This book presents developments in analysis and design techniques for control systems. Included are exciting results for feedback systems using complex variable methods, the important concept of robustness in controller design and the increasingly important topic of decentralized control for large scale systems. These and many other contributions illustrate the great activity and rapid progress which has taken place in the subject over the past few years. Only by bringing these contributions together under one cover can the practising engineer in industry and indeed the engineer in university or polytechnic keep fully informed on the 'state of the art' on a number of different fronts. Application of the theoretical developments and practical aspects of the subject are not forgotten; analysis and design of a nuclear boiler and some direct digital control system design procedures are but two topics discussed in the present book. Several of the chapters are followed by problems on the subject matter and worked solutions to most of these problems are given at the end of the book. This aspect will find favour with many readers since such contributions are often a great help in the understanding of the subject matter.
This book presents developments in analysis and design techniques for control systems. Included are exciting results for feedback systems using complex variable methods, the important concept of robustness in controller design and the increasingly important topic of decentralized control for large scale systems. These and many other contributions illustrate the great activity and rapid progress which has taken place in the subject over the past few years. Only by bringing these contributions together under one cover can the practising engineer in industry and indeed the engineer in university or polytechnic keep fully informed on the 'state of the art' on a number of different fronts. Application of the theoretical developments and practical aspects of the subject are not forgotten; analysis and design of a nuclear boiler and some direct digital control system design procedures are but two topics discussed in the present book. Several of the chapters are followed by problems on the subject matter and worked solutions to most of these problems are given at the end of the book. This aspect will find favour with many readers since such contributions are often a great help in the understanding of the subject matter.
David Bell obtained his B.Sc. in Mathematics (1955) from the
University of Manchester and his M.Sc, Ph.D. degrees (1962,1970) in
Mathematics from the University of London. From 1955 to 1961 he
worked as a research mathematician for the aircraft firm A. V. Roe
and Co. Ltd., followed by a period as lecturer in Mathematics at
the Bristol College of Science and Technology (1961-1964), and the
University of Bath (1964-1967). His present joint appointment
between the Department of Mathematics and the Control Systems
Centre at UMIST was taken up as a lecturer in 1967 and senior
lecturer in 1973.
Peter Cook obtained his B.A. in Mathematics (1962) from the
University of Cambridge and his Ph.D. (1966) in Theoretical Physics
from the University of Manchester. He was then appointed lecturer
in Applied Mathematics (1968) at the University of Kent. From 1971
to 1974 he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of
Mathematics at the Loughborough University of Technology. Since
1974 he has been a lecturer in Control Engineering at the Control
Systems Centre, UMIST.
Neil Munro obtained his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (1962) from
Strathclyde University and his M.Sc. (1967) and Ph.D. (1969) in
Control Engineering from the University of Manchester. He was then
appointed as a lecturer (1969), senior lecturer (1973) and
Professor of Applied Control Engineering (1979) in the Control
Systems Centre, UMIST. He has also spent some 10 years in industry
as an electronics technician, development engineer and design
engineer working for Barr and Stroud Ltd., Ferranti,
Parkinson-Cowan Measurement and ICL.
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