Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems

Applied Control Theory is, first and foremost, not a substitute for years of formal education about control systems. With that out of the way, it's a very solid primer/reference for those of us who aren't control engineers, but have occasional control problems that need analysis. It's pretty light on math and formal proofs; you break it out when you've got a problem and a deadline and need to wrap it up so that you can get to the 15 other things on your open issues list. In part, it's a book length expansion of Wescott's earlier article, PID without a Ph.D, available at [...] . If you like his writing there, you'll like it here. It's a good reference for engineers who know it but need to occasionally brush back up. It's a good learning guide for programmers who don't know engineering but find themselves suddenly expected to do control theory. It is, however, a lousy book for an engineer to lend to one of his programmers; they tend to scarper off with it, and then you don't have your copy anymore.