Introduction to Feedback Control

Feedback control is present in every aspect of modern life, from simple house thermostats that maintain comfortable indoor temperatures to complex devices that maintain the position of communications satellites in space. Feedback control is also a crucial part of almost all engineering systems. Designing feedback systems requires a rigorous understanding of linear systems as well as a number of input/output controller design methods. The purpose of this book is to provide just such a rigorous introduction to input/output controller design for linear systems. For greater clarity, explanations and most examples are confined to single-input-single-output, although generalizations are also made from these examples to more complex multi-input-multi-output systems. What Reviewers Said About Introduction to Feedback Control: "It is well-written, covers the topics, includes MATLAB, is simple and accessible to senior-level students, it will certainly be considered for adoption." --Robert Paz, Department of Electrical Engineering, New Mexico State University "This author is unusually readable and clear. I enjoy the nice examples used to illustrate the theory. The examples are terrific." --Alan Edelman, Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMorris, Kirsten is the author of 'Introduction to Feedback Control', published 2001 under ISBN 9780125076609 and ISBN 0125076606.