Essentials of control techniques and theory Sect. I. Essentials of Control Techniques What You Need to Know 1. Introduction: Control in a Nutshell; History Theory Art and Practice 2. Modeling Time 3. Simulation with JOLLIES: JavaScript On Line Learning Interactive Environment for Simulation 4. Practical Control Systems 5. Adding Control 6. Systems with Real Components and Saturating Signals Use of the Phase Plane 7. Frequency Domain Methods 8. Discrete Time Systems and Computer Control 9. Controlling an Inverted Pendulum Sect. II. Essentials of Control Theory What You Ought to Know 10. More Frequency Domain Background Theory 11. More Frequency Domain Methods 12. Root Locus 13. Fashionable Topics in Control 14. Linking the Time and Frequency Domains 15. Time Frequency and Convolution 16. More about Time and State Equations 17. Practical Observers Feedback with Dynamics 18. Digital Control in More Detail 19. Relationship between z and Other Transforms 20. Design Methods for Computer Control 21. Errors and Noise 22. Optimal Control Nothing but the Rest