Control System Fundamentals

✍ Scribed by William S. Levine (Author)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2000
• Leaves: 479
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sifting through the variety of control systems applications can be a chore. Diverse and numerous technologies inspire applications ranging from float valves to microprocessors. Relevant to any system you might use, the highly adaptable Control System Fundamentals fills your need for a comprehensive treatment of the basic principles of control system engineering.

This overview furnishes the underpinnings of modern control systems. Beginning with a review of the required mathematics, major subsections cover digital control and modeling. An international panel of experts discusses the specification of control systems, techniques for dealing with the most common and important control system nonlinearities, and digital implementation of control systems, with complete references. This framework yields a primary resource that is also capable of directing you to more detailed articles and books.

This self-contained reference explores the universal aspects of control that you need for any application. Reliable, up-to-date, and versatile, Control System Fundamentals answers your basic control systems questions and acts as an ideal starting point for approaching any control problem.

✦ Table of Contents

Mathematical Foundations

Ordinary Linear Differential and Difference Equations

The Fourier, Laplace, and z-Transforms

Matrices and Linear Algebra

Complex Variables

Models for Dynamical Systems

Standard Mathematical Models

Graphical Models

Determining Models

Analysis and Design Methods for Continuous-Time Systems

Analysis Methods

Stability Tests

Design Methods

Digital Control

Discrete-Time Systems

Sampled Data Systems

Discrete-Time Equivalents to Continuous-Time Systems

Design Methods for Discrete-Time, Linear Time-Invariant Systems

Quantization Effects

Sample-Rate Selection

Real-Time Software for Implementation of Feedback Control

Programmable Controllers

Analysis and Design Methods for Nonlinear Systems

Analysis Methods

Design Methods

Software for Control System Analysis and Design

Numerical and Computational Issues in Linear Control and System Theory

Software for Modeling and Simulating Control Systems

Computer-Aided Control Systems Design

✦ Subjects

Engineering & Technology;Electrical & Electronic Engineering;Systems & Controls