DIGITAL CONTROL AND STATE VARIABLE METHODS [electronic resource] /

Details the development of models for signal processing devices in digital control; through a selected set of case studies, provides knowledge of digital control system hardware, including microcomputers, shaft encoders, stepping motors, and programmable logic controllers; present up-to-data treatment of frequency-domain methods for digital design; incorporates state variable analysis and design methods for continuous-time and discrete-time systems; gives detailed account of describing function and phase-plane methods for nonlinear systems; new chapter (Chapter 10) on Nonlinear Control Systems, for which no general techniques are available, each problem has to be considered individually; two new chapters (11&12) -- Neural Networks for Control and Fuzzy Control; two appendices on MATLAB 6.1 depicting its application to Conventional control and to Neural Fuzzy control; new sections on Programmable Logic Controllers (chapter 3), System identification and Adaptive Control (Chapter 7).