The Control Handbook Control System Fundamentals, Second Edition

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

Mathematical FoundationsOrdinary Linear Differential and Difference Equations, B.P. LathiThe Fourier, Laplace, and z-Transforms, Edward W. KamenMatrices and Linear Algebra, Bradley W. DickinsonComplex Variables, C. W. Gray Models for Dynamical SystemsStandard Mathematical Models, William S. Levine, James T. Gillis, Graham C. Goodwin, Juan C. Agüero, Juan I. Yuz, Harry L. Trentelman, and Richard HillGraphical Models, Dean K. Frederick, Charles M. Close, and Norman S. Nise Analysis and Design Methods for Continuous-Time SystemsAnalysis Methods, Raymond T. Stefani and William A. WolovichStability Tests, Robert H. Bishop, Richard C. Dorf, Charles E. Rohrs, Mohamed Mansour, and Raymond T. StefaniDesign Methods, Jiann-Shiou Yang, William S. Levine, Richard C. Dorf, Robert H. Bishop, John J. D’Azzo, Constantine H. Houpis, Karl J. Åstr¨om, Tore H¨agglund, Katsuhiko Ogata, Masako Kishida, Richard D. Braatz, Z. J. Palmor, Mario E. Salgado, and Graham C. Goodwin Digital ControlDiscrete-Time Systems, Michael Santina and Allen R. StubberudSampled Data Systems, A. Feuer and Graham C. GoodwinDiscrete-Time Equivalents to Continuous-Time Systems, Michael Santina and Allen R. StubberudDesign Methods for Discrete-Time, Linear Time-Invariant Systems, Michael Santina and Allen R. StubberudQuantization Effects, Michael Santina, Allen R. Stubberud, and Peter StubberudSample-Rate Selection, Michael Santina and Allen R. StubberudReal-Time Software for Implementation of Feedback Control, David M. Auslande, John R. Ridgely, and Jason C. JonesProgrammable Controllers, Gustaf Olsson Analysis and Design Methods for Nonlinear SystemsAnalysis Methods, Derek P. AthertonDesign Methods, R. H. Middleton, Stefan F. Graebe, Anders Ahlén, and Jeff S. Shamma