Control Engineering
Published on 19. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 752 pages
978-0-333-77129-7 (ISBN)
Description
Control Engineering "An Introductory Course" is aimed at second or third year courses in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, and provides for the needs of these courses without being over-burdened with detail.
The authors work in one of the foremost centres in Europe for Control Engineering, and bring both teaching and practical consultancy experience to the text, which links theoretical approaches to actual case histories. Including an introduction to the software tools of MATLAB and SIMULINK, this book also includes simulations and examples throughout, and will give a straightforward and no-nonsense introduction to Control Engineering for students, and those wishing to refresh their knowledge.
The authors work in one of the foremost centres in Europe for Control Engineering, and bring both teaching and practical consultancy experience to the text, which links theoretical approaches to actual case histories. Including an introduction to the software tools of MATLAB and SIMULINK, this book also includes simulations and examples throughout, and will give a straightforward and no-nonsense introduction to Control Engineering for students, and those wishing to refresh their knowledge.
More details
Edition
2001
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1457 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-77129-7 (9780333771297)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4039-1457-6
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
JACQUELINE WILKIE (Senior Lecturer), MICHAEL JOHNSON (Professor), and REZA KATEBI (Senior Lecturer) are academic staff at the Industrial Control Centre, at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, at the University of Strathclyde. They have many years experience, teaching control and measurement across all years of the Undergraduate programme, and have been dedicated to revitalising teaching practice in this subject.
Content
Introduction.- Tools for the Control Engineer.- Software Toolkit: MATLAB.- Software Toolkit: Simulink.- Modelling and Block Diagrams.- Simple Systems: first-order behavior.- Simple Systems: second-order behavior.- Feedback improves system performance.- Design Specifications on System Time Response.- Poles, Zeroes and System Stability.- Three Term Control: PID Control.- PID Control: The Background to Simple Tuning Methods.- Root Locus for Analysis and Design.- The Frequency Domain.- Frequency Response using Bode Plot Presentation.- Controller Design using the Bode plot.- Analysis and Simple Design using the Nichol's chart.- Practical Aspects of PID control.- PID Controller Tuning Methods.- Introducing a State Variable Description of a System.- Linearisation of Systems from the Non-linear World.- Analysis of State Variable Systems.- An introduction to Control using State Variable System Models.