Feedback and sensitivity; feedforward, multiloop and MIMO systems; frequency response methods; shaping the loop frequency response; compensator design; analog controller implementation; linear links and system simulation; introduction to alternative methods of controller design; adaptive systems; provision of global stability; describing functions; process instability; multi-window compensators; appendices - feedback control, elementary treatment, frequency responses, causal systems, passive systems and positive real functions, derivation of bode integrals, programme for phase calculation, generic single-loop feedback system, effect of feedback on mobility, derivation, dependence of a function on a parameter, balanced bridge feedback, phase-gain relation for describing functions, discussions, design sequence, examples, bode step toolbox.
