Acknowledgements

Figures 6, 11, 21 and 22 are reproduced from Franklin, Powell and Emami-Naeini, “Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems”, Addison-Wesley, 1986.

Figures 15, 16 17, 18 19 and 20 are reproduced from DiStefano, Stubberud and Williams, “Feedback and Control Systems”, 2nd Ed., Schaum’s Outline Series, McGraw & Hill, 1989.

Figures 7 and 9 are reproduced from Hostetter, Savant and Stefani, “Design of Feedback Control Systems”, 2nd Ed., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1989.

Figures in the Appendix are reproduced from Dorf, “Modern Control Systems”, 5th Ed., Addison Wesley, 1989.

Figure 14 is reproduced from Open University, “Control Engineering”, T391 Course Notes.

This handout is based, in part, on lecture notes written by Dr W.R. Moore for a second-year course in Automatic Control given in the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Hull, circa 1979.