Control Engineering - An introduction with the use of Matlab

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Control engineering courses have been given in universities for over fifty years. In fact it is just fifty years since I gave my first lectures on the subject. The basic theoretical topics taught in what is now often referred to as classical control have changed little over these years, but the tools which can be used to support theoretical analysis and the technologies used in control systems implementation have changed beyond recognition. I was lucky enough in the early days to have access to one of the first digital computers in a UK university, but programming was elementary, input was paper tape and output results, obtained often after a considerable delay, were just numbers on paper, which had to be laboriously plotted if one needed a graph. Simulations were done on analogue computers, which although having some nice features, had many deficiences.