- Hardcover: 833 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 9 edition (3 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130306606
- ISBN-13: 978-0130306609
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 19.3 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 659,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This text is designed for an introductory undergraduate course in control systems for engineering students.
There is very little demarcation between aerospace, chemical, electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering in control system practice: therefore this text is written without any bias towards one particular discipline. Thus, this book will be equally useful for all engineering disciplines and, perhaps, will assist in illustrating the utility of control engineering as a controlled discipline.
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For more than twenty-five years, Modern Control Systems has set the standard of excellence for undergraduate control systems textbooks. It has remained a bestseller because Richard Dorf and Robert Bishop have been able to take complex control theory and make it exciting and accessible to students. The book presents a control engineering methodology that, while based on mathematical fundamentals, stresses physical system modeling and practical control system designs with realistic system specifications.
HALLMARK FEATURES:
- Provides clear exposition of the basic principles of control system design techniques using frequency-and time-domain methods including robust control design and an introduction to digital control systems.
- Offers an integrated design and analysis approach to real-world engineering problems.
- Incorporates computer-aided design and analysis using MATLAB and SIMULINK throughout the text and end-of-chapter examples and problems.
- Reinforces the development of problem-solving skills with five levels of end-of-chapter problems.
- Incorporates a Sequential Design Problem feature, using a disk drive read system as the example, to highlight the mail themes in each chapter and how they impact the design of a control system.
- Presents a Continuous Design Problem features which gives students the opportunity to apply the tools and techniques presented in each chapter to a design example carried throughout the text.
- Offers a supplement, which emphasizes modeling and the design process using MATLAB and SIMULINK.
NEW FEATURES:
- Introduces the use of SIMULINK, a valuable tool for control system simulation, including an appendix, which explains the basis.
- MATLAB Updated.
- New Companion Website for Professors and Students, including the latest MATLAB M-files, practice exams, student exercises with instant grading and other study aids.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having come to the subject of control a complete novice, this book was invaluable. Everything is clearly explained in an enlightening and entertaining style. Especially useful was the references to matlab, an essential tool in understanding what can be a confusing subject.
0 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book provided little advanced infomation and knowledge. I was also boring in the manner that it presented the information, and put me to sleep.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Depends on what you are looking for
26 Oct 2003
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If you want to learn about Modern Control Systems the first time around then use a book written by Ogata, Kuo or Nise. These three authors have some of the best books on this subject that you will ever see.
As for this book
GOOD:
The Matlab part of the book I would give 4 stars. It is pretty good and lets you get acquainted with the control toolbox. There are a wide variety of problems in the book and it has a lot of design problems for the reader. Problems include exercise problems, regular problems (beats me why he didn't put them together), advance problems and Matlab Problems. If you already know the subject then it could possibly be a good design book.
BAD:
Worst book I have ever read. This book offers some of the worst explanations I have ever seen in a book. It is nearly impossible to do the problems with the information given to you. Reading the book is like solving an exercise problem in itself. A lot of times the math is skipped so you have no idea how he got to the answer. While other books happened to spend 4 pages on a topic, Dorf managed to compress it into a useless paragraph. Also, Dorf expects you to clairvoyantly know what a definition is. When reading through a chapter he talks about something without telling you what it is. Somehow he expected you to know that at the end of the chapter, AFTER you've read everything he'll give you a definition list. Very few exercise problems have answers to them so if you are doing something wrong then you will not know. If you are looking for self-study from this book then start crying now because you will throw over 100 bucks in the garbage.
The most definitively annoying thing about the book is how it references other books. Dorf commonly gives you a sentence on a topic and then references the sentence to another book. Those sentences are meaningless and explain nothing, which gave me the impression that I was supposed to go to one of the hundreds of referenced books to learn what he was talking about.
IN SUM:
The only people who will like this book are the ones who already know the subject. I found that after I read Modern Control Engineering by Ogata and understood the subject, I appreciated a FEW of the examples Dorf gave, even though I could find a slew of books that could cover that material better. If you are a teacher looking to make this your class's book, reconsider because your students will not learn the subject.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Do not buy this book
31 July 2002
Format:Hardcover
This is one of the worst books I have ever read (well, I have only read the first 4 chapters and do not want to continue). It is not just boring, disorganized, and full of errors and inconsistencies. Its biggest problem is that it discourages thinking and real understanding. Don't be fooled by the long lists of various kinds of problems at the end of each chapter. Their sole purpose appears to be turning your brain into a robot. The materials covered by the book are not difficult at all from a mathematical point of view (I have a background in theoretical physics) but the authors managed to make them hard by giving bad explanations or no explanation. If your goal is to memerize some rules and pass exams, you might like this book. However, if you can think and actually want to learn something, do not buy this book.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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11 Feb 2003
Format:Hardcover
Not once in all my university courses have I had a text that is this frustrating. It presents results without justification, it uses examples with no explanation, it weighs a ton and yet refers you to their website on every other page because the necessary material isn't even included in the book. If you have a university/college course that requires this text PLEASE do your whole campus a favor and tell the prof. to change to something else.
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