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  • © 2002

Control Engineering

  • Contains all the material required for a thorough introduction to Control Engineering, without being overburdened with detail
    MATLAB & Simulink tutorials in Chapter enables full usage of these tools as the book and course develop
    Guidance on 'Procedures' in the analysis of a control system shows students what they should actually do after all the theory has been explained
    'Skills Sections' that focus on the key skills required of the Control Engineer in practice
    Practical examples throughout
    Introduction to aspects of design in later chapters
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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 1-15
  3. Tools for the control engineer

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 16-51
  4. Software toolkit: Matlab

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 52-82
  5. Software toolkit: Simulink

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 83-101
  6. Modelling for control engineering

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 102-146
  7. Simple systems: first-order behaviour

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 147-172
  8. Simple systems: second-order systems

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 173-195
  9. Feedback improves system performance

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 196-218
  10. Design specifications on system time response

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 219-241
  11. Poles, zeros and system stability

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 242-276
  12. Three-term control: PID control

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 277-311
  13. PID control: the background to simple tuning methods

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 312-350
  14. Root locus for analysis and design

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 351-382
  15. The frequency domain

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 383-425
  16. Frequency response using Bode plot presentation

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 426-468
  17. Controller design using the Bode plot

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 469-504
  18. Analysis and simple design using the Nichols chart

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 505-528
  19. The practical aspects of PID control

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 529-576
  20. PID controller tuning methods

    • Jacqueline Wilkie, Michael Johnson, Reza Katebi
    Pages 577-619

About this book

Control Engineering "An Introductory Course" is aimed at second or third year courses in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, and provides for the needs of these courses without being over-burdened with detail.
The authors work in one of the foremost centres in Europe for Control Engineering, and bring both teaching and practical consultancy experience to the text, which links theoretical approaches to actual case histories. Including an introduction to the software tools of MATