Katsuhiko Ogata’s Modern Control Engineering takes a different approach to similar problems. By comparing Kuo’s solution to Ogata’s method for, say, state feedback controller design, you gain a broader perspective.
Now follow the solution line-by-line. For example, in a state-space problem (Chapter 9), the solution may compute the controllability matrix. Pause after each line and derive it yourself on paper.
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