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OPTIMAL CONTROL APPLICATIONS & METHODS, VOL.

6, 419 (1985)

BOOK REVIEW

CONTROL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, I. J . Nagrath Laplace transforms, some elementary matrix


and M. Gopal, Wiley, New York, 1983. algebra and techniques for the determination of
Price: f 11.40 roots of algebraic equations constitute the
material in the appendices.
This textbook offers a comprehensive, traditional The problems, for which answers are given,
introduction to control engineering at a very and the illustrative examples have been drawn
modest cost. The book covers a wide range of from various engineering applications making the
topics including modelling, a discussion of feed- book suitable for engineering students of any
back and sensitivity, control system components discipline.
and hardware (excluding computers), classical A minor complaint concerns the reference lists
analysis and design techniques, state variable given at the end of each chapter: only a very few
analysis and design, optimal control and non-l of these references cite work published after 1975.
linear systems. In this (second) edition, the It is unfortunate that the authors did not use the
authors have added new chapters on sampled data opportunity of revising the text to direct readers’
systems and optimal control, and extended attention to the many excellent books which have
several chapters, notably those on state variable appeared more recently.
analysis and non-linear systems. The approach is Nevertheless I can confidently recommend the
very practical, the emphasis being on applications book as a text for use in teaching control options
rather than theory. Many results are stated in undergraduate engineering courses or as an
without proof and thus only modest demands are introductory text for postgraduate students.
made on the reader’s mathematical knowledge. R. G. CAMERON
Standard results in the theory of Fourier and University of Bradford

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