The Control Handbook: Control System Fundamentals

by William S. Levine (Editor)

At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that first edition was cited by the AAP as the Best Engineering Handbook of 1996.

Now, 15 years later, William Levine has once again compiled the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on control engineering. He has fully reorganized the text to reflect the technical advances achieved since the last edition and has expanded its contents to include the multidisciplinary perspective that is making control engineering a critical component in so many fields.

Now expanded from one to three volumes, The Control Handbook, Second Edition brilliantly organizes cutting-edge contributions from more than 200 leading experts representing every corner of the globe. The first volume, Control System Fundamentals, offers an overview for those new to the field but is also of great value to those across any number of fields whose work is reliant on but not exclusively dedicated to control systems. Covering mathematical fundamentals, defining principles, and basic system approaches, this volume —

Details essential background, including transforms and complex variables  Includes mathematical and graphical models used for dynamical systems  Covers analysis and design methods and stability testing for continuous-time systems  Delves into digital control and discrete-time systems, including real-time software for implementing feedback control and programmable controllers  Analyzes design methods for nonlinear systems

As with the first edition, the new edition not only stands as a record of accomplishment in control engineering but provides researchers with the means to make further advances. Progressively organized, the other two volumes in the set include:

Control System Applications Control System Advanced Methods

786 pages, Hardcover

First published April 23, 1996

Reviews

[Ioio Ioiov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely marvelous! As a control engineer, that has worked in industry and also had research positions in universities, this is an excellent collection of most of the basic (and not only basic) knowledge needed to a control engineer.

I have used the first edition and the second. The first was good, the second is better :) The only remark I have is that the examples in the first are substituted with completely new ones in the second. Which in the second is a separate book, of three books in total.

[Maheshwari · Rating 5 out of 5]

i want to read this book