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ISBN 10:   1420091239

ISBN 13: 978-1420091236

Author:  John Billingsley

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Table of contents: 

ESSENTIALS OF CONTROL TECHNIQUES — WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

1. Introduction: Control in a Nutshell, History, Theory, Art, and Practice

2. The Origins of Control

   • Early Days of Feedback

   • The Origins of Simulation

3. Discrete Time

   • Modeling Time

   • Introduction

   • A Simple System

   • Simulation

   • Choosing a Computing Platform

   • An Alternative Platform

   • Solving the First Order Equation

   • A Second Order Problem

   • Matrix State Equations

   • Analog Simulation

   • Closed Loop Equations

4. Simulation with JavaScript: “On-Line Learning Interactive Environment for Simulation” (Jollies)

   • Introduction

   • How a JavaScript On-Line Learning Interactive Environment for Simulation (Jollies) Is Made Up

   • Moving Images without an Applet

   • A Generic Simulation

5. Practical Control Systems

   • Introduction

   • The Nature of Sensors

   • Velocity and Acceleration

   • Output Transducers

   • A Control Experiment

   • Adding Control

6. Adding Control (continued)

   • Introduction

   • Vector State Equations

   • Feedback

   • Another Approach

   • A Change of Variables

7. Systems with Time Delay and the PID Controller

   • Simulating the Water Heater Experiment

8. Systems with Real Components and Saturating Signals — Use of the Phase Plane

   • An Early Glimpse of Pole Assignment

   • The Effect of Saturation

   • Meet the Phase Plane

   • Phase Plane for Saturating Drive

   • Bang-Bang Control and Sliding Mode

9. Frequency Domain Methods

   • Introduction

   • Sine-Wave Fundamentals

   • Complex Amplitudes

   • More Complex Still — Complex Frequencies

   • Eigenfunctions and Gain

   • A Surfeit of Feedback

   • Poles and Polynomials

   • Complex Manipulations

   • Decibels and Octaves

   • Frequency Plots and Compensators

   • Second Order Responses

   • Excited Poles

10. Discrete Time Systems and Computer Control

    • Introduction

    • State Transition

    • Discrete Time State Equations and Feedback

    • Solving Discrete Time Equations

    • Matrices and Eigenvectors

    • Eigenvalues and Continuous Time Equations

    • Simulation of a Discrete Time System

    • A Practical Example of Discrete Time Control

11. Controllers with Added Dynamics

    • Controlling an Inverted Pendulum

    • Deriving the State Equations

    • Simulating the Pendulum

    • Adding Reality

    • A Better Choice of Poles

    • Increasing the Realism

    • Tuning the Feedback Pragmatically

    • Constrained Demand

    • In Conclusion

ESSENTIALS OF CONTROL THEORY — WHAT YOU OUGHT TO KNOW

12. More Frequency Domain Background Theory

    • Introduction

    • Complex Planes and Mappings

    • The Cauchy–Riemann Equations

    • Complex Integration

    • Differential Equations and the Laplace Transform

    • The Fourier Transform

13. More Frequency Domain Methods

    • Introduction

    • The Nyquist Plot

    • Nyquist with M-Circles

    • Software for Computing the Diagrams

    • The “Curly-Squares” Plot

    • Completing the Mapping

    • Nyquist Summary

    • The Nichols Chart

    • The Inverse-Nyquist Diagram

    • Summary of Experimental Methods

14. The Root Locus

    • Introduction

    • Root Locus and Mappings

    • A Root Locus Plot

    • Plotting with Poles and Zeroes

    • Poles and Polynomials

    • Compensators and Other Examples

    • Conclusions

15. Fashionable Topics in Control

    • Introduction

    • Adaptive Control

    • Optimal Control

    • Bang-Bang, Variable Structure, and Fuzzy Control

    • Neural Nets

    • Heuristic and Genetic Algorithms

    • Robust Control and H-Infinity

    • The Describing Function

    • Lyapunov Methods

    • Conclusion

16. Linking the Time and Frequency Domains

    • Introduction

    • State-Space and Transfer Functions

    • Deriving the Transfer Function Matrix

    • Transfer Functions and Time Responses

    • Filters in Software

    • Software Filters for Data

    • State Equations in the Companion Form

    • Time, Frequency, and Convolution

    • Delays and the Unit Impulse

    • The Convolution Integral

    • Finite Impulse Response Filters

    • Correlation

    • Conclusion

17. More about Time and State Equations

    • Introduction

    • Juggling the Matrices

    • Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues Revisited

    • Splitting a System into Independent Subsystems

    • Repeated Roots

    • Controllability and Observability

18. Practical Observers, Feedback with Dynamics

    • Introduction

    • The Kalman Filter

    • Reduced-State Observers

    • Control with Added Dynamics

    • Conclusion

19. Digital Control in More Detail

    • Introduction

    • Finite Differences — The Beta-Operator

    • Meet the z-Transform

    • Trains of Impulses

    • Some Properties of the z-Transform

    • Initial and Final Value Theorems

    • Dead-Beat Response

    • Discrete-Time Observers

    • Relationship between z- and Other Transforms

    • Introduction

    • The Impulse Modulator

    • Cascading Transforms

    • Tables of Transforms

    • The Beta and w Transforms

20. Design Methods for Computer Control

    • Introduction

    • The Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) as Zero Order Hold

    • Quantization

    • A Position Control Example, Discrete Time Root Locus

    • Discrete Time Dynamic Control — Assessing Performance

    • Errors and Noise

    • Disturbances

    • Practical Design Considerations

    • Delays and Sample Rates

    • Conclusion

21. Optimal Control — Nothing but the Best

    • Introduction: The End Point Problem

    • Dynamic Programming

    • Optimal Control of a Linear System

    • Time Optimal Control of a Second Order System

    • Optimal or Suboptimal?

    • Quadratic Cost Functions

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