Description
Book SynopsisThe classic text, now completely up to date
This Second Edition of State Variables for Engineers is completely updated to reflect both the many changes in the field of systems and control and the fact that today''s first-year graduate students are well prepared in the background skills and techniques needed to handle this material. The book begins with an introduction to the basic concepts behind time domain techniques, comparisons between state variable feedback and classical output feedback, and a discussion of the concepts of observability and controllability.
The authors stress the importance of studying matrices and linear spaces by offering state variable representations for continuous linear systems in matrix form along with the solution to the resulting linear matrix differential equation. This treatment demonstrates how these basic linear algebra tools are related to the state variable analysis of linear systems.
This new edition retains thorough coverage of the ei
Trade Review"...a welcome addition to the set of books on this subject." (International Journal of Robust and Linear Controls, Vol. 12, 2002)
Table of ContentsTime Domain Techniques.
State Variable Representation of Systems.
Matrices, Linear Spaces, and Linear Systems.
State Variables and Linear Continuous Systems.
State Variables and Linear Discrete-Time Systems.
Canonical Forms for Representing Linear Systems.
Observers and Controllers.
Identification and Estimation.
Introduction to Stability Theory and Lyapunov's Method.
Appendices.
Index.
