There is a need for a fundamental textbook on sampled-data control theory and applications that emphasizes the use of the small digital computer as a controller. The implementation of a digital controller allows design flexibility and system extendability in an efficient and effective manner as compared to analog components. The realtime adaptability of mode changes due to plant parameter variations, environmental changes, and requirements modifications usually require a digital computer.
This text accomplishes the objective of providing sampled-data control system topics mainly for upper-level undergraduate and first-year graduate students. It effectively merges and interrelates the two general areas which are vital to a practicing digital control engineer: discrete and sampled-data control theory and computer engineering. This textbook provides a clear, understandable, logical development and motivated account that spans sampled-data control theory with computer engineering as an integrated entity.
1. Introduction
2. Continuous-Time Control-System Response Characteristics
3. Linear Systems and the Sampling Process
4. Discrete Systems Modeling
5. Discrete Control Analysis
6. Discerte Transform Analysis (Approximations)
7. Principles of Signal Conversion and Measurement
8. Digital-Control-System Implementation
9. Random Processes in Digital Control Systems
10. Finite Word Length and Compensator Structure
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