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"This rigorous yet accessible textbook provides broad and systematic coverage of linear multivariable control systems, including several new approaches to design. In addition to standard state space theory, it provides a new measurement-based approach to linear systems, including a generalization of Thevenin's Theorem, a new single-input single-output approach to multivariable control, and analytical design of PID controllers developed by the authors. Each result is rigorously proved and combined with specific control systems applications, such as the servomechanism problem, the fragility of high order controllers, multivariable control, and PID controllers. Illustrative examples solved using MATLAB R and SIMULINK R, with easily reusable programming scripts, are included throughout. Numerous end-of-chapter homework problems enhance understanding. Based on course-tested material, this textbook is ideal for a single or two-semester graduate course on linear multivariable control systems in aerospace, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering"--
List of contents
Preface; 1. A measurement-based approach to linear systems; 2. Classical control theory: a brief overview; 3. The [A,B,C,D] state variable model; 4. Modal structure of state space systems; 5. Controllability, observability and realization theory; 6. State feedback, observers and regulators; 7. The optimal linear quadratic regulator; 8. H¥ and H2 optimal control; 9. The linear multivariable servomechanism; 10. Robustness and fragility of control systems; 11. Analytical design of PID controllers; 12. Multivariable control using single input single output methods; Appendix; References; Index.
About the author
Shankar P. Bhattacharyya is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and IFAC, and a Foreign Member of The Brazilian Academy of Sciences and The Brazilian National Academy of Engineering. His contributions to control theory include the first solution of the multivariable servomechanism problem, an algorithm for eigenvalue assignment, robustness and fragility, and a modern analytical approach to the design of PID controllers.Lee H. Keel is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tennessee State University. His areas of expertise include linear systems, parametric robust control, computational methods, and control applications.
Summary
This unique graduate text provides broad and systematic coverage of linear multivariable control systems, including several new approaches to design. Supported by MATLAB and SIMULINK examples and end-of-chapter problems, it is ideal for the first two graduate courses on the subject in aerospace, electrical and mechanical engineering.
