This book/disk package is designed specifically for those learning MATLAB and control systems for the first time. It provides a set of ready-to-use M-files - minimizing the amount of previous MATLAB knowledge required, thus allowing students to focus on solving the control system problems at hand. This edition provides two CSAD toolboxes (on disk) - one compatible with MATLAB version 4, and one compatible with MATLAB version 3.5, also streamlining the presentation of theory to focus on the software and its use. Software features include: an improved "pmake" function; replaced "tddesign" and " fddesign" functions with "pidesign" and "lldesign"; adds state-variable design options to "svdesign"; revises frequency domain plotting functions "bplot, mvpplot," and "plrplot" to automatically choose an appropriate frequency range for plots; improves user input of transfer functions and state variable descriptions; adds a powerful interpolation menu item; revises the partial fraction expansion function "pfe" to include more cases; and consolidates zooming in and out in all plotting functions.
