Control Theory

Professor Ron Leigh achieved an HND and the Freshgate Prize from Sheffield Polytechnic, and MSc from University of London and a Doctorate in Control Engineering from the University of Cambridge. His career has been spent either in designing and implementing control systems for the process industries or in teaching and researching control topics. His current appointment is Professor Associate in Control Engineering at Brunel University. Previous appointments include as Director of the Industrial Control Centre at the University of Westminster and Head, Control Systems Research Laboratory, London. His publications include eight books and an extensive range of research papers.

Chapter 1: Control concepts: a non-mathematical introduction
Chapter 2: Control design ideas: a non-mathematical treatment
Chapter 3: Synthesis of automatic feedback control loops: a more quantitative view
Chapter 4: How the Laplace transform greatly simplifies system representation and manipulation
Chapter 5: Frequency response methods
Chapter 6: Mathematical modelling
Chapter 7: Limits to performance
Chapter 8: Some practical aspects of control design, justification and implementation
Chapter 9: Linearisation
Chapter 10: Multivariable linear processes
Chapter 11: Discrete time and computer control
Chapter 12: State estimation: the Kalman filter and prediction
Chapter 13: Non-linearity
Chapter 14: Optimisation
Chapter 15: Distributed systems
Chapter 16: An introduction to robust control design using Hinfinity methods
Chapter 17: Neural networks, fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, learning systems intelligent systems
Chapter 18: Review - the development of control theory and the emergence artificial intelligence (AI) techniques
Chapter 19: References and further reading