Front Cover -- Advanced Control Engineering -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Control Engineering -- 1.1 Historical review -- 1.2 Control system fundamentals -- 1.3 Examples of control systems -- 1.4 Summary -- Chapter 2. System Modelling -- 2.1 Mathematical models -- 2.2 Simple mathematical model of a motor vehicle -- 2.3 More complex mathematical models -- 2.4 Mathematical models of mechanical systems -- 2.5 Mathematical models of electrical systems -- 2.6 Mathematical models of thermal systems -- 2.7 Mathematical models of fluid systems -- 2.8 Further problems -- Chapter 3. Time Domain Analysis -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Laplace transforms -- 3.3 Transfer functions -- 3.4 Common time domain input functions -- 3.5 Time domain response of first-order systems -- 3.6 Time domain response of second-order systems -- 3.7 Step response analysis and performance specification -- 3.8 Response of higher-order systems -- 3.9 Further problems -- Chapter 4. Closed-Loop Control Systems -- 4.1 Closed-loop transfer function -- 4.2 Block diagram reduction -- 4.3 Systems with multiple inputs -- 4.4 Transfer functions for system elements -- 4.5 Controllers for closed-loop systems -- 4.6 Case study examples -- 4.7 Further problems -- Chapter 5. Classical Design in the s-Plane -- 5.1 Stability of dynamic systems -- 5.2 The Routh-Hurwitz stability criterion -- 5.3 Root-locus analysis -- 5.4 Design in the s-plane -- 5.5 Further problems -- Chapter 6. Classical Design in the Frequency Domain -- 6.1 Frequency domain analysis -- 6.2 The complex frequency approach -- 6.3 The Bode diagram -- 6.4 Stability in the frequency domain -- 6.5 Relationship between open-loop and closed-loop frequency response -- 6.6 Compensator design in the frequency domain.

6.7 Relationship between frequency response and time response for closed-loop systems -- 6.8 Further problems -- Chapter 7. Digital Control System Design -- 7.1 Microprocessor control -- 7.2 Shannon's sampling theorem -- 7.3 Ideal sampling -- 7.4 The z-transform -- 7.5 Digital control systems -- 7.6 Stability in the z-plane -- 7.7 Digital compensator design -- 7.8 Further problems -- Chapter 8. State-Space Methods for Control System Design -- 8.1 The state-space-approach -- 8.2 Solution of the state vector differential equation -- 8.3 Discrete-time solution of the state vector differential equation -- 8.4 Control of multivariable systems -- 8.5 Further problems -- Chapter 9. Optimal and Robust Control System Design -- 9.1 Review of optimal control -- 9.2 The Linear Quadratic Regulator -- 9.3 The linear quadratic tracking problem -- 9.4 The Kalman filter -- 9.5 Linear Quadratic Gaussian control system design -- 9.6 Robust control -- 9.7 H2- and H∞- optimal control -- 9.8 Robust stability and robust performance -- 9.9 Multivariable robust control -- 9.10 Further problems -- Chapter 10. Intelligent Control System Design -- 10.1 Intelligent control systems -- 10.2 Fuzzy logic control systems -- 10.3 Neural network control systems -- 10.4 Genetic algorithms and their application to control system design -- 10.5 Further problems -- Appendix 1. Control System Design Using Matlab -- Appendix 2. Matrix Algebra -- References and further reading -- Index.