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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 cl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Billingsley, J. (John)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Automatic control.
Control theory.
Commande automatique.
Théorie de la commande.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
Automatic control
Control theory
Regelungstechnik
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.