Modern control systems / Richard C. Dorf and Robert H. Bishop

Includes bibliographical references.

History of Automatic Control -- Two Examples of the Use of Feedback -- Control Engineering Practice -- Examples of Modern Control Systems -- Automatic Assembly and Robots -- The Future Evolution of Control Systems -- Engineering Design -- Control System Design -- Design Example: Turntable Speed Control -- Design Example: Insulin Delivery Control System -- Sequential Design Example: Disk Drive Read System -- Mathematical Models of Systems -- Differential Equations of Physical Systems -- Linear Approximations of Physical Systems -- The Laplace Transform -- The Transfer Function of Linear Systems -- Block Diagram Models -- Signal-Flow Graph Models -- Computer Analysis of Control Systems -- Design Examples -- The Simulation of Systems Using Matlab -- Sequential Design Example: Disk Drive Read System -- State Variable Models -- The State Variables of a Dynamic System -- The State Differential Equation -- Signal-Flow Graph State Models -- Alternative Signal-Flow Graph State Models -- The Transfer Function from the State Equation -- The Time Response and the State Transition Matrix -- A Discrete-Time Evaluation of the Time Response -- Design Example: Printer Belt Drive -- Analysis of State Variable Models Using Matlab -- Sequential Design Example: Disk Drive Read System -- Feedback Control System Characteristics -- Open- and Closed-Loop Control Systems -- Sensitivity of Control Systems to Parameter Variations -- Control of the Transient Response of Control Systems -- Disturbance Signals in a Feedback Control System -- Steady-State Error.

New featues of this edition include the use of SIMULINK.