Control Systems Theory and Analysis
An Outline of Feedback Control, Digital Signal Processing, and Analog Circuit AnalysisBy Sanjay Khatri
Length12h 5m
About this audiobook
Most control texts bury the idea under transform algebra. This one tells you what each plot means before it derives anything.
Control Systems Theory and Analysis is a working outline of feedback control, digital signal processing and analog circuit analysis, written for readers who want to understand what a control system is doing before they wrestle with the mathematics behind it. The book opens with the circuit analysis and op-amp building blocks you need to model real hardware, then builds transfer functions and reads time-domain responses in terms of damping, overshoot and settling time. Stability is introduced through Routh-Hurwitz and pole locations, steady-state error through system type, and design through root locus, Bode plots, gain and phase margin and the Nyquist criterion.
From there the book moves into practical compensation: lead, lag and PID tuning, with windup and derivative-filtering fixes that matter when a controller meets a real plant. The later chapters extend the same ideas into state-space pole placement, observers, sampling, the z-transform and digital filtering. A single motor loop runs through every method, so you can compare designs honestly instead of learning each technique in isolation.
What you will learn:
• Circuit analysis and analog building blocks, including op-amp configurations used to model real hardware
• Laplace transforms, transfer functions and the modelling of physical systems
• Time-domain response: damping, overshoot, rise time and settling time
• Stability by Routh-Hurwitz and pole location, and steady-state error by system type
• Root locus, frequency response, Bode plots, gain and phase margin, and the Nyquist criterion
• Lead, lag and PID compensation, including windup and derivative-filtering fixes
• State-space methods: pole placement and observer design
• Sampling, the z-transform and digital control loops
• Digital signal processing techniques applied to control systems
Written for electrical and mechanical engineering students and for self-taught engineers who want a clear, method-by-method outline they can return to while studying or designing, this book keeps the focus on what each tool tells you about a system and when to reach for it.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology
Length12 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Control Systems Theory and Analysis
2Foreword
3Preface
4About This Book
5Chapter 1: Circuit Analysis You Actually Need
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61.1 Charge, Current, Voltage and the Sign Rules
71.2 Kirchhoff’s Laws and Node Analysis
81.3 Mesh Analysis and Source Transformation
91.4 Thevenin and Norton Equivalents
101.5 Phasors, Impedance and AC Power
111.6 Measurement, Loading and Practical Limits
12Chapter 2: Analog Building Blocks
132.1 The Ideal Op-Amp and the Two Golden Rules
142.2 Inverting, Non-Inverting and Differential Configurations
152.3 Integrators, Differentiators and the Analog PID Skeleton
162.4 Passive and Active Filters
172.5 RC, RL and RLC Transients and Resonance
18Chapter 3: Laplace Transforms and Transfer Functions
193.1 Definition, Transform Pairs and Properties
203.2 Inverse Transforms by Partial Fractions
213.3 Transfer Functions, Poles and Zeros
223.4 The DC Motor Position Loop as a Running Example
233.5 Initial and Final Value Checks and Model Sanity
24Chapter 4: Modelling Physical Systems
254.1 Electrical Networks as LTI Systems
264.2 Translational and Rotational Mechanics
274.3 Thermal and Fluid Models
284.4 Block Diagram Algebra and Signal Flow Graphs
294.5 Disturbances, Noise Injection and Model Uncertainty
30Chapter 5: Time-Domain Response
315.1 First-Order Response and the Time Constant
325.2 Second-Order Response, Damping and Natural Frequency
335.3 Specifications: Rise Time, Overshoot, Settling Time
345.4 Dominant Poles, Zeros and Model Reduction
35Chapter 6: Stability
366.1 Bounded-Input Bounded-Output Stability
376.2 The Routh-Hurwitz Criterion
386.3 Stability of the Motor Position Loop with Proportional Gain
396.4 Relative Stability and the Distance to the Boundary
40Chapter 7: Steady-State Error
417.1 System Type and the Error Constants
427.2 Disturbance Rejection and Error from Reference and Load
437.3 Integral Action and Error Elimination
44Chapter 8: Root Locus
458.1 The Root Locus Equation and Basic Rules
468.2 Asymptotes, Breakaway Points and Departure Angles
478.3 Designing Gain for a Damping Specification
48Chapter 9: Frequency Response and Bode Plots
499.1 Sinusoidal Steady-State Response and the Frequency Response Function
509.2 Bode Magnitude and Phase Asymptotes
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