Reddit reviews Modern Control Systems (12th Edition)

I learned from Modern Control Systems by Bishop and Dorf, I thought it was pretty good. Here is the newest version.

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Control-Systems-12th-Edition/dp/0136024580

This is the book written by my former controls professor.

I'm going to be frank, this is probably the worst engineering article I've ever read. I may be biased because I majored in control systems, but this article doesn't even remotely cover what would be a control systems 101 introductory lecture, it is littered with grammatical and technical inaccuracies, and is completely devoid of technical depth that someone who would bother reading the article would be interested in. It is also obvious that the submitter is also affiliated with the site, not that I have a problem with shameless self promotion but this is simply bad content.

For those who would like a good introduction to control systems, this is IMOH the best text on the subject: Modern Control Systems, R.H. Bishop. (Amazon,Torrent)

hmmm well there are a lot of books that could be recommended depending on how you want your guitar tuner to work and what sort of methods you will be using to model your system as well as control it, do you want books on signal processing as well ? do you want discrete control? state space ? or just a book that will cover most bases? Either way I have put down a couple of basic texts that could help.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Control-Systems-Richard-Dorf/dp/0136024580

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Control-Engineering-International-Version/dp/0137133375/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382300545&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=control+ogatta

You are looking at an area called Control System Engineering. If you are familiar with the Laplace transform I strongly recommend reading through this book.

http://www.amazon.ca/Modern-Control-Systems-12th-Edition/dp/0136024580

Even if you do not understand the Laplace transform this book covers the material initially using traditional Differential Equations. You can get a copy online through resourceful means.

this is just about the only book that was precribed in my mechatronics programme

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Control-Systems-12th-Edition/dp/0136024580

cant say i actually used it apart from some last minute cram and highlighter abuse just before the exam - most of what i know and do just came from real work experience

Control Systems Engineering, 6th Ed, Nise

Modern Control Systems, 12th Ed, Dorf & Bishop

Automatic Control Systems, 9th Ed, Golnaraghi & Kuo

Control Systems Design: An Introduction To State-Space Methods

Control Handbook, 2nd Ed

Those are some that I have. The Nise book is excellent, the Dorf book is as well, it was my primary text for Controls I & II, supplemented by the Kuo book. The latter has more on digital controls. All of those three focus primarily on classical control theory and methods, but the Nise book goes into more depth on modern methods. I got the state-space methods book because it's more focused. The Control Handbook is a beastly collection, but it's very broad, hence not possessed of much depth. It's more of a reference than a text.

If you want to dive deeply into PID control, look no further than Akstrom and Hagglund's works on the subject, it doesn't get much better.

Source: I'm a degreed EE that specialized in control systems and a licensed control systems PE.