Description: I Theory of linear control systems.- 1 Historical overview of automatic control.- 2 Modern control theory.- II Solved problems.- 3 Continuous linear systems.- 4 Discrete linear systems.- 5 Exercise problems.- III Appendixes.- A.1 Introduction.- A.2 Basic matrix operations.- A.3 Plotting graphs.- A.4 Data analysis.- A.5 Data management and I/O operations.- A.6 Exercises.- B Mathematical preliminaries.- B.1 Introduction.- B.2 Differential and difference equations.- B.4 Matrices and determinants.- C Results from advanced matrix theory.- C.1 Eigenvectors and eigenvalues.- C.2 Diagonal and Jordan forms.- C.3 Similarity of matrices.- C.4 Symmetric and Hermitian matrices.- C.5 Quadratic forms and definiteness.- C.6 Some special matrices.- C.7 Rank, pseudoinverses, SVD, and norms.- C.8 Problems.

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