Techniques of Model Based Control

Rating:
Summary: Stuffy, confusing, and without "flow".
Review: This review is based on pre-publication manuscripts that Dr. Brosilow used in his undergraduate Process Control course in Chemical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. I was in his class. Dr. Brosilow was a poor lecturer and his manuscripts were poorer.

Each chapter seemed far too unrelated to the others. It did not seem to build a concrete body of knowledge but rather to drift from topic to topic without clear purpose. How is Model State Feedback related to other implementations of model based control? When, practically speaking is it best to use a particular control regime in a particular process? I wish I could say I learned these things from the text, but I certainly did not. Additionally, the text and the problems were usually very abstract. Only rarely would all the mathematics be incorporated into a description or problem involving an actual chemical process.

I hope that the published edition has been heaviliy edited and altered. It is with that hope that I award two stars to this book. Based on my experience with a (pre-publication form of) this book, I would have to give it only a single star.

Rating:
Summary: Stuffy, confusing, and without "flow".
Review: This review is based on pre-publication manuscripts that Dr. Brosilow used in his undergraduate Process Control course in Chemical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. I was in his class. Dr. Brosilow was a poor lecturer and his manuscripts were poorer.

Each chapter seemed far too unrelated to the others. It did not seem to build a concrete body of knowledge but rather to drift from topic to topic without clear purpose. How is Model State Feedback related to other implementations of model based control? When, practically speaking is it best to use a particular control regime in a particular process? I wish I could say I learned these things from the text, but I certainly did not. Additionally, the text and the problems were usually very abstract. Only rarely would all the mathematics be incorporated into a description or problem involving an actual chemical process.

I hope that the published edition has been heaviliy edited and altered. It is with that hope that I award two stars to this book. Based on my experience with a (pre-publication form of) this book, I would have to give it only a single star.