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Summary: if I could give it zero stars, I would...
Review: This is positively the worst university textbook I have ever used, in 5 years of engineering study. Normally I get good grades and understand the material very well, but utterly failed my control course the first time through. It wasn't till after flunking that I realized that this book was the source of all my headaches. Not only is it painfully boring to read, it is disorganized and doesn't give clear explanations. This @#(%& book had my head so twisted around that I totally lost interest in even trying to study the material because it became such a daunting task. My stomach would churn when I looked at this book. Yes, the material is difficult, but that makes this text all the more dangerous for presenting it in an extra-confusing manner.Second time through the course, I started putting the pieces together with Schaum's, and another text from the library... now I view the subject from a totally different perspective. Control theory is very interesting and useful, but not if you get off on the wrong foot with it! Avoid this book! If you already own it, do the world a favour and load it into the fireplace. If you're a university prof, I urge you... DO NOT use this text for your course, or your poor students will suffer as I did!
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Summary: Tedious Tome
Review: This was the textbook for a control theory course I took as an undergraduate. It's hard to believe this text is so popular (9 editions!) since it is so tedious, delving unnecessarily into minute details of simple problems (PID controllers, e.g.) while ignoring the mathematical foundations of what is really a beautiful subject.
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Summary: I wonder 'what is wrong with this book?' The title maybe!
Review: Unless you aren't trying to learn Control Systems concepts this book is ideal for you to read. Otherwise, if you are interested in either learning the concepts or getting a higher GPA, this book is not what you think it is since you will find yourself losing the insight everytime you answer in terms of a matlab code and I guess you will never learn the concept this way!
Let me explain, the book is mainly teaching you MATLAB since the authors are devoted to teach MATLAB to anyone they see in the street! Ironically speaking, MATLAB would never make you understand the concept even worse it will blur the big picture in your mind!
To summarize this,
I would say, want to learn control systems? Well, find some control systems text like Ogata and Kuo ...etc.
Otherwise, if you are interested more in learning MATLAB , I mean that you are already familiar with control systems concepts I would say this book is ideal for you not to mention its nice exercises and problems in the end of each chapter!
However, this is a good control systems using matlab book and thus I suggest that the title of the book should be something like 'Fundamentals of Control Systems Using MATLAB'.
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Summary: DO NOT BUY!!
Review: Worst book i have ever read! All Theory No math behind the problems!
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