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What is the best book for learning the basics of 'Control

Systems'?
P.S :- I am an electronics engineer and Control System for us is just a topic of one
semester (6-months) so do recommend me a book which makes my concept clear in a
reasonable amount of time as I even have to bother about other topics like 'Principles of
Communication', '8085-Micro-processors'

8 Answers
Pasquale Ferrara, Ph.D. student doing research in Electronic Design
Automation
Written 15 Jul 2013

I used a portfolio of books, since my classes in control engineering covered a variety of

topics.

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The three main books that I used were:

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[1] R. C. Dorf and R. H. Bishop. Modern Control Systems. Pearson Education, Upper
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[2] G. F. Franklin, J. D. Powell, and A. Emami-Naeini. Feedback Control of Dynamic

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[3] J. Dorsey. Continuous and Discrete Control Systems: Modeling, Identification, Design,
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