A textbook for engineering students who have had one course in conventional feedback control systems. Presents both established and innovative methods of incorporating computers into closed-loop dynamic systems control, combining conventional transfer function design and state-variable concepts. An accompanying disk (3.5" for IBM-compatible) contains the Digital Control Designer software for solving some highly complex problems. The date of the first edition is not mentioned. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
This work presents traditional methods and current techniques of incorporating the computer into closed-loop dynamic systems control, combining conventional transfer function design and state variable concepts. Digital Control Designer - an award-winning software program which permits the solution of highly complex problems - is available on the CRC Press Website at http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9780824789145. This edition: supplies new coverage of the Ragazzini technique; describes digital filtering, including Butterworth prototype filters; and more.