Control Theory Textbook

Question

I'm looking for a good textbook or series of lecture notes for learning about sampled data control theory. I'm a relative beginner in this area, so I'm looking for a gentle introduction. I'm particularly trying to learn how to formally reason about the safety of sampled data control systems, e.g. a digital controller that keeps the height of a system below a certain value. A textbook that touches on this would be very helpful.

Answer 1

The book I used also uses Matlab and shows examples on how to implement control in Matlab.

Automatic Control Systems by Goinaraghi Kuo

Another book I used was

Feedback Control of Dynamical Systems by Franklin, Powell, and Emami-Naeini

This book also uses Matlab as well.

Answer 2

There are many standard textbooks, with similar technical content. A favorite, especially for the coverage of the engineering intuition as well as the technical tools, is Karl Åström's:

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Controlled-Systems-Theory-Design-Edition/dp/0133148998