linearization. To make full use of computer design tools, a good understanding of their theoretical basis is necessary, and to enable this the book presents relevant mathematics clearly and simply. The practical limits of control systems are explored, and the relevance of these to control design are discussed.The book is ideal for a final year undergraduate or postgraduate course, and the student is helped by a series of exercises at the end of each chapter. Professional engineers will also welcome Control Theory as a core reference.
