Control Engineering plays a fundamental role in modern technological systems. One of the main aims of this book is to contribute to the development of skills and attitudes within readers and students that will better equip them to face the challenges of real-world design problems. The central theme of this book is continuous-time control; however we also treat digital control, because most modern control systems will usually be implemented on some form of computer hardware. This approach inevitably led to a book of larger volume than originally intended, but one with the advantage of...