Feedback and Control for Everyone

This well structured, intriguing and motivating book presents the basic ideas and understanding of control, signals and systems for readers interested in engineering and science. Through a series of examples that are regularly revisited from different perspectives, the book explores both the theory...

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Main Authors: Albertos, Pedro. (Author), Mareels, Iven. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
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505 0 # |a Introduction -- Analogies -- Feedback and Control in Life Applications -- Signal Analysis -- Systems and Models -- Stability, Sensitivity and Robustness -- Feedback -- The Control Subsystem -- The Control Subsystem Components -- Control Design -- Benefits of Control -- A Look at the Future. 
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