ABSTRACT

Carefully separating the essential from the ornamental, Essentials of Control Techniques and Theory presents the nuts and bolts for designing a successful controller. It discusses the theory required to support the art of designing a working controller as well as the various aspects to convince a client, employer, or examiner of your expertise.

A Compelling Account of the Basics of Control Theory
Control solutions for practicing engineers

Using the author’s own Javascript On-Line Learning Interactive Environment for Simulation (Jollies), the text relies on computer-based graphical analysis methods, such as Nyquist, Nichols, root locus, and phase-plane, to illustrate how useful computer simulation can be for analyzing both linear and nonlinear systems. It explains step-by-step the design and modeling of various control systems, including discrete time systems and an inverted pendulum. Along with offering many web-based simulations, the book shows how mathematics, such as vectors, matrices, and the differential equations that govern state variables, can help us understand the concepts that underpin the controller’s effects.

From frequency domain analysis to time-domain state-space representation, this book covers many aspects of classical and modern control theory. It presents important methods for designing and analyzing linear systems and controllers.

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SECTION I: ESSENTIALS OF CONTROL TECHNIQUES-WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

part |2 pages

SECTION II: ESSENTIALS OF CONTROL THEORY-WHAT YOU OUGHT TO KNOW

chapter 10|14 pages

More Frequency Domain Background Theory

chapter 11|18 pages

More Frequency Domain Methods

chapter 12|16 pages

The Root Locus

chapter 13|8 pages

Fashionable Topics in Control

chapter 14|16 pages

Linking the Time and Frequency Domains

chapter 15|12 pages

Time, Frequency, and Convolution

chapter 16|16 pages

More about Time and State Equations

chapter 17|14 pages

Practical Observers, Feedback with Dynamics

chapter 18|20 pages

Digital Control in More Detail

chapter 19|10 pages

Relationship between z- and Other Transforms

chapter 20|12 pages

Design Methods for Computer Control

chapter 21|10 pages

Errors and Noise

chapter 22|18 pages

Optimal Control—Nothing but the Best