1. Control Theory
| 1."Modern Control Engineering" by Ogata K
“Modern Control Engineering” Book Review: This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of control engineering. The text provides a gradual development of control theory, shows how to solve all computational problems with MATLAB, and avoids highly mathematical arguments. The book helps its seekers understand the concept with loads of examples. It is essential for the control engineers since it discusses the various important topics beginning from Laplace transform; mathematical modeling of mechanical systems, electrical systems, fluid systems, and thermal systems; transient and steady-state-response analyses, etc.
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| 2."Automatic Control Systems" by Kuo B C and Golnaraghi F
“Automatic Control Systems” Book Review: This book integrates the subject with mechatronics. It follows a revolutionary approach by actually including a physical lab. The book also doesn’t fail to provide a complete coverage of modern design tools and examples. Current mechatronics applications and how it proves itself to be useful in today’s day-to-day lifestyle, builds the motivation to learn the material. Extensive use of virtual lab software is also integrated throughout the chapters. This book is for the engineers who seek to have a strong understanding of control systems with the help of modern examples and exercises.
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| 3."Linear Control Systems Analysis and Design - Conventional and Modern" by D`Azzo J J and Houpis C H
“Linear Control Systems Analysis and Design – Conventional and Modern” Book Review: A textbook for classroom learning. It provides a complete overview of the modern control theory and conventional control system. It uses diagrams and tabulated information to help its learners learn and remember the concepts. The level of mathematics is not very high since the book was written to help undergraduates build their foundation. It also helps understand the applications of the theory. Each CADAC uses fundamental concepts to ensure the viability of a computer solution. The recent editions give MATLAB examples to enhance learning.
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| 4."Control Theory" by Torkel Glad and Lennart Ljung
“Control Theory” Book Review: This textbook covers both the important topics, Multivariate systems as well as nonlinear systems. It attempts at explaining the two systems along with its applications with the help of computer aided design platforms such as MATLAB. This book presents the relevant mathematics in simple and adequate steps. This helps build a strong foundation in the theory of the subject. The practical boundaries of the subject are explored. This textbook is written for the final year engineering graduates and postgraduates. Professional engineers will also welcome it as a core reference.
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| 5."Modern Control Theory" by Bakshi U A | |
| 6."Modern Control Theory" by William L Brogan
“Modern Control Theory” Book Review: This textbook has numerous solved examples helping build a good knowledge in the subject theoretically. Each of the set of problems are along with their text therefore establishing strong basics. It can serve as a good starting point for a student to build a mathematical maturity for control theory.The text is organized in such a way to ensure understanding of the basics.
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| 7."Control Systems Engineering (Theory and Problem)" by D P Kothari
“Control Systems Engineering (Theory and Problem)” Book Review: The book begins with the fundamentals of the subject and works with the exploration of various techniques and approaches in solving problems. It even has objective questions that help logical thinking for the solutions of the problems. The author has mostly focused on the research areas such as Load Flow Study, Application of Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Neural Networks and Differential Evaluation in Electric Power Distribution Systems.
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| 8."Control Systems: Theory and Applications" by Smarajit Ghosh | |
| 9."Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering)" by Donald E Kirk
“Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering)” Book Review: It is the study of efficiently increasing the returns from and reducing the cost of the operation of physical, social, and economic processes. This book’s target audience are undergraduates with basic understanding of the subject. It deals with three parts of the subject: dynamic programming, Pontryagin’s minimum principle, and numerical techniques for trajectory optimization. It is a go-to text for the Optimal Control Theory enthusiasts.
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| 10."Advanced control Theory" by A Nagoor Kani | |
2. Adaptive Control Theory
| 1."Robust Adaptive Control" by P Ioannou and J Sun
Book Review: The book presents fundamental techniques and algorithms in the field of adaptive control. The book demonstrates the design, analysis and application of a range of algorithms that are used to manage dynamical systems with unknown parameters. The various topics included are dynamic system models, stability, online parameter estimation, parameter identifiers, model reference adaptive control and robust adaptive laws. This book is useful for students and engineers who want to learn how to design, simulate and implement adaptive contro; schemes. The book contains many examples and is very useful for researchers in understanding long and technical proofs.
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| 2."Adaptive Control: Stability, Convergence and Robustness" by S Sastry and M Bodson
“Adaptive Control: Stability, Convergence and Robustness” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview on adaptive control. It covers topics related to stability, convergence and robustness. It focuses on linear, continuous time, single-input, single-output systems. It discusses results and techniques of analysis in the field of adaptive control. It offers a clear, conceptual presentation of adaptive methods. It enables critical evaluation of techniques and suggests avenues for development. It is written in an easy to understand language. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of engineering and sciences.
