Book excerpt: Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Apply a state-space approach to modern control system analysis and design Written by an expert in the field, this concise textbook offers hands-on coverage of modern control system engineering. Modern Control: State-Space Analysis and Design Methods features start-to-finish design projects as well as online snippets of MATLAB code with simulations. The essential mathematics are presented along with fully worked-out examples in gradually increasing degrees of difficulty. Readers will receive “just-in-time” math background from a comprehensive appendix and get step-by-step descriptions of the latest analysis and design techniques. Coverage includes: • An introduction to control systems • State-space representations • Pole placement via state feedback • State estimators (observers) • Non-minimal canonical forms • Linearization • Lyapunov stability • Linear quadratic regulators (LQR) • Symmetric root locus (SRL) • Kalman filter • Linear quadratic gaussian control (LQG)