This book provides a theoretical framework for feedback control system design that encapsulates the key issues and may be used to solve a variety of real-world issues.
With a focus on single input and output systems, it keeps topics approachable for students with restricted backgrounds by emphasizing the relationship between new methods and classical control theory in its studies of current breakthroughs in the area.
The work is designed for electrical engineering students taking a senior course over one semester or a graduate-level course.
The first few chapters serve as a basic introduction to feedback design. The performance/stability robustness tradeoff, a full definition of the control design program, and the loopshaping graphical design technique are among the topics covered. The description of the loopshaping technique is expanded in later chapters, which further link it to ideas of optimality. In the latter chapters, a mathematical strategy for multivariable systems is presented that examines controller design via optimization.
