Mandal A.K. Introduction to Control Engineering

New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers, 2006.— 633p.— ISBN: 978-81-224-2414-0The book is intended for an introductory undergraduate course in control systems for
engineering students. The numerous problems and examples have been drawn from the disciplines
of electrical, electronics, chemical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering. This will help
students of one discipline with the opportunity to see beyond their own field of study and thereby
broaden their perceptual horizon. This will enable them to appreciate the applicability of control
system theory to many facets of life like the biological, economic, and ecological control
systems.
This text presents a comprehensive analysis and design of continuous-time control systems
and includes more than introductory material for discrete systems with adequate guidelines
to extend the results derived in connection with continuous-time systems. The prerequisite
for the reader is some elementary knowledge of differential equations, vector-matrix analysis
and mechanics.
Numerous solved problems are provided throughout the book. Each chapter is followed
by review problems with adequate hints to test the reader’s ability to apply the theory involved.
Transfer function and state variable models of typical components and subsystems have been
derived in the Appendix at the end of the book.