Modern Control Systems - Hardcover

Dorf, Richard C.; Bishop, Robert H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201308649 ISBN 13: 9780201308648

Publisher: Pearson, 1997

Synopsis

Two new features have been added to the eighth edition to complement the book’s strong integration of design and analysis. The Sequential Design Problem feature, using a disk drive as the example, highlights the main themes in each chapter and how they impact the design of a control system. A Continuous Design Problem is included at the end of each problem set to give students an opportunity to model, analyze, and design various types of controllers for a table-top machine tool as they proceed through the chapters. The textbook provides a clear exposition of the basic principles of control system design techniques using frequency- and time-domain methods as well as the state variable method.

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From the Back Cover

For more than twenty years, Modern Control Systems has set the standard of excellence for undergraduate control systems textbooks. It has remained a bestseller because Richard Dorf and Robert Bishop have been able to take complex control theory and make it exciting and accessible to students. The book presents a control engineering methodology that, while based on mathematical fundamentals, stresses physical system modeling and practical control system designs with realistic system specifications.

ABOUT THE COVER

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About the Author

Robert H. Bishop holds the Myron L. Begeman Fellowship in Engineering in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin. A talented educator, Professor Bishop has been recognized for his contributions in the classroom with the coveted Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching. An active member of AIAA, IEEE, and ASEE, he also serves as an Associate Editor for the American Astronautical Society,s Journal of Astronautical Sciences. Dr. Bishop is a distinguished researcher with an interest in guidance, navigation, and control of aerospace vehicles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0201308649
• ISBN 13: 9780201308648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 820