Modern Control Systems (12th Edition) 12th Edition

This book is very good for students and aspirants, whose speciality is automatic control.All main part of automatic control was described with careful attention.Dignity of this book is many good examples with matlab program.I must say that writing such books is very difficult. You must keep balance betweentheory and practice, between strict and undestanding.This book is very good example solution of this problem.Very good book!

Much cheaper than the original one. Although there is some words I can't read, but it will not trouble me.

Dorf's Modern Control Systems is a good book. It explains what a control system is, and it takes us from classical to modern controls within several hundred pages. It has a mass amount of well made diagrams and charts, that make the problems clear. It has example after example, and, though the book's primary example is a disk reader, these examples range from chemistry to aerospace.

This book has a lot of information in it. It also has a lot of applications of the topics which is very nice. However, the examples in the book are far and few which makes it difficult to understand exactly what's going on in the application examples. The concept of control systems is very complicated and dense...

This book is pretty good. The wording and content appear to be put together quite well. The only thing I would suggest is a brush-up on Laplace transforms. There isn't much review in this book. Mind-you, I am only in Chapter 5, so things may get better or worse as I progress.)

Paperback version, only B&W print. Looks like a textbook from the 1970s, with a price like a textbook from the 70s, but content from 2017.

I had to buy this book for the controls class I'm taking right now and I must say this is easily one of the worst textbooks I've ever used. The chapters are way too dense. You're literally asked to learn 130 pages worth of material in Chapters 1&2 combined. For an introductory chapter, that's a lot of to ask of anyone who is new to a subject. The book would benefit immensely from asking problems (with solutions) throughout each chapter so you can slowly digest the concepts in a systemic manner. The examples are pretty terrible in my opinion as they are not very straight forward and presented with tons of equations but little context. Also, very rarely do they mirror the end-of-chapter questions, so you can't even use them to see if you are doing the problems correctly. It's clear that this series needs a serious trimming to cut out a lot of text and just display things in a clear concise manner. Instead of exposes of text, just get to the meat of the chapters with straight-forward examples that ramp up in difficulty. Overall, my experience with the book is like taking a Dragon kick from Bruce Lee, a Haymaker from Chuck Liddell and getting electrocuted simultaneously.Edit: 4/13/2013We have been using this this textbook all semester and my original review still holds. The examples continually prove to be awful in ways that make you wonder if there was even an editor to this textbook. I doubt they ever really asked a student honestly to give them feedback because anyone who isn't a lobotomized eggplant or sycophant would tell the writers this book is garbage. The explanations are lacking to the nth degree and the author clearly thinks himself "a clever person" by asking problems that cover corner cases WITHOUT COVERING THEM IN THE TEXT. That would be okay if you were provided fully-explained solutions in the back of the book so you could struggle for a bit and then learn it, but you aren't so the author is just a straight-up jerk at worst and a terrible writer at best. Overall, this book is pure rubbish and I feel sympathy for the birds that lost their home due to the tree being cut down to print this absolute piece of fecal matter.

I bought this book for an undergraduate controls class I am taking and must say it is a pretty bad book. Having had plenty of schooling under my belt (4 yrs bachelors and now finishing up graduate school) I am still amazed at why professors gravitate towards certain books. This book now in its 12 edition is difficult to follow, and the examples within the chapters don't provide enough detail or insight for the student to gain an in-depth understanding of the subject matter. Worse, the problems at the end of the chapters dont provide solutions (many books will have solutions to odd problems for example) that leaves the student unsure of whether he/she is doing the work right. Many of you will probably end up having to buy this book for class, if you do, or if you want a book to learn controls on your own, I would much more recommend a used copy of Norman S Nise Controls system engineering.