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Linear System Theory and Design (Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering)

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Up to this time,there are no 5 stars books in Linear Systems. However, this book is one of the best 4 stars books available for the subject. Through the book, the author sometimes assumes that you know or understand some topic, formula,...etc. without mentioning it. However,you can do it, but it may take you some time to figure out what it is. If you are good enough in linear algebra you will have no problems to handle the book up to the last page. Chapter 2 & 3 are the most important chapters in the book because they prepare you for the rest of the book. MATLAB is being used in a nice and helpful way to visualize some concepts and applications of the linear control theory. I recommend this book as a textbook for an introductory linear systems course and also for self teaching purposes.

I found this book to be inadequate at all levels. It does not go into sufficient detail for beginners, and neither does it provide rigor for the experienced controls student. Do yourself a favor and buy separate texts for the basics (like Brogan's Modern Control Theory) and for the advanced.

My overall impression with this book is: satisfactory. Though there are a more errors then desired, and a few that are pretty confusing, the majority of the book is accurate and very instructive. I would recommend this book as a reference for introductory treatment of Linear System Theory and DI just completed this book in the beginning of March. Having a Controls background I found this book both helpful and instructive, yet lacking in sufficient detailed explanation on some tough topics. Chapter 2: 'Mathematical Descriptions of Systems' was very helpful with the detailed definitions and easy examples. Chapter 3: 'Linear Algebra' is a chapter that could use expanding. Some of the topics addressed in this section are speedily discussed and rapidly completed. The first edition of this book was chided for it length. This edition must be chided for it brevity. However, when lack of explanation abounds, examples and homework problems can make up for deficient instruction. Chapters 4 through 6 are easy to follow and through in their treatment. Chapter 7, however, is another chapter where too much explanation was removed. The examples are hard to follow in this chapter, and there are a few very confusing mistakes. Chapters 8 and 9 are very well written, though confused at times. However, they yield a sufficient knowledge of the addressed topics.

My overall impression with this book is: satisfactory. Though there are a more errors then desired, and a few that are pretty confusing, the majority of the book is accurate and very instructive. I would recommend this book as a reference for introductory treatment of Linear System Theory and Design.esign.

This book will not be appreciated by a junior control student.
Senior students will be very pleased by the content of the book.
Very direct, very dense and cover all necessary aspects for a first year senior course in state-space control theory.
This book, as it should be, is very linear algebra oriented. The author places a strong review in some necessary aspects of linear algebra in order to provide the student the capability of going on with the content in the book without pulling a linear algebra book from the shelf.

I thought this book was very useless. We had a homework problem assigned (The one describing a satellite in orbit around Earth asking us to solve for its movement using Lagrange's equation in CH1 ) and found many errors in the solutions provided by Chen. I understand Chen is very good at what he does, but he is NOT the brightest in explaining and demonstrating his ideas to graduate students. His examples are very hard to follow and 2 of my fellow classmates opted for purchasing other textbooks to actually learn from. Some of these books were in linear algebra and other on modern control.

This book is only good, in my opinion, if you have the solutions manual because otherwise the problems solved within the chapter are not easy to understand. Chen skips many crucial steps stalling the reader from getting useful info required for class. I never used the solns manual; but from other classes, I have found them to be a great tool to moving swiftly through the homework and really getting experience in solving problems "the right way." The solns manual is being sold here on Amazon for $40.

As a reference I used Modern Control Engineering by Paraskevopoulos, P. N (2002) and it proved to be extremely helpful. There are also other books similar to this out there, you just have to search.

I purchased this book because it was required for my graduate course. However, I found it is full of concepts with few examples or explanations when I read it. What's more, sometimes it does neither explain some concepts in a lucid way, nor provide illustrative examples to help you to understand them. Since there are many other excellent textbooks in the field of linear system, I exactly do not recommend this one. In my opinion, Brogan's Modern Control Theory is much better than it. Actually I referred to Brogan's book most time during the semester. Though it does not include Matlab codes since it was published 20 years ago, it is still an excellent alternative if you want to enhance your knowledge in linear system.

Material in this book is very well presented in a concise and straightforward manner. However, I was unable to find some "important" things from linear system theory. For instance, Schur's determinant formula is used, but I was unable to find anything on the Schur complement in this book (which I thought was strange).

Some other less common topics are given excellent attention, such as coprime factorizations and decoupling compensator design. This book also offers criteria for the stability of linear time varying systems which I have not seen elsewhere.

Overall, this is a cool book. It is probably impractical to expect that one book should have everything about linear systems and control in one place. This book explains the things that it explains very well, so it gets 5 stars.

The product came in time, was in great condition, well packed, it was very very well handled by amazon and the third party seller.
The price was very good as well. It was half the cost of what it is in my university bookstore. So this pretty much guarantees that I will get atleast my money's worth when I sell it(If I plan to).

The book is used which can be told from the cover, but very clean inside and the quality is very good.

The arriving time is slower than the expected date. Very slow.
Book condition is new.