Control System Engineering - Volume II

The aim of this book is to understand: State Variable Analysis and Design: Introduction, Concepts of State, State Variables and State Model, State Models for Linear Continuous-Time Systems, State Variables and Linear Discrete-Time Systems, Diagonalization, Solution of State Equations, Concepts of Controllability and Observability, Pole Placement by State Feedback, Observer based state feedback control. Introduction of Design: the Design Problem, Preliminary Considerations of Classical Design, Realization of Basic Compensators, Cascade Compensation in Time Domain (Reshaping the Root Locus), Cascade Compensation in Frequency Domain (Reshaping the Bode Plot), Introduction to Feedback Compensation and Robust Control System Design. Digital Control Systems: Advantages and disadvantages of Digital Control, Representation of Sampled process, The z-transform, The z-transfer Function. Transfer function Models and dynamic response of Sampled-data closed loop Control Systems, the Z and S domain Relationship, Stability Analysis.