Introduction to automatic control systems

This text assists readers in understanding, analyzing and designing linear control systems, using classical state-space and modern control methods.

The analysis of classical control methods specifically explores applications in response in real time and frequency domains, steady state errors, the principles of Routh, Nyquist, Bode, Nichols, Lyapunov, root locus stability and controller design tools, lead and lag controllers and PID controllers.Topics in modern control include: computer controlled systems system identification adaptive control robustness and H-infinity fuzzy controllers All the material on control methods is designed to show how they are interlinked and demonstrate inherent relation and continuity.

The work includes many practical examples which illustrate the design procedures and beneficial effects of control strategies on the performance of the 'closed loop' system.

These examples are solved using MATLAB.