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CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN GUIDE
Control System Design Guide
Using Your Computer to Understand and Diagnose Feedback Controllers
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Third Edition

By
George Ellis, Danaher Motion Systems, Radford, VA

Description
Control System Design Guide, 3E will help engineers to apply control theory to practical systems using their PC. This book provides an intuitive approach to controls, avoiding unnecessary mathematics and emphasizing key concepts with more than a dozen control system models. Whether readers are just starting to use controllers or have years of experience, this book will help them improve their machines and processes.

Audience
Electrical and mechanical engineers in control, systems, and robotics and electronics hobbyists.

Contents
Introduction to Controls; The Frequency Domain; Tuning a Control System; Delay in Digital Controllers; The z-Domain; Six Types of Controllers; Disturbance Response; Feed-Forward; Filters in Control Systems; Introduction to Observers in Control Systems; Introduction to Modeling; Nonlinear Behavior and Time Variation; Seven Steps to Developing a Model; Encoders and Resolvers; Basics of the Electric Servomotor and Drive; Compliance and Resonance; Position-Control Loops; Using the Luenberger Observer in Motion Control. Appendices: Active Analog Implementation of Controller Elements; European Symbols for Block Diagrams; The Runge-Kutta Method; Development of the Bilinear Transformation; The Parallel Form of Digital Algorithms; Basic Matrix Math.

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 464 pages, publication date: FEB-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-237461-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-237461-4
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS

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