Linear Control System Analysis and Design

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Linear Control System Analysis and Design*
John D'Azzo and Constantine H. Houpis
Reviewer: M. MANSOUR performance index, transformation to the control canonical

Institut f'tirAutomatik und lndustrielle Elektronik, ETH Zentrum, form, and eigenstructure assignment in the controller and
CH-8092 Ziirich, Switzerland. observer design of MIMO systems.
It is mentioned that some of the material given in the chapter
THIS book tries to combine the classical methods of analysis and on Lyapunov stability is not exact, e.g. the definition of stability
synthesis of linear control systems and the so-called modern in the sense of Lyapunov. On the other hand, the material on
methods. While it gives a fairly complete coverage of the classical eigenstructure assignment appears, as far as I know, for the first
methods leaning on the authors' well-known previous book time in a book and is given a fairly good treatment.
(Feedback Control System Analysis and Synthesis), it deals with The chapter on digital control systems is relatively short and
the modern methods in a less systematic way, leaving open some leaves open many important problems. The book should either
important problems, such as some aspects of optimal control have been restricted to linear continuous systems or digital
theory, stability of digital control systems, and their analysis and control systems should have been adequately dealt with.
synthesis in the time domain. It is understandable that such a A book which can be considered as directed to the same level is
book cannot be complete, however, the main problems should be Analysis and Synthesis of Linear Control Systems by C. T. Chen
dealt with instead of other less important ones. (1975). However, a direct comparison between the two books is
After a short motivating introduction, the book deals with difficult, because of the difference in size. In my opinion, while
writing the system equations for different types of systems, such Chen's book deals with modern control theory in a good way,
as electrical, mechanical, thermal, hydraulic ones using physical D'Azzo and Houpis' book includes some recent material such as
laws, and gives a short description of the Lagrange method. The eigenstructure assignment.
solution of the system equations and determining the steady- In spite of the criticism, the book is valuable for undergraduate
state response using classical methods, state equations and students, especially because of the nice treatment of classical
Laplace transformation is dealt with in the next two chapters. control theory and the numerous examples given throughout the
System representation is explained using block diagrams, text.
simulation diagrams, signal flow graphs, state transition signal
flow graphs and transformation to diagonal and companion About the reviewer
forms. The determination of system types, steady-state error M. Mansour was born in Damietta, Egypt. He received B.Sc. and
coefficients, stability using Routh criteria, root locus frequency M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Alexandria
response representation using Bode, Polar and Nichols plots, University, Alexandria, and a Dr.sc.techn. degree in electrical
stability using Nyquist criteria and the correlation between time engineering from ETH Ziirich, Switzerland, when he was
response, root locus and frequency response, and compensation awarded the silver medal of ETH. He was assistant professor in
using root locus and frequency response plots is explained in electrical engineering at Queen's University, Canada. He has
detail in Chapters 7-11, where a great part is based on the old been professor and head of the Department of Automatic
book.
Control at ETH Ziirich since 1968, dean of electrical engineering
From Chapters 12 to 18 modern control theory is introduced 1976-1978 and director of the Institute of Automatic Control
in the form of state variable feedback, controllability and and Industrial Electronics, ETH Ziirich 1976-1978 and
observability, observers, Lyapunov second method, algebraic 1980-1982. He was visiting professor at the IBM Research
Riccati equation, determination of the weighting matrices in the Laboratories, San Jose, California, at the University of Florida,
Gainesville, and at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is also
president of the Swiss Federation of Automatic Control, member
* Linear Control System Analysis and Design, second edition, of the Council and Treasurer of IFAC. His fields of interest are
by J. D'Azzo and C. H. Houpis. Published by McGraw- control systems, especially stability theory and digital control,
Hill-Kogakusha, Ltd., Tokyo (1981). 751 pp. stability of power systems, and digital filters.
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Automatica,Vol.19,No. 5, p. 587, 1983 0005-1098/83$3.00+ 0.

Linear Control System Analysis and Design*

John D'Azzo and Constantine H. Houpis

Reviewer: M. MANSOUR performance index, transformation to the control canonical

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