Control Engineering (Paperback)

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.