"Cover"--"Half title"--"Title Page" -- "Copyright Page" -- "Contents" -- "Preface to the second edition" -- "Preface" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "1 Systems, objectives and strategies" -- "Introduction" -- "Control strategies" -- "Summary" -- "2 General characteristics of feedback" -- "Modelling a feedback loop" -- "Sensitivity of closed-loop gain to changes in parameters" -- "Disturbance rejection" -- "Linearization about an operating point" -- "Summary" -- "Problems" -- "3 Modelling dynamic systems" -- "The modelling approach" -- "A first-order differential equation model" -- "An alternative description of system behaviour: frequency response" -- "An integrator model" -- "A second-order lag model" -- "Higher-order models" -- "Time delays" -- "System analysis and system identification" -- "Summary" -- "Problems" -- "4 The frequency response approach to control system design" -- "Closing the loop" -- "The Nichols chart" -- "Stability" -- "Integrating action" -- "The proportional + integral controller" -- "A design example" -- "Non-unity feedback systems" -- "A note of caution" -- "Summary" -- "Problems" -- "5 The s-plane and transient response" -- "The Laplace transform approach" -- "Calculating system response" -- "Standard models and the s-plane" -- "Higher-order systems and dominance" -- "Summary" -- "Problems" -- "6 The root-locus technique" -- "First- and second-order root loci" -- "An alternative approach" -- "Sketching simple root loci" -- "Root locus in analysis and design" -- "Summary" -- "Problems" -- "7 Steady-state performance" -- "An intuitive approach" -- "The transform approach" -- "Summary" -- "Problem" -- "8 Controllers and compensators" -- "Three-term controllers" -- "Compensators" -- "Disturbance rejection" -- "Summary" -- "Problems" -- "9 Digital control I. Discrete system" -- "Introduction" -- "Sampling and digitization