Table of contents:
Introduction to control systems --
Mathematical background --
Laplace transformation --
Mathematical background --
matrices --
Mathematical models of physical systems --
Basic control actions and industrial automatic controls --
Transient-response analysis --
Error analysis and introduction to system optimization --
The root-locus method --
Frequency-response methods --
Design and compensation techniques --
Describing-function analysis of nonlinear control systems --
Phase-plane analysis --
Discrete-time systems and the z-transform method --
State-space analysis of control systems --
Liapunov stability analysis --
Optimal and adaptive control systems.

Summary:
This treatment of the analysis and design of continuous-time control systems provides a gradual development of control theory - and shows how to solve all computational problems with MATLAB.