This book provides an integrated treatment for students of continuous-time and discrete-time linear and continuous-time nonlinear systems. The stress is on the interdisciplinary nature of the subject and examples have been drawn from various engineering disciplines to illustrate the basic system concepts. A strong emphasis is laid on modelling of practical systems involving hardware; control components of a wide variety are comprehensively covered. Time and frequency domain techniques of analysis and design of control systems have been exhaustively treated and their interrelationship established. The concepts and criteria of stability are progressively built and interspersed at suitable locations culminating in the generalized criteria of Liapunov and Popov. A chapter on sampled-data control systems covering analysis, stability and design has been added in this edition. Modern approaches are introduced through a full chapter on state variables for both continuous- and discrete-time systems; it includes observer and pole placement design. A new chapter on optimal control gives both transfer function and time domain approaches. The optimal linear regulator problem is treated through dynamic programming. The book ends with a chapter on nonlinear control systems and their analysis via phase-plane and describing function techniques.
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I.J. Nagrath, now Adjunct Professor and Formerly Deputy Director, BITS, Pilani. He had his B.E. degree (with Honours) from Birla College of Engineering, Pilani, Rajasthan in 1951 and M.S. from Wisconsin University (USA) in 1956. He has long teaching and research experience and also published many papers in national and international journals. He has co-authored several well accepted books including Introduction to Systems by New Age International Publishers. At present, he continues to be active in studies and writing work. M. Gopal is presently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Delhi. His teaching and research stints span over three decades at IIT, Delhi; IIT, Bombay; BITS, Pilani and REC, Jaipur. He is the author/co-author of six books on Control Engineering, a video course on Control Engineering and a large number of research publications. His current research interests are in the areas of Robust Control, Neural and Fuzzy Technologies, Process Control and Robotics.
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