Control Systems Engineering, 5th Edition [Hardcover]

Norman S. Nise (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471794759 | ISBN-13: 978-0471794752 | Publication Date: December 10, 2007 | Edition: 5

Control Systems Engineering, now in its Fifth Edition, takes a practical approach to control systems engineering. Presenting clear and complete explanations, the text shows you how to analyze and design feedback control systems that support today's modern technology.

By working with the same physical system in each chapter, the book's progressive case studies give you a realistic view of each stage of the control design process while a combination of qualitative and quantitative explanations provide insight into the design of parameters and system configurations. Best of all, you'll get extensive practice in using MATLAB, Simulink, and the SISO Design Tool--industry standards that you will use in your future career.

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The real world awaits you. This book prepares you.

From rockets to robots, control systems play a major role in today’s technology. You’ll find them in applications in nearly every field—electrical, mechanical, aerospace, biomedical, and chemical engineering. Control systems engineering is a real-world discipline, and you need a text that prepares you to design for that real world.

Control Systems Engineering, now in its Fifth Edition, takes a practical approach to control systems engineering. Presenting clear and complete explanations, the text shows you how to analyze and design feedback control systems that support today’s modern technology.

By working with the same physical system in each chapter, the book’s progressive case studies give you a realistic view of each stage of the control design process while a combination of qualitative and quantitative explanations provide insight into the design of parameters and system configurations. Best of all, you’ll get extensive practice in using MATLAB, Simulink, and the SISO Design Tool—industry standards that you will use in your future career.

You’ll find this Fifth Edition especially valuable for these features:

• Case studies that use the same system progressively, chapter after chapter, to show the analysis and design process with clarity are presented.
• Helpful skill-assessment exercises, numerous in-chapter examples, review questions, and problems.
• Tutorials on the latest versions of MATLAB, the Control System Toolbox, Simulink^®, the Symbolic Math Toolbox, and MATLAB’s graphical user interface (GUI) tools.
• “What if” experiments that expand your knowledge and skills.
• Companion Web site with computer programs for use with MATLAB, additional appendices, and complete solutions to skill-assessment exercises.
• Illustrations from the book available at http://www.wiley.com/college/nise

About the Author

Norman S. Nise teaches in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In addition to being the author of Control Systems Engineering, Professor Nise has contributed to the CRC publications The Engineering Handbook, The Control Handbook, and The Electrical Engineering Handbook.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 880 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 5 edition (December 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471794759
• ISBN-13: 978-0471794752
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #205,381 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book is almost the best except for one thing..., December 25, 2004

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Ahmed K. Atwa - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Control Systems Engineering, 4th Edition (Hardcover)

This text is the good control systems textbook model to learn from, as an author. Nise is made for undergraduates to master control systems concepts in both state-space and transform domains. Generally, it lacks a lot of details in state-space area; it is almost a complete coverage of classical control basic concepts.

The organization of the text is not just good. It makes this text more like the only well organized text you ,may, find every 10 texts you read!

However, the text assumes you have a background in the basic differential equations and laplace transform. It connects the mathematics you know with the system model in an outstanding way that really make you visualize the system dynamics just perfectly! Surly, that depends, somehow, on the reader's motivation toward learning the concept. Although the text doesn't cover thoroughly the state-space approach, it connects both domains in your mind that make you able to see the system poles in the time domain! You are absolutely right to say 'So what!, I know all about Eignvalues and eigenvectors!', it shows you it if you don't. So, if you do know the subject well then maybe you shouldn't buy this introductory level text at all!

The bottom line is: I strongly recommend this text for classical control systems course during the undergraduate level. However, I would only recommend to use it in the state-space course as a supplementary text besides some good state-space text like Brogan.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very well written but a bit too "Mickey Mouse", October 5, 2005

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Michael D. Sadowitz "guyver_86" (Las Vegas, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Control Systems Engineering, 4th Edition (Hardcover)

For an applied math (and physics, to an extent) text, it is surprisingly interesting! The chapters are pretty easy reads but the coverage is thorough. In fact, it's too thorough at times. Nise has a little habit of taking a relatively simple concept and beating it to death. However, this is a good thing if you're a slow learner.

My one complaint is the "Mickey Mouse" factor. The problems are just too simple on the whole. I enjoy simple problems, but there aren't enough challenging ones. Even the long "practical" problems are generally pretty easy. Even so, the use of MATLAB in many of the problems is excellent.

A great feedback and control systems book. I highly recommend it.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well presented and easy to understand, February 7, 2003

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Boon Leong Yeap (Longmont, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Control Systems Engineering, 3rd Edition (Textbook Binding)

This book is excellent!!. It is well presented and easy to understand. It did not assume that the reader knows the basic and explains the essence that is needed to follow through the subject. Control System is a subject that I had problem grasping while doing my undergraduates because I was thrown with all the mathematical formulas and left to make sense out of them. In short I did not learn much from school. Control system was a dark side for me until I discovered this book. Now I understand more than before and I am read it like a story book. This book made me helped so much that I am compelled to write this review. I wish I had this book earlier. This is the kind of book that I have been searching for all this while