Handbook Of Control Systems Engineering

This book is a revision and extension of my 1995 Sourcebook of Control Systems Engineering. Because of the extensions and other modifications, it has been retitled Handbook of Control Systems Engineering, which it is intended to be for its prime audience: advanced undergraduate students, beginning graduate students, and practising engineers needing an understandable review of the field or recent developments which may prove useful. There are several differences between this edition and the first. • Two new chapters on aspects of nonlinear systems have been incorporated. In the first of these, selected material for nonlinear systems is concentrated on four aspects: showing the value of certain linear controllers, arguing the suitability of algebraic linearization, reviewing the semi-classical methods of harmonic balance, and introducing the nonlinear change of variable technique known as feedback linearization. In the second chapter, the topic of variable structure control, often with sliding mode, is introduced. • Another new chapter introduces discrete event systems, including several approaches to their analysis. • The chapters on robust control and intelligent control have been extensively revised. • Modest revisions and extensions have also been made to other chapters, often to incorporate extensions to nonlinear systems.

This is the biggest, most comprehensive, and most prestigious compilation of articles on control systems imaginable. Every aspect of control is expertly covered, from the mathematical foundations to applications in robot and manipulator control. Never before has such a massive amount of authoritative, detailed, accurate, and well-organized information been available in a single volume. Absolutely everyone working in any aspect of systems and controls must have this book!

The Book Provides An Integrated Treatment Of Continuous-Time And Discrete-Time Systems For Two Courses At Undergraduate Level Or One Course At Postgraduate Level. The Stress Is On The Interdisciplinary Nature Of The Subject And Examples Have Been Drawn From Various Engineering Disciplines To Illustrate The Basic System Concepts. A Strong Emphasis Is Laid On Modeling Of Practical Systems Involving Hardware; Control Components Of A Wide Variety Are Comprehensively Covered. Time And Frequency Domain Techniques Of Analysis And Design Of Control Systems Have Been Exhaustively Treated And Their Interrelationship Established.Adequate Breadth And Depth Is Made Available For A Second Course. The Coverage Includes Digital Control Systems: Analysis, Stability And Classical Design; State Variables For Both Continuous-Time And Discrete-Time Systems; Observers And Pole-Placement Design; Liapunov Stability; Optimal Control; And Recent Advances In Control Systems: Adaptive Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Neural Network Control.Salient Features * State Variables Concept Introduced Early In Chapter 2 * Examples And Problems Around Obsolete Technology Updated. New Examples Added * Robotics Modeling And Control Included * Pid Tuning Procedure Well Explained And Illustrated * Robust Control Introduced In A Simple And Easily Understood Style * State Variable Formulation And Design Simplified And Generalizations Built On Examples * Digital Control; Both Classical And Modern Approaches, Covered In Depth * A Chapter On Adaptive, Fuzzy Logic And Neural Network Control, Amenable To Undergraduate Level Use, Included * An Appendix On Matlab With Examples From Time And Frequency Domain Analysis And Design, Included

Highly regarded for its practical case studies and accessible writing, Norman Nise’s Control Systems Engineering has become the top selling text for this course. It takes a practical approach, presenting clear and complete explanations. Real world examples demonstrate the analysis and design process, while helpful skill assessment exercises, numerous in-chapter examples, review questions and problems reinforce key concepts. In addition, "What If" experiments help expand an engineer’s knowledge and skills. Tutorials are also included on the latest versions of MATLAB®, the Control System Toolbox, Simulink®, the Symbolic Math Toolbox, and MATLAB®’s graphical user interface (GUI) tools. A new progressive problem, a solar energy parabolic trough collector, is featured at the end of each chapter. Ten new simulated control lab experiments now complement the online resources that accompany the text. This edition also includes Hardware Interface Laboratory experiments for use on the MyDAQ® platform from National Instruments™. A tutorial for MyDAQ® is included as Appendix D.

At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that first edition was cited by the AAP as the Best Engineering Handbook of 1996. Now, 15 years later, William Levine has once again compiled the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on control engineering. He has fully reorganized the text to reflect the technical advances achieved since the last edition and has expanded its contents to include the multidisciplinary perspective that is making control engineering a critical component in so many fields. Now expanded from one to three volumes, The Control Handbook, Second Edition brilliantly organizes cutting-edge contributions from more than 200 leading experts representing every corner of the globe. The first volume, Control System Fundamentals, offers an overview for those new to the field but is also of great value to those across any number of fields whose work is reliant on but not exclusively dedicated to control systems. Covering mathematical fundamentals, defining principles, and basic system approaches, this volume: Details essential background, including transforms and complex variables Includes mathematical and graphical models used for dynamical systems Covers analysis and design methods and stability testing for continuous-time systems Delves into digital control and discrete-time systems, including real-time software for implementing feedback control and programmable controllers Analyzes design methods for nonlinear systems As with the first edition, the new edition not only stands as a record of accomplishment in control engineering but provides researchers with the means to make further advances. Progressively organized, the other two volumes in the set include: Control System Applications Control System Advanced Methods

The vast majority of control systems built today are embedded; that is, they rely on built-in, special-purpose digital computers to close their feedback loops. Embedded systems are common in aircraft, factories, chemical processing plants, and even in cars–a single high-end automobile may contain over eighty different computers. The design of embedded controllers and of the intricate, automated communication networks that support them raises many new questions—practical, as well as theoretical—about network protocols, compatibility of operating systems, and ways to maximize the effectiveness of the embedded hardware. This handbook, the first of its kind, provides engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, and students a broad, comprehensive source of information and technology to address many questions and aspects of embedded and networked control. Separated into six main sections—Fundamentals, Hardware, Software, Theory, Networking, and Applications—this work unifies into a single reference many scattered articles, websites, and specification sheets. Also included are case studies, experiments, and examples that give a multifaceted view of the subject, encompassing computation and communication considerations.