Discrete-Time Control Systems

The book is in good shape, I had no issues.

Package great, Book quality very good.

Great introductory text on digital controls.

Used this book for my class and referred to it in explaining concepts and theory clearly.

This book contains almost everything you need to design complex real time control systems. Theory is very clear. It contains some basic examples in matlab, but it's not a recipe book of matlab algorithms.

This book has only one thing I can say positive about it: It has a good appendix section that revises matrix theory. As far as the actual bulk of the text goes, well, just read my review title. It does not adequately cover the "intuitive" aspects of computer control, and Ogata has a habit of implying many things but not explaining them - for example, he uses the word "filter" interchangebly with the word "difference equation" which is very dangerous when you do not elaborate on the use of digital filters for signals. Most of the text is mathematical modelling with nothing included to help the undergraduate intuitively or qualitatively understand WHY computer controls work the way they do. In addition, many of the mathematical workings included do not have adequate detail in the steps in order to help students understand what he is doing. The text is very academic, very analytical, yet quite incomplete. Writing about computer control algorithms, should be left to people who understand computers best - computer engineers. It should NOT be done by mechanical engineers, because this is what happens...

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The most useful thing about this book is the vast number of examples, fully worked out and explained. This makes it very useful for self-study as well as for use in the classroom. (It does assume a working knowledge of linear algebra.) It is probably the best digital control theory book I have seen; an excellent source for engineers wishing to understand the "physical" side of the increasingly important field of cyber-physical systems.

Very good

totally worth it! I'd recommend reading Ogata's modern control system too.

Good saller

Very good book

Great book