Feedback Control Systems (4th Edition) by Charles L. Phillips and Royce D. Harbor

Feedback Control Systems (4th Edition)

Features

Cover Type: Hard Cover with 658 pages

Published by: Prentice Hall

Edition: 4th Edition August 19, 1999

Written in: English

ISBN 10 Number: 0139490906

ISBN 13 Number: 978-0139490903

Book Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1.2 inches

Weighs: 2.4 pounds

The publisher, Prentice-Hall Engineering/Science/Mathematics
A compact exploration of the behavior of dynamic systems and how this behavior may be changed by the use of feedback. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Back Cover Copy

This book offers a thorough analysis of the principles of classical and modern feedback control. Organizing topic coverage into three sections-linear analog control systems, linear digital control systems, and nonlinear analog control systems-helps the reader understand the difference between mathematical models and the physical systems that the models represent.

FEATURES/BENEFITS

NEW-SIMULINK simulation program-Illustrates feedback effects.

Helps demonstrate design examples and problems.

NEW-MATLAB's symbolic math is employed to verify transforms and to solve differential equations directly.
NEW-Computer verification of results.
- Exposes users to a short MATLAB program when working almost all examples and problems.
NEW-Design procedures implemented in MATLAB m-files.
NEW-Improved practical application examples.

Allows the reader to better relate the mathematical developments to physical systems.

Chapter-end problems.

Most chapter-end problems lead the reader through a second method of the solution, so that they can verify results.

Transfer-function and state-variable models.

Familiarizes users with both models for the analysis and design of linear analog systems.

System stability discussion-Along with the Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion.
Coverage of nonlinear system analysis methods.

Emphasizes describing-function analysis, linearization, and the state-plane analysis.

Early coverage of expanded frequency-response design criteria.

Helps explain closed-loop systems.

Digital Control Systems.

Provides the reader with the basic principles of digital control.

Time-scaling differential equations section.
Maximum text/course flexibility

Reader Reviews
As is usually the case with Prentice Hall books, you are left puzzled about how to use the information presented in the chapter to solve even the first Practice Problem in each chapter. The chapter uses simple examples, and then expects you to solve more complicated systems without explaining how the concepts can be extended to cover them. The authors also provide no answers to the practice problems, so to check any of your work you must find someone that knows the correct answer and compare your work with theirs. It seems every time the author attempts to extend some help by preworking part of a problem they make a typo... With only one simple example as guidance there is no room for typos. On the plus side, the material in the book is well selected. If you are working on control systems, you will find these topics helpful, so the book does deserve a star, but only one. I do not recommend this book or its publisher, Prentice Hall; especially to anyone trying to independent study this material. Comment | | (Report this)

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