Introduction to Control Engineering : Modeling, Analysis and Design

* Some elementary knowledge of differential equations, vector-matrix analysis & mechanics is a prerequisite.* Text explains basic concepts involved in feedback control theory from the engineer's point of view.* Problems and examples given are drawn from the disciplines of electrical, electronics, chemical, mechanical andaerospace engineering.* Most of the chapters are self-contained and the text will give the students a broader understanding of controlsystem design and analysis.* MATLAB scripts are provided to facilitate students to use it for calculations and analysis.* Each chapter is followed by review problems to test reader's ability to apply the theory involved.About the Book:The material in the text has been organized for gradual and sequential development of control theory starting with astatement of the task of a control engineer at the very outset. This text presents a comprehensive analysis and design ofcontinuous-time control systems and includes more than introductory material for discrete systems with adequateguidelines to extend the results derived in connection with continuous-time systems. Most of the materials includingsolved and unsolved problems presented in the book have been class-tested in senior undergraduate courses in the fieldof control systems at the Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, India.Some representative MATLAB scripts used for solving problems are included at the end of each chapter. The detaileddesign steps of fuzzy logic based controller using SIMULINK and MATLAB has been provided in the book to give thestudent a head start in this emerging discipline. In view of extensive use of MATLAB for rapid verification of controllerdesigns, some notes for using MATLAB script M-files and function M-files are included at the end of the book.A chapter has been included to deal with non-linear components and their analysis using MATLAB and SIMULINKthrough user defined s-functions. Finally, a chapter has been included to deal with the implementation of digitalcontrollers on finite bit computer, to bring out the problems associated with digital controllers.Transfer function and state variable models of typical components and subsystems have been derived in the Appendixat the end of the book.