Digital Control System Analysis and Design

The book cover and title listed is the third edition, but I was sent the 1st edition

Yup, a brief glimps at this book will tell you it won't be a smooth ride like Franklin's 'Digital Control of Dynamic systems'. I have the old edition of franklin's book and it's almost half the size of this book. Well let's not judge the book by its cover. It's a lot more comprehensive then Franklin's, and is composed of 15 chapters which include (in addition to Franklin's standard topics) : *An entire chapter on Stability Analysis Techniques *An entire chapter on Pole-Assignment Design and State Estimation *And most importantly: the book can also be used as a text (or reference text, at least) on Digital Filters (As the author mentions in the preface), Three chapters are completely devoted to Digital filters: Ch11: Sampled Data Transformation of Analog Filters Ch12: Digital filter Structures Ch13: Microcomputer Implementation of Digital Filters I've taken this book in a senior level course on digital control systems, and most of the students in class were convinced that the book was too advanced for an undergraduate course, and I could't agree better. I think an exposition to the concepts of difference equations, sampling ,and the z-transform is to be done at an earlier stage (like in a course on Continuous and Discrete Signals and Systems) and not to be first introduced in this book, which seems to assume mathematical fluency and maturity of the reader which is beyond most senior level students. Advanced book. Graduates yes, Undergrads no. That sums up my opinion.

I used this and a few other books for supplementary study when I took a graduate level course in digital controls. In terms of intelligibility, this book was more helpful than any other, and was substantially superior to the class text.