Belanger P. Control Engineering. A Modern Approach

Saunders College Publishing, 1995. — xv, 471 p. — ISBN 978-0030134890.An exciting new text for the advanced controls course, Control Engineering: A Modern Approach breaks with tradition by introducing a number of new topics - robust controls, for example - and omitting a number of topics dated by the use of digital computers. Belanger gives the student a real introduction to control engineering because he covers material at the introductory level that is truly new and up-to-date. Introductory controls students in electrical, mechanical, and aeronautical engineering benefit from the text's practical emphasis on modeling and simulation supported by recurring case examples and problems. This approach - used only in Control Engineering: A Modern Approach - gives the student a much deeper physical insight into observable and controllable models. The text is designed to be used with MatLAB software, and refers extensively to it throughout, emphasizing the computer as a regular and indispensable tool of the successful control engineer.
This text is intended to give students a real introduction to control engineering - covering material at the introductory level that is truly new and up-to-date.
This textbook is written for a one-semester first course in Control Engineering. It is intended for an audience of students with a prior course in Signals and Systems so that, in particular, Laplace transforms and Bode plots are assumed to be known.