Sourcebook Of Control Systems Engineering

This book fills the gap between standard control systems textbooks and advanced monographs for researchers. The coverage of control systems topics is broad, though it emphasizes linear time - invariant dynamic systems, and it is sub-divided into a large number of self-contained chapters to allow easy use as a reference. The "Sourcebook of Control Systems Engineering" concentrates on engineering realities such as how much things cost and the size of computer programs for simple algorithms. It gives information on hardware for sensing and actuation, of special systems such as PLCs and PID controllers, of the engineering of real systems from coverage of SISO theories and of the special characteristics of computers, their programming, and their potential interactions into systems. Engineers and graduate and undergraduate students will find the "Sourcebook of Control Systems Engineering" a valuable reference, reviewing essential theory and providing the sort of practical engineering information which other texts too often exclude. This book should be of interest to engineers in control, electrical and mechanical engineering.