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[1] R. C. Dorf and R. H. Bishop. Modern Control Systems. Pearson Education,

Upper Saddle River, NJ, eleventh/international edition, 2008.

[2] G. F. Franklin, J. D. Powell, and A. Emami-Naeini. Feedback Control of

Dynamic Systems. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, fourth edition, 2002.
International Edition.

[3] J. Dorsey. Continuous and Discrete Control Systems: Modeling,

Identification, Design, and Implemen- tation. McGraw-Hill Series in Electrical
and Computer Engineering. Prentice-Hall, New York, NY, 2002. International
Edition.

For digital control, I used:

[4] C. L. Phillips and H. T. Nagle. Digital Control System Analysis and Design.
Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, third edition, 1998. International Edition.

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[5] W. S. Levine. The Control Handbook: Control System Advanced Methods.

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The Electrical Engineering Handbook Series. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, second
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[6] W. S. Levine. The Control Handbook: Control System Applications. The

Electrical Engineering Handbook Series. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, second
edition, 2011.

[7] W. S. Levine. The Control Handbook: Control System Fundamentals. The

Electrical Engineering Hand- book Series. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, second
edition, 2011.

[8] Z. Bubnicki. Modern Control Theory. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg,

Heidelberg, Germany, 2005.

[9] N. S. Nise. Control Systems Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ,
sixth edition, 2011.

[10] K. Ogata. Modern Control Engineering. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River,
NJ, third edition, 1997.

[11] S. Skogestad and I. Postlethwaite. Multivariable Feedback Control: Analysis

and Design. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, West Sussex, England, UK, second
edition, September 2005.

[12] A. Isidori. Nonlinear Control Systems II. Communications and Control

Engineering. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany, 1999.

[13] Automatic Control System, by B.C. Kuo and F. Golnaraghi

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Automatic Control System, by B.C. Kuo and F. Golnaraghi

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Amazon link: Automatic Control Systems: Farid Golnaraghi, Benjamin C. Kuo:

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Since you mentioned Basics :

1. "Control Systems Engineering" by I.J. Nagrath & M. Gopal, its covers most
basics of  Mathematical Models ,servo systems ,Stability etc.,
2. To get more on Math part of Control system Arnol'd's ODEs will be suggested
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3.Good Hand Reference  : Modern Control Engineering" by Ogata
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Modern Control Engineering by Katsuhiko Ogata. One of the finest books in

control system. All the concepts are mentioned very intuitively and there are a
lot of solved out examples using matlab&simulink as well. If you're really
interested in Control systems, this is the book for you.
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Control Systems by Nagoor Kani

Since it's written by an Indian author, the language is very simple, and it
includes a dearth of worked out examples for all sorts of problems in Control
Systems. In College of Engineering, Guindy, all sums in the Control Systems
paper come from this book.

For someone simply taking the course for 6 months, the book is very useful. For
someone actually planning to go in depth into the field, something more
advanced will be required.
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Electronic Design Automation · Author has 137 answers and 236.9k answer views

My "Systems and Controls" course required the book "Feedback Control of

Dynamic Systems" (Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems (6th Edition): Gene F.
Franklin, J. David Powell, Abbas Emami-Naeini: 9780136019695: Amazon.com:
Books ) which Pasquale Ferrara mentioned as one of his main three. 

While in this course though, when we started to cover root locus, Professor
Bernardin refered repeatedly to "Modern Control Engineering" by Katsuhiko
Ogata (Modern Control Engineering (5th Edition): Katsuhiko Ogata:
9780136156734: Amazon.com: Books ), saying that he is the father of Controls
engineering.  I just happened to buy an older edition of the book for $2 on
Amazon before the semester, and while I didn't go through both books
completely (because like you said, 18 hours is tough), I feel they were both
helpful in understanding the concepts associated with Controls.
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