Thoroughly updated, this edition features new material on decibels, levers, friction, clutches and brakes, tooth rotor tachometers, vision sensors, dynamic braking of DC motors, linear motors, and flux vector AC drives. Also included is new information on popular PIC and BASIC Stamp microcontrollers, plus expanded coverage of brushless DC motors and networking used in control systems."--BOOK JACKET.
An up-to-date, mainstream industrial electronics text often used for the last course in two-year electrical engineering technology and electro-mechanical technology programs. Focuses on current technology (digital controls, use of microprocessors) while including analog concepts. Balances industrial electronics and non-calculus controls topics. Covers all major topics: solid state controls, electric motors, sensors, and programmable controllers. Includes physics concepts and coverage of fuzzy logic. How to Use the Allen-Bradley 5, the most commonly used PLC, has been included as a tutorial appendix. Both Customary and SI units are used in examples.
Providing a lucid introduction to modern control systems topics, this book has been designed as a short course on control systems or as a review for the professional engineer. Five chapters have been written to emphasize concepts & provide basic mathematical derivations. CD-ROM with MATLAB applications included.
About the book... The book provides an integrated treatment of continuous-time and discrete-time systems for two courses at postgraduate level, or one course at undergraduate and one course at postgraduate level. It covers mainly two areas of modern control theory, namely; system theory, and multivariable and optimal control. The coverage of the former is quite exhaustive while that of latter is adequate with significant provision of the necessary topics that enables a research student to comprehend various technical papers. The stress is on interdisciplinary nature of the subject. Practical control problems from various engineering disciplines have been drawn to illustrate the potential concepts. Most of the theoretical results have been presented in a manner suitable for digital computer programming along with the necessary algorithms for numerical computations.
Control engineering seeks to understand physical systems, using mathematical modeling, in terms of inputs, outputs and various components with different behaviors. It has an essential role in a wide range of control systems, from household appliances to space flight. This book provides an in-depth view of the technologies that are implemented in most varieties of modern industrial control engineering. A solid grounding is provided in traditional control techniques, followed by detailed examination of modern control techniques such as real-time, distributed, robotic, embedded, computer and wireless control technologies. For each technology, the book discusses its full profile, from the field layer and the control layer to the operator layer. It also includes all the interfaces in industrial control systems: between controllers and systems; between different layers; and between operators and systems. It not only describes the details of both real-time operating systems and distributed operating systems, but also provides coverage of the microprocessor boot code, which other books lack. In addition to working principles and operation mechanisms, this book emphasizes the practical issues of components, devices and hardware circuits, giving the specification parameters, install procedures, calibration and configuration methodologies needed for engineers to put the theory into practice. - Documents all the key technologies of a wide range of industrial control systems - Emphasizes practical application and methods alongside theory and principles - An ideal reference for practicing engineers needing to further their understanding of the latest industrial control concepts and techniques
Well-written, practice-oriented textbook, and compact textbook Presents the contemporary state of the art of control theory and its applications Introduces traditional problems that are useful in the automatic control of technical processes, plus presents current issues of control Explains methods can be easily applied for the determination of the decision algorithms in computer control and management systems
Classical and Modern Control with Worked Examples contains problems in automatic control, with emphasis on continuous time systems. The book contains exercises that increase in difficulty. The text is organized into three parts, with each of the three parts divided into two chapters. The first chapter of each part consists of a course abstract; the second chapter contains the exercises relevant to the course in question. The first and second parts are devoted to linear and non-linear servo-systems. The third part introduces representation in the form of equations of state of linear systems. The book will be useful to students, technicians, and qualified engineers who wish to acquaint themselves in a practical way with both the traditional and the modern principles of automatic control, and with their application to industrial processes of all kinds.
Modern Control Systems, 12e, is ideal for an introductory undergraduate course in control systems for engineering students. Written to be equally useful for all engineering disciplines, this text is organized around the concept of control systems theory as it has been developed in the frequency and time domains. It provides coverage of classical control, employing root locus design, frequency and response design using Bode and Nyquist plots. It also covers modern control methods based on state variable models including pole placement design techniques with full-state feedback controllers and full-state observers. Many examples throughout give students ample opportunity to apply the theory to the design and analysis of control systems. Incorporates computer-aided design and analysis using MATLAB and LabVIEW MathScript.
In this book, Tewari emphasizes the physical principles and engineering applications of modern control system design. Instead of detailing the mathematical theory, MATLAB examples are used throughout.
