Digital Control System Analysis and Design (3rd Edition) [Hardcover]

Charles L. Phillips (Author), H. Troy Nagle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 17, 1994 | ISBN-10: 013309832X | ISBN-13: 978-0133098327 | Edition: 3

This revision of the best selling book for the digital controls course features new running applications and integration of MATLAB, the most widely used software in controls. Coverage of root locus design and the Fourier transform have also been increased.

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This revision of the best-selling text in digital controls is a significant update with the integration of MATLAB software and new coverage in several areas.

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This revision of the best-selling book in digital controls is a significant update with the integration of MATLAB software and new coverage in several areas.

FEATURES:

• integrates the most widely used software tool in the controls field—MATLAB—throughout the book in both examples and problems
• short MATLAB programs included in many examples throughout
• MATLAB programs from examples are also available free of charge allowing the reader to experiment and learn to use MATLAB more quickly
• motivates the reader with several running applications throughout the book. Simple physical systems are introduced in one chapter and then used again later to illuminate more advanced material. These applications include: control system of a satellite, antenna tracking and pointing systems, robotic control system, and a temperature control system
• approximately 400 problems are included, all of which have been revised in the third edition. Roughly one fourth of the problems are entirely new!
• a great number of examples are used throughout the book to further illuminate and reinforce the material. Over 130 worked examples are used in total
• a brief review of the Fourier Transform is now included to aid in understanding the effects of sampling a signal-See sec 3.5
• coverage of the root-locus design method is clarified and expanded in chapter 8
• improved descriptions of the Mason's gain formula See Appendix II
• verification of results if presented as optional material. Verification of work is generally modeled in most examples.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 704 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (November 17, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013309832X
• ISBN-13: 978-0133098327
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #633,575 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars discrete time for idiots, December 10, 2001

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This review is from: Digital Control System Analysis and Design (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

I am just completing a course in discrete time systems, with this book as the textbook. Besides mediocre instructure from the professors, this course's main detraction is this book. There are very few derivations or explanations for many of the formulas, which tend to help me stay interested in the material. Phillips and Nagle have done a terrible job and I feel that I will have to relearn the material when I get to grad school. This book is written from the standpoint that the reader is an experienced engineer who has been working for years; it attempts to make extensions from the analog world to the digital world, and does so very badly. Why my professors chose this book, I will never know. There are very few examples within the chapters, and no answers for any of the problems. As a final note, the book is full of typos and errors. Whatever you do, don't buy this book!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for Masters students only, October 26, 2006

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Abraham "MS in EE" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Control System Analysis and Design (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

Yup, a brief glimps at this book will tell you it won't be a smooth ride like Franklin's 'Digital Control of Dynamic systems'. I have the old edition of franklin's book and it's almost half the size of this book.

Well let's not judge the book by its cover.

It's a lot more comprehensive then Franklin's, and is composed of 15 chapters which include (in addition to Franklin's standard topics) :

*An entire chapter on Stability Analysis Techniques

*An entire chapter on Pole-Assignment Design and State Estimation

*And most importantly: the book can also be used as a text (or reference text, at least) on Digital Filters (As the author mentions in the preface), Three chapters are completely devoted to Digital filters:

Ch11: Sampled Data Transformation of Analog Filters

Ch12: Digital filter Structures

Ch13: Microcomputer Implementation of Digital Filters

I've taken this book in a senior level course on digital control systems, and most of the students in class were convinced that the book was too advanced for an undergraduate course, and I could't agree better. I think an exposition to the concepts of difference equations, sampling ,and the z-transform is to be done at an earlier stage (like in a course on Continuous and Discrete Signals and Systems) and not to be first introduced in this book, which seems to assume mathematical fluency and maturity of the reader which is beyond most senior level students.

Advanced book. Graduates yes, Undergrads no. That sums up my opinion.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Let a classmate buy it., August 22, 2002

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"whowantsit" (Boston, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Digital Control System Analysis and Design (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

Do not expect to learn anything from this book. The examples have holes. It will have you flipping between 6 different places in the book when it references other pages. The instruction assumes too much prior experience. It's the most frustrating book I've ever owned to supplement the dryest class I've ever taken.