ABSTRACT

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.

    chapter |106 pages

    SECTION I: Mathematical Foundations

    chapter |128 pages

    SECTION II: Models for Dynamical Systems

    chapter |212 pages

    SECTION IV: Digital Control

    chapter |24 pages

    Index

    chapter |4 pages

    Half Title

    chapter |1 pages

    Title Page

    chapter |1 pages

    Copyright Page

    chapter |4 pages

    Contents

    chapter |2 pages

    Preface to the Second Edition

    chapter |2 pages

    Acknowledgments

    chapter |2 pages

    Editorial Board

    chapter |2 pages

    Editor

    chapter |6 pages

    Contributors

    chapter |183 pages

    Section I: Automotive

    chapter |95 pages

    Section II: Aerospace

    chapter |206 pages

    Section III: Industrial

    chapter |57 pages

    Section IV: Biological and Medical

    chapter |46 pages

    Section V: Electronics

    chapter |45 pages

    Section VI: Networks

    chapter |233 pages

    Section VII: Special Applications

    chapter |4 pages

    Half Title

    chapter |1 pages

    Title Page

    chapter |1 pages

    Copyright Page

    chapter |6 pages

    Contents

    chapter |2 pages

    Preface to the Second Edition

    chapter |2 pages

    Acknowledgments

    chapter |2 pages

    Editorial Board

    chapter |2 pages

    Editor

    chapter |8 pages

    Contributors

    chapter |80 pages

    SECTION II: Kalman Filter and Observers

    chapter |116 pages

    SECTION V: Adaptive Control

    chapter |55 pages

    SECTION VII: Stability

    chapter |206 pages

    SECTION VIII: Design

    chapter |40 pages

    SECTION IX: System Identification

    chapter |198 pages

    SECTION X: Stochastic Control