Provide significant coverage on two-degree-of-freedom control
Add Kharitonov robust stability results of polynomials
Discuss in detail the effects of non-minimum phase zeros on the system performance and their relationship with overshoot and undershoot
Introduce a Routh table method for computing the 2-norm of a signal
In the frequency domain analysis, the authors introduce a completely new method of visualizing frequency responses from the Riemann sphere, in addition to the classical Bode diagram, Nyquist plot, and Nichols chart.
Remove the material on the signal flow graph covered in many classical control textbooks
1 Overview
2 Modeling and Simulation
3 Stability and Stabilization
4 Time-Domain Analysis
5 Root-Locus Method
6 Frequency-Domain Analysis
7 Classical Design in Frequency Domain
8 Performance and Robustness
9 Optimal and Robust Control
A Laplace Transform
B Matrices and Polynomials