The real world awaits you. This book prepares you.

From rockets to robots, control systems play a major role in today’s technology. You’ll find them in applications in nearly every field—electrical, mechanical, aerospace, biomedical, and chemical engineering. Control systems engineering is a real-world discipline, and you need a text that prepares you to design for that real world.

Control Systems Engineering, now in its Fifth Edition, takes a practical approach to control systems engineering. Presenting clear and complete explanations, the text shows you how to analyze and design feedback control systems that support today’s modern technology.

By working with the same physical system in each chapter, the book’s progressive case studies give you a realistic view of each stage of the control design process while a combination of qualitative and quantitative explanations provide insight into the design of parameters and system configurations. Best of all, you’ll get extensive practice in using MATLAB, Simulink, and the SISO Design Tool—industry standards that you will use in your future career.

You’ll find this Fifth Editionespecially valuable for these features:

• Case studies that use the same system progressively, chapter after chapter, to show the analysis and design process with clarity are presented.
• Helpful skill-assessment exercises, numerous in-chapter examples, review questions, and problems.
• Tutorials on the latest versions of MATLAB, the Control System Toolbox, Simulink^®, the Symbolic Math Toolbox, and MATLAB’s graphical user interface (GUI) tools.
• “What if” experiments that expand your knowledge and skills.
• Companion Web site with computer programs for use with MATLAB, additional appendices, and complete solutions to skill-assessment exercises.
• Illustrations from the book available at http://www.wiley.com/college/nise

Once again Nise provides readers with an up-to-date resource for analyzing and designing real-world feedback control systems. Throughout the Fifth Edition, emphasis is placed on the practical application of control systems engineering. It offers a balanced treatment of the hardware and software sides of the development of embedded systems along with in-depth discussions on the embedded systems development lifecycle. Readers will also find an accessible introduction to hardware debugging and testing in the development process.

Norman S. Niseteaches in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In addition to being the author of Control Systems EngineeringProfessor Nise has contributed to the CRC publications The Engineering Handbook, The Control Handbook,and The Electrical Engineering Handbook.

Preface.

1. Introduction.

2. Modeling in the Frequency Domain.

3. Modeling in the Time Domain.

4. Time Response.

5. Reduction of Multiple Subsystems.

6. Stability.

7. Steady-State Errors.

Root Locus Techniques.

9. Design Via Root Locus.

11. Design Via Frequency Response.

12. Design Via State Space.

13. Digital Control Systems.

Appendix A. List o Symbols.

Appendix B. MATLAB Tutorial.

Appendix C. MATLAB's Simulink Tutorial.

Glossary.

Answers to Selected Problems.

Credits.

Index.

Appendix D. MATLAB's GUI Tools Tutorial, Web site.

Appendix E. MATLAB's Symbolic Math Toolbox Tutorial, Web site.

Appendix F. Matrices, Determinants, and Systems of Equations, Web site.

Appendix G. Control System Computational Aids, Web site.

Appendix H. Derivation of a Schematic for a DC Motor, Web site.

Appendix I: Derivation of the Time Domain Solution of State Equations, Web site.

Appendix J. Solution of State Equations for t0, Web site.

Appendix K. Derivation of Similarity Transformations, Web site.

Appendix L. Root Locus Rules: Derivations, Web site.

Solutions to Skill-Assessment Exercises Web Site.

Control Systems Engineering Tool box, Web site.

Lecture Graphics, Web site.

Cyber Exploration Laboratory Experimental Web site.