This book is a revision and extension of my 1995 Sourcebook of Control Systems Engineering. Because of the extensions and other modifications, it has been retitled Handbook of Control Systems Engineering, which it is intended to be for its prime audience: advanced undergraduate students, beginning graduate students, and practising engineers needing an understandable review of the field or recent developments which may prove useful. There are several differences between this edition and the first. • Two new chapters on aspects of nonlinear systems have been incorporated. In the first of these, selected material for nonlinear systems is concentrated on four aspects: showing the value of certain linear controllers, arguing the suitability of algebraic linearization, reviewing the semi-classical methods of harmonic balance, and introducing the nonlinear change of variable technique known as feedback linearization. In the second chapter, the topic of variable structure control, often with sliding mode, is introduced. • Another new chapter introduces discrete event systems, including several approaches to their analysis. • The chapters on robust control and intelligent control have been extensively revised. • Modest revisions and extensions have also been made to other chapters, often to incorporate extensions to nonlinear systems.

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University of Queensland, Australia

Louis C. Westphal

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Book Title: Handbook of Control Systems Engineering
Authors: Louis C. Westphal
Series Title: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1533-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7494-7Published: 31 October 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5601-1Published: 10 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-1533-3Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0893-3405
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXVI, 1063
Topics: Theory of Computation, Control and Systems Theory, Systems Theory, Control, Computer Science, general, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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