Control Engineering: An Introductory Course

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Tools for the control engineer....Pages 16-51
Software toolkit: Matlab....Pages 52-82
Software toolkit: Simulink....Pages 83-101
Modelling for control engineering....Pages 102-146
Simple systems: first-order behaviour....Pages 147-172
Simple systems: second-order systems....Pages 173-195
Feedback improves system performance....Pages 196-218
Design specifications on system time response....Pages 219-241
Poles, zeros and system stability....Pages 242-276
Three-term control: PID control....Pages 277-311
PID control: the background to simple tuning methods....Pages 312-350
Root locus for analysis and design....Pages 351-382
The frequency domain....Pages 383-425
Frequency response using Bode plot presentation....Pages 426-468
Controller design using the Bode plot....Pages 469-504
Analysis and simple design using the Nichols chart....Pages 505-528
The practical aspects of PID control....Pages 529-576
PID controller tuning methods....Pages 577-619
Introducing a state variable description of a system....Pages 620-658
Linearisation of systems from the real nonlinear world....Pages 659-682
Analysis of state variable systems....Pages 683-709
An introduction to control using state variable system models....Pages 710-737
Back Matter....Pages 738-751