At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that first edition was cited by the AAP as the Best Engineering Handbook of 1996.

Now, 15 years later, William Levine has once again compiled the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on control engineering. He has fully reorganized the text to reflect the technical advances achieved since the last edition and has expanded its contents to include the multidisciplinary perspective that is making control engineering a critical component in so many fields.

Now expanded from one to three volumes, The Control Handbook, Second Edition brilliantly organizes cutting-edge contributions from more than 200 leading experts representing every corner of the globe. They cover everything from basic closed-loop systems to multi-agent adaptive systems and from the control of electric motors to the control of complex networks. Progressively organized, the three volume set includes:
Control System Fundamentals Control System Applications Control System Advanced Methods

Any practicing engineer, student, or researcher working in fields as diverse as electronics, aeronautics, or biomedicine will find this handbook to be a time-saving resource filled with invaluable formulas, models, methods, and innovative thinking. In fact, any physicist, biologist, mathematician, or researcher in any number of fields developing or improving products and systems will find the answers and ideas they need. As with the first edition, the new edition not only stands as a record of accomplishment in control engineering but provides researchers with the means to make further advances.

Contents

VOLUME ONE: CONTROL SYSTEM FUNDAMENTALS

Preface

Acknowledgment

Editor

Contributors

SECTION I Mathematical Foundations

Ordinary Linear Differential and Difference Equations, B.P. Lathi

The Fouriece, and z-Transforms, Edward W. Kamen

Matrices and Linear Algebra, Bradley W. Dickinson

Complex Variables, C. W. Gray

SECTION II Models for Dynamical Systems

Standard Mathematical Models, William S. Levine, James T. Gillis, Graham C. Goodwin, Juan C. Agüero, Juan I. Yuz, Harry L. Trentelman, and Richard Hill

Graphical Models, Dean K. Frederick, Charles M. Close, and Norman S. Nise

SECTION III Analysis and Design Methods for Continuous-Time Systems

Analysis Methods, Raymond T. Stefani and William A. Wolovich

Stability Tests, Robert H. Bishop, Richard C. Dorf, Charles E. Rohrs, Mohamed Mansour, and Raymond T. Stefani

Design Methods, Jiann-Shiou Yang, William S. Levine, Richard C. Dorf, Robert H. Bishop, John J. D’Azzo, Constantine H. Houpis, Karl J. Åstr¨om, Tore H¨agglund, Katsuhiko Ogata, Masako Kishida, Richard D. Braatz, Z. J. Palmor, Mario E. Salgado, and Graham C. Goodwin

SECTION IV Digital Control
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