Modern Control Systems offers the following features to facilitate learning: NEW! Topics and activities introduce students to the exciting and challenging field of control engineering NEW! Activities and Curriculum teach future engineers the importance of green technology design and how it minimizes pollution and improves the environment. NEW! Coverage of the evolution of the Internet of Things, a network of physical objects embedded with electronics, software, sensors and connectivity used in control engineering. Each of the devices on the network possess an embedded computer that connects to the Internet and is of great interest to control engineers. NEW! Interactive e-textboo k is now available for additional support to students. NEW! A companion website is available to students and faculty using this edition. It contains many resources including all of the m-files in the book, Laplace and z-transform tables and much more. NEW! 980 end-of-chapter exercises, problems, advanced problems, design problems, and computer problems explore all aspects of modern control systems. NEW! Skills Check sections provide three sets of problems to test students' knowledge of the chapter material.
NEW! Rear chapters present introductions into more advanced topics of robust control and digital control, as well as an entire chapter devoted to the design of feedback control systems with a focus on practical industrial lead and lag compensator structures. UPDATED! Current topics explore areas like robust control systems and system sensitivity, state variable models, controllability and observability, computer control systems, internal model control, robust PID controllers, and computer-aided design and analysis. At least one design problem in each chapter addresses the interest in design of ABET and industry. A companion website www.pearsonhighered.com/dorf is available to students and faculty using the textbook. The website contains all the m-files in the book, Laplace and z-transform tables, written materials on matrix algebra and complex numbers, symbols, units, and conversion factors, and an introduction to the LabVIEW MathScript RT Module. An icon appears in the book margin whenever there is additional related material on the website.
The Pearson eText is a complete online version of the book that includes highlighting, note-taking, and search capabilities. Frequency and time-domain methods include robust control design and an introduction to digital control systems. Coverage of computer-aided design and analysis using MATLAB® and LabVIEW MathScriptappears throughout the text and in end-of-chapter examples and problems.