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| 3."Nonlinear Systems" by H K Khalil
Book Review: The mathematics levels build up from chapter to chapter in this book. The book is divided into four parts and they are basic analysis, feedback system analysis, advanced analysis and nonlinear feedback control. The book also contains updated information on certain concepts which are useful in nonlinear control design. The book contains chapters on expanded treatment of passivity, passivity based control, integral control, high gain feedback, recursive methods, optimal stabilizing control, lyapunov function and many more. This is a very good reference book for engineers and applied mathematicians.
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| 4."System Identification and Adaptive Control" by Manolis
“System Identification and Adaptive Control” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview on system identification and adaptive control. It discusses current trends in the development and applications of intelligent systems in engineering. It focuses on recent research results in system identification and control. It talks about recurrent neuro fuzzy and the fuzzy cognitive network models. All the chapters provide numerous illustrative examples and detailed explanation. It contains chapters on contemporary power generation, process control, and conventional benchmarking problems. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of engineering and sciences.
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| 5."Direct Adaptive Control Algorithms: Theory and Applications" by Itzhak Barkana and Kenneth Sobel
“Direct Adaptive Control Algorithms: Theory and Applications” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview on direct adaptive control algorithms. It describes a compendium of readily implementable adaptive control algorithms. It explains how these can be applied to a wide variety of engineering problems including flexible structure control, blood pressure control, and robotics. It is written in an easy to understand language. It provides numerous real-world examples for enhanced understanding of the reader. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of engineering and sciences.
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| 6."Mathematical Theory of Adaptive Control" by Jan Spalinski and Vladimir G Sragovich
“Mathematical Theory of Adaptive Control” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview on mathematical theory of adaptive control. It covers basic notions and definitions, real-valued HPIV with finite number of controls, stochastic approximation, minimax adaptive control, controlled finite homogeneous markov chains, and more. It also describes control of partially observable markov chains and regenerative processes, control of stationary processes, control of linear difference equations, and more. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of engineering and sciences.
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| 7."Theory of Self-Adaptive Control Systems" by P H Hammond
“Theory of Self-Adaptive Control Systems” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview on theory of self-adaptive control systems. It covers adaptive and optimal controllers using stochastic theory, adaptive control in biological systems, parameter estimation and modelling techniques, model reference and adaptive controllers and more. It describes adaptive controllers with parameter identification or prediction, optimal and multilevel control systems and more. It provides numerous real-world examples for enhanced understanding of the reader. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of engineering and sciences.
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| 8."Adaptive Control with Recurrent High-Order Neural Networks" by George A Rovithakis
“Adaptive Control with Recurrent High-Order Neural Networks” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview on adaptive control with recurrent high-order neural networks. It aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. It talks about new theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies and much more. It discusses the problem of manufacturing or production process scheduling. It provides numerous real-world examples for enhanced understanding of the reader. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of engineering and sciences.
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| 9."The Rational Expectation Hypothesis, Time-Varying Parameters and Adaptive Control" by P Tucci Tucci
“The Rational Expectation Hypothesis, Time-Varying Parameters and Adaptive Control” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview on the rational expectation hypothesis. It talks about time-varying parameters and adaptive control. It talks about major controversies in macroeconomics and effectiveness of stabilization policies. Part one of the book combines the strand of literature on adaptive control with that on TVP. Part two covers the linear single-equation stationary RE model estimated with the error-in-variables (EV) method. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of engineering and sciences.
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| 10."Adaptive Filtering Prediction and Control" by Graham C Goodwin and Kwai Sang Sin
“Adaptive Filtering Prediction and Control” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview on adaptive filtering prediction and control. It focuses on linear discrete-time systems and explores the natural extensions to nonlinear systems. It describes discrete-time systems in detail. It talks about the theoretical and practical aspects of a large class of adaptive algorithms. It provides numerous real-world examples for enhanced understanding of the reader. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of engineering and sciences.
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| 11."Adaptive Control" by K J Astrom and B Wittenmark
Book Review: This book is filled with loads of practical information related to digital control techniques. The book presents the topics of adaptive control, bending theory and also demonstrates their implementation to facilitate the understanding of the readers. The book has been revised and updated based on the feedback from students and other readers of the book. The book is reorganized in such a way that it very nicely presents the fundamentals and applications of digital control techniques.
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| 12."Control Theory and Systems Biology" by Pablo Iglesias and Ingalls B
“Control Theory and Systems Biology” Book Review: This book is for the students studying biological and biochemical systems. This book covers information from surveys of established material to descriptions of new developments in the field. It provides alternative modeling frameworks and a variety of applications. This book offers great information on topics like quantitative measures of dynamic behavior, modularity, stoichiometry, robust control techniques, and network identification.
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