Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems (5th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gene Franklin, J.d. Powell, Abbas Emami-naeini
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Pages: 928
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ISBN: 0131499300
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.83
EAN: 9780131499300
ASIN: 0131499300
Publication Date: November 10, 2005
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This introduction provides an in-depth, comprehensive treatment of a collection of classical and state-space approaches to control system design. It ties the methods together so that a designer is able to pick the method that best fits the problem at hand. Includes case studies and comprehensive examples with close integration of MATLAB throughout. Clearly marks problems to indicate which section they are drawn from for easier reference. Provides a logical presentation of a control engineer’s approach to key problems (such as rejection of disturbances, improvement in steady-state errors, and better dynamic response); compares the performance of the feedback structure to that of open-loop control. A useful reference for aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineers who want to brush up on their skills in dynamic systems.
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 a useful book July 17, 2008
This text provides good coverage of the material.
One neat feature of this book (fourth edition) is intros at the beginning of each chapter that explain the motivation for learning the concepts presented in that chapter.
Note that the subject matter is not easy, so the first time controls student should be prepared to read each section of this (and any controls text for that matter) carefully - and not just skim it.
 Unnecessarily Cryptic April 30, 2008
The Good:
This text does hit on most of the topics in controls. It's manageable if you have a good instructor.
Wide breadth.
The Bad:
The writing seems to go out of its way to be unnecessarily cryptic. It performs variable changes every chance it gets, skips steps in the examples (which are light in and of themselves). The figures in the last sections link back to the first. If you find yourself saddled with a hard-to-understand instructor (foreign-language Ph.D students come to mind), get the exercises from someone else and pick up Ogata's Modern Control Engineering (I literally understood Root-Locus more from twenty minutes of reading Ogata than two hours of wrestling with this text).
Poor depth. Avoid.
A note: You WILL require MATLAB. Don't try this material without it.
Vague, poorly organized April 4, 2008
Vague, poor/loose structure, plenty of discussion but fails to teach. The material is at a high level (senior or above), but that's not my quibble with this book. There are excellent alternatives though on control systems, most notably Norman Nise (currently in 5th ed.) and Ogata. (My bacground is in ME and EE, master's level.)
Beware of the International Version February 13, 2008
Beware of the International Version it is not the exact same as the Hardcover version just with a softcover. There are less problems, and problems are numbered differently. Those are the only differences found so far, as of two weeks into the semester of an advanced controls course.
 good textbook November 1, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is a good textbook about feedback control design. A lot of examples from the engineering world are useful for undergraduate students. It well written and easy to read.
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