For senior-level or first-year graduate-level courses in control analysis and design, and related courses within engineering, science, and management Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems covers the material that every engineer, and most scientists and prospective managers, needs to know about feedback control-including concepts like stability, tracking, and robustness. Each chapter presents the fundamentals along with comprehensive, worked-out examples, all within a real-world context and with historical background information. The authors also provide case studies with close integration of MATLAB throughout. Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. It will provide: *An Understandable Introduction to Digital Control: This text is devoted to supporting students equally in their need to grasp both traditional and more modern topics of digital control. *Real-world Perspective: Comprehensive Case Studies and extensive integrated MATLAB/SIMULINK examples illustrate real-world problems and applications. *Focus on Design: The authors focus on design as a theme early on and throughout the entire book, rather than focusing on analysis first and design much later.

Table of Contents:
Preface xiii 1 An Overview and Brief History of Feedback Control 1 A Perspective on Feedback Control 1 Chapter Overview 2 1.1 A Simple Feedback System 3 1.2 A First Analysis of Feedback 6 1.3 Feedback System Fundamentals 10 1.4 A Brief History 11 1.5 An Overview of the Book 17 Summary 19 Review Questions 19 Problems 20   2 Dynamic Models 23 A Perspective on Dynamic Models 23 Chapter Overview 24 2.1 Dynamics of Mechanical Systems 24 2.1.1 Translational Motion 24 2.1.2 Rotational Motion 31 2.1.3 Combined Rotation and Translation 39 2.1.4 Complex Mechanical Systems (W)** 42 2.1.5 Distributed Parameter Systems 42 2.1.6 Summary: Developing Equations of Motion for Rigid Bodies 44 2.2 Models of Electric Circuits 45 2.3 Models of Electromechanical Systems 50 2.3.1 Loudspeakers 50 2.3.2 Motors 52 2.3.3 Gears 56 2.4 Heat and Fluid-Flow Models 57 2.4.1 Heat Flow 58 2.4.2 Incompressible Fluid Flow 61 2.5 Historical Perspective 68 Summary 71 Review Questions 71 Problems 72   3 Dynamic Response 84 A Perspective on System Response 84 Chapter Overview 85 3.1 Review of Laplace Transforms 85 3.1.1 Response by Convolution 86 3.1.2 Transfer Functions and Frequency Response 91 3.1.3 The L− Laplace Transform 101 3.1.4 Properties of Laplace Transforms 103 3.1.5 Inverse Laplace Transform by Partial-Fraction Expansion 105 3.1.6 The Final Value Theorem 107 3.1.7 Using Laplace Transforms to Solve Differential Equations 109 3.1.8 Poles and Zeros 111 3.1.9 Linear System Analysis Using Matlab_ 112 3.2 System Modeling Diagrams 118 3.2.1 The Block Diagram 118 3.2.2 Block-Diagram Reduction Using Matlab 122 3.2.3 Mason’s Rule and the Signal Flow Graph (W) 123 3.3 Effect of Pole Locations 123 3.4 Time-Domain Specifications 131 3.4.1 Rise Time 132 3.4.2 Overshoot and Peak Time 132 3.4.3 Settling Time 134 3.5 Effects of Zeros and Additional Poles 137 3.6 Stability 146 3.6.1 Bounded Input—Bounded Output Stability 147 3.6.2 Stability of LTI Systems 148 3.6.3 Routh’s Stability Criterion 149 3.7 Obtaining Models from Experimental Data: System Identification (W) 156 3.8 Amplitude and Time Scaling (W) 156 3.9 Historical Perspective 156 Summary 157 Review Questions 159 Problems 159   4 A First Analysis of Feedback 180 A Perspective on the Analysis of Feedback 180 Chapter Overview 181 4.1 The Basic Equations of Control 182 4.1.1 Stability 183 4.1.2 Tracking 184 4.1.3 Regulation 185 4.1.4 Sensitivity 186 4.2 Control of Steady-State Error to Polynomial Inputs: System Type 188 4.2.1 System Type for Tracking 189 4.2.2 System Type for Regulation and Disturbance Rejection 194 4.3 The Three-Term Controller: PID Control 196 4.3.1 Proportional Control (P) 196 4.3.2 Integral Control (I) 198 4.3.3 Derivative Control (D) 201 4.3.4 Proportional Plus Integral Control (PI) 201 4.3.5 PID Control 202 4.3.6 Ziegler—Nichols Tuning of the PID Controller 206 4.4 Feedforward Control by Plant Model Inversion 212 4.5 Introduction to Digital Control (W) 214 4.6 Sensitivity of Time Response to Parameter Change (W) 215 4.7 Historical Perspective 217 Summary 217 Review Questions 218 Problems 218   5 The Root-Locus Design Method A Perspective on the Root-Locus Design Method 234 Chapter Overview 235 5.1 Root Locus of a Basic Feedback System 235 5.2 Guidelines for Determining a Root Locus 240 5.2.1 Ru