The book "Computer-Controlled Systems: Theory and Design" by Karl J. Åström and Björn Wittenmark, in its third edition, provides a comprehensive overview of computer-controlled systems. The content is divided into several chapters, each focusing on different aspects of the subject: 1. **Introduction to Computer Control**: Discusses the basics of computer technology, computer-control theory, and the development of the field. 2. **Discrete-Time Systems**: Explains sampling continuous-time signals, state-space systems, and the z-transform, including stability, sensitivity, and robustness. 3. **Analysis of Discrete-Time Systems**: Covers stability, controllability, observability, and the analysis of simple feedback loops. 4. **Pole-Placement Design**: Introduces state-space and polynomial approaches to control system design, including examples and conclusions. 5. **Design Overview**: Provides an overview of operational aspects, principles of structuring, and top-down and bottom-up design approaches. 6. **Process-Oriented Models**: Focuses on computer-controlled systems, sampling, aliasing, and frequency response. 7. **Approximating Continuous-Time Controllers**: Discusses transfer function and state model approximations, frequency-response design methods, and digital PID controllers. 8. **Implementation of Digital Controllers**: Covers prefiltering, computational delay, nonlinear actuators, and programming. 9. **Disturbance Models**: Explores methods to reduce disturbance effects, including piecewise deterministic and stochastic models. 10. **Optimal Design Methods**: Introduces linear quadratic control, prediction, filtering, and LQG control. 11. **Identification**: Discusses mathematical model building, system identification, and recursive computations. The book also includes appendices with examples and matrices, as well as a bibliography and index.The book "Computer-Controlled Systems: Theory and Design" by Karl J. Åström and Björn Wittenmark, in its third edition, provides a comprehensive overview of computer-controlled systems. The content is divided into several chapters, each focusing on different aspects of the subject: 1. **Introduction to Computer Control**: Discusses the basics of computer technology, computer-control theory, and the development of the field. 2. **Discrete-Time Systems**: Explains sampling continuous-time signals, state-space systems, and the z-transform, including stability, sensitivity, and robustness. 3. **Analysis of Discrete-Time Systems**: Covers stability, controllability, observability, and the analysis of simple feedback loops. 4. **Pole-Placement Design**: Introduces state-space and polynomial approaches to control system design, including examples and conclusions. 5. **Design Overview**: Provides an overview of operational aspects, principles of structuring, and top-down and bottom-up design approaches. 6. **Process-Oriented Models**: Focuses on computer-controlled systems, sampling, aliasing, and frequency response. 7. **Approximating Continuous-Time Controllers**: Discusses transfer function and state model approximations, frequency-response design methods, and digital PID controllers. 8. **Implementation of Digital Controllers**: Covers prefiltering, computational delay, nonlinear actuators, and programming. 9. **Disturbance Models**: Explores methods to reduce disturbance effects, including piecewise deterministic and stochastic models. 10. **Optimal Design Methods**: Introduces linear quadratic control, prediction, filtering, and LQG control. 11. **Identification**: Discusses mathematical model building, system identification, and recursive computations. The book also includes appendices with examples and matrices, as well as a bibliography and index.