This is a book about the use of digital computers in the real-time control of dynamic systems such as servomechanisms, chemical processes, and vehicles that move over water, land, air, or space. The material requires some understanding of the Laplace transform and assumes the reader has studied a first course in linear feedback controls. The special topics of discrete and sampled-data system analysis are introduced, and considerable emphasis is given to the z-transform and the close connections between the z-transform and the Laplace transform.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Linear, Discrete, Dynamic-Systems Analysis: The z-
Transform
Chapter 3 Sampled-Data Systems
Chapter 4 Discrete Equivalents to Continuous Transfer Function:
The Digital Filter
Chapter 5 Design of Digital Control Systems Using Transform
Techniques
Chapter 6 Design of Digital Control Systems Using State-Space
Methods
Chapter 7 Quantization effects
Chapter 8 System Identification
Chapter 9 Multivariable and Optimal Control
Chapter 10 Sample Rate Selection
,etc.