Re: Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems book by Tim Wescott

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:52:02 -0500, Mook Johnson wrote:

Hey Tim and others that have this book.

Looks like I'll be asked to do more an more controls projects and my last
"class" was over 15 years ago. I'm looking for a good book on embedded
control theory that is more on the practical side. (I.E. lots of real world
examples)

Would this book fit the bill for this use? It is nice to have contact with
the books author as well.

thanks.

Well, I certainly think so!

If you are an experienced embedded systems programmer and have done no or
little control systems, and if you need to pick it up for your job then
you are squarely in the center of my target readership.

The book is lighter on examples than I would like -- right now it's kind
of like meatloaf without much oatmeal. However, I recently taught a
course using it as a textbook. I'm going to be taking all of the homework
problems that I assigned for that course and posting them on the book's
site, along with worked answers. I expect this will enhance the book
considerably (and should it ever go to a second edition, you can expect
that those examples will either be worked into the text or put at the end
of each chapter as questions to be worked through).

--
Tim Wescott
Control systems and communications consulting
http://www.wescottdesign.com

Need to learn how to apply control theory in your embedded system?
"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" by Tim Wescott
Elsevier/Newnes, http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html
.

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