Feedback Control of Computing Systems

JOSEPH L. HELLERSTEIN, YIXIN DIAO, and SUJAY PAREKH are researchers at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York. They are also adjunct professors at Columbia University, where they are using this book to teach a class on feedback control to computer science students. DAWN M. TILBURY is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

• Preface. PART I: BACKGROUND.1. Introduction and Overview.PART II: SYSTEM MODELING.2. Model Construction.3. Z-Transforms and Transfer Functions.4. System Modeling with Block Diagrams.5. First-Order Systems.6. Higher-Order Systems.7. State-Space Models.PART III: CONTROL ANALYSIS AND DESIGN.8. Proportional Control.9. PID Controllers.10. State-Space Feedback Control.11. Advanced Topics.Appendix A: Mathematical Notation.Appendix B: Acronyms.Appendix C: Key Results.Appendix D: Essentials of Linear Algebra.Appendix E: MATLAB Basics.References.Index.

"..does excel at familiarizing computer scientists and practitioners with control-theoretic concepts and the idea of feedback...greatly enhanced by the exercises and extended examples."  (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, April 2007) "The book is intensely practical…interesting and useful…" (Computing Reviews.com, January 10, 2005)