ABSTRACT

Control systems theory can be traced back to the age of World War II, or even earlier, when the design, analysis, and synthesis of servomechanisms were essential in the manufacturing of electromechanical systems. The development of control systems theory has since gone through an evolutionary process, starting from some basic, simplistic, frequency-domain analysis for singleinput single-output (SISO) linear control systems, to a mathematically sophisticated modern theory of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) linear and nonlinear systems described by differential and/or difference equations.