Improve machine performance with updated cutting-edge control design scenarios, models and simulations, enabling apps from battlebots to solar collectors. Control Systems Design Guide has helped thousands of engineers to improve machine performance. This fourth edition of the practical guide has been updated with cutting-edge control design scenarios, models and simulations enabling apps from battlebots to solar collectors.
This useful reference enhances coverage of practical applications via the inclusion of new control system models, troubleshooting tips, and expanded coverage of complex systems requirements, such as increased speed, precision and remote capabilities, bridging the gap between the complex, math-heavy control theory taught in formal courses, and the efficient implementation required in real industry settings.
Contents - Important Safety Guidelines for Readers
- Chapter 1. Introduction to Controls
- Chapter 2. The Frequency Domain
- Chapter 3. Tuning a Control System
- Chapter 4. Delay in Digital Controllers
- Chapter 5. The z-Domain
- Chapter 6. Six Types of Controllers
- Chapter 7. Disturbance Response
- Chapter 8. Feed-Forward
- Chapter 9. Filters in Control Systems
- Chapter 10. Introduction to Observers in Control Systems
- Chapter 11. Introduction to Modeling
- Chapter 12. Nonlinear Behavior and Time Variation
- Chapter 13. Model Development and Verification
- Chapter 14. Encoders and Resolvers
- Chapter 15. Basics of the Electric Servomotor and Drive
- Chapter 16. Compliance and Resonance
- Chapter 17. Position-Control Loops
- Chapter 18. Using the Luenberger Observer in Motion Control
- Chapter 19. Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) for a Motion System
Key Features
- Explains how to model machines and processes, including how to measure working equipment, with an intuitive approach that avoids complex math.
- Includes coverage on the interface between control systems and digital processors, reflecting the reality that most motion systems are now designed with PC software.
- Of particular interest to the practicing engineer is the addition of new material on real-time, remote and networked control systems.
Readership
- Mechanical, electrical and industrial design engineers.
- Students preparing to enter these disciplines.
About the Author
- George Ellis is Director of Technology Planning and Chief Engineer of Servo Systems at Kollmorgen Corporation, a leading provider of motion systems and components for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) around the globe. He has designed an applied motion control systems professionally for over 20 years He has written two well-respected books with Academic Press, Observers in Control Systems and Control System Design Guide, now in its third edition. He has contributed articles on the application of controls to numerous magazines, including Machine Design, Control Engineering, Motion Systems Design, Power Control and Intelligent Motion, and Electronic Design News.
Book Details
- Hardcover: 520 pages
- Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann; 4 edition (May 28, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0123859204
- ISBN-13: 978-0123859204
List Price: $89.95