For more than thirty years, Modern Control Systems has set the standard of excellence for undergraduate control systems textbooks. It has remained a bestseller because Richard Dorf and Robert Bishop have been able to take complex control theory and make it exciting and accessible to students. The book presents a control engineering methodology that, while based on mathematical fundamentals, stresses physical system modeling and practical control system designs with realistic system specifications.

HALLMARK FEATURES:

• Provides clear exposition of the basic principles of control system design techniques using frequency and time-domain methods including robust control design and an introduction to digital control systems.
  
  
• Offers an integrated design and analysis approach to real-world engineering problems.
  
  
• Incorporates computer-aided design and analysis using MATLAB and SIMULINK throughout the text and end-of-chapter examples and problems.
  
  
• Reinforces the development of problem-solving skills with five levels of end-of-chapter problems.
  
  
• Incorporates a Sequential Design Problem feature, using a disk drive read system as the example, to highlight the main themes in each chapter and how they impact the design of a control system.
  
  
• Presents a Continuous Design Problem feature which gives students the opportunity to apply the tools and techniques presented in each chapter to a design example carried throughout the text.
  
  

NEW FEATURES:

• MATLAB and SIMULINK Updated.
  
  
• A simplification of the steps presented for sketching the root locus by hand. This is a recognition of the fact that computer-assisted root locus tools are providing greater capability for interactive design.
  
  
• A more thorough treatment of state variable design, including full-state feedback, observers, separation principle, internal models, and optimal control system design.