Customer Reviews

Optimal Control Systems (Electrical Engineering Series)

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

A very useful guide for professional and graduate students involved in control systems.
It is more of a theoretical book and requires prior knowledge of basic control systems. The problems are more mathematically based and there is a lack of linkage to practical use.
The examples are great and can be easily implemented in Matlab.
Also, the author is quite approachable.

The book is very readable. It is one of
the best books in this area and very appropriate for self-study.
The only things bothers me are the unnormal mathematical conventions like:

(df/dx)_(evaluated ax x*) is shown as
(df/dx*) kind-things.

Hence, I gave 4 stars instead of 5 :)

This is a well-written book for new learners on optimal control. I am using it as a textbook for a modern control class and find it is of great help. The context is easily readable. The mathematic derivation is carefully elaborated by the author. The author chooses insightful examples and explains them well. Useful matlab codes have been included in the book. A limitation of this book seems to be the miss of the stochastic optimal control Systems (Kalman filter). However, the author said is going to be included in the next edition.