Me305 System Control 2020 Fall

  Modern Control Theory.  The modern trend in engineering systems is towardgreater complexity, due mainly to the requirements of complex tasks and good accuracy. Complex systems may have multiple inputs and multiple outputs and may be time varying. Because of the necessity of meeting increasingly stringent requirements on the performance of control systems, the increase in system complexity, and easy access to large scale computers, modern control theory, which is a new approach to the analysis and design of complex control systems, has been developed since around 1960.This new approach is based on the concept of state. The concept of state by itself is not new, since it has been in existence for a long time in the field of classical dynamics and other fields. Modern Control Theory Versus Conventional Control Theory.   Modern control theory is contrasted with conventional control theory in that the former is applicable to multiple-input, multiple-output systems, which may...