Discrete-Time Control Systems  (English, Paperback, Ogata Katsuhiko)

Discrete-Time Control Systems is a comprehensive manual on design and analysis of discrete-time control systems for engineering students.

Summary Of The Book

Katsuhiko Ogata’s Discrete-Time Control Systems presents a revised edition of the book that offers an ample treatment of discrete-time control systems. Designed for specific courses on the subject, for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book offers a gradual development of the subject. It emphasizes the fundamental concepts and avoids complex mathematical arguments. Ogata kept the text lucid and clear to make it easy-to-understand for the readers. It includes in-depth explanation of state observer design, quadratic optimal control, and pole placement. The book elucidates the treatment of the pole-placement design with minimum-order observer with the help of two main approaches. These are the state-space approach and the polynomial equations approach.

Discrete-Time Control Systems is an all-inclusive book for those who need to master this subject. It includes all the required material such as step-by-step details to derive an important equation for observer design and pole placement. Moreover, students will also get to learn the proofs of theorems through this book. It is divided into eight chapters that covers topic like introduction to Discrete-Time Control Systems, state-space analysis, the z transform, quadratic optimal control systems, z-plane analysis of discrete-time control systems, pole placement and observer design, design of discrete-time control systems by conventional methods, and polynomial equations approach to control systems design.

One needs to have done an introductory course on ordinary differential equations and introductory control systems to get a better understanding of the contents provided in this book. The second edition of Discrete-Time Control Systems integrates MATLAB throughout the book. Also, the material coverage has been streamlined in Chapters 6 & 7 of this book thereby increasing the flexibility for the readers.

Some of the salient features of Discrete-Time Control Systems are that it includes detailed discussion of the theoretical background for designing control systems. It highlights the importance of MATLAB for studying discrete-time control systems. The author teaches how one can use MATLAB optimally to get numerical solutions. An additional chapter on the polynomial equations approach to the control systems design is another feature. This chapter consists of the design of model matching control systems. And lastly, the book offers numerous solved problems and instructive examples throughout.

About Katsuhiko Ogata

Katsuhiko Ogata is a prolific writer and professor Emeritus at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Minnesota.
Ogata has authored Modern Control Engineering, System Dynamics, Designing Linear Control System Design With MATLAB, Studyguide for Modern Control Engineering, Solving Control Engineering Problems With MATLAB, MATLAB for Control Engineers, and many more.

Ogata did his B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo and the University of Illinois respectively. In 1956, he did his Doctorate in 1956 in Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley. His research areas are discrete-time control systems and optimal control of complex plants.