Introduction

Abstract

After defining the notation and nomenclature used throughout the book, a review of the traditional industrial controllers is given, commencing with the simplest. This ensures some continuity between the elementary studies that will already have been undertaken by the reader and the more advanced material. Then a comprehensive treatment of the correlation between the relative pole and zero locations of the Laplace transfer function of a linear time-invariant system and its dynamic characteristics is given, quantified by the pole-to-pole and pole-to-zero dominance ratios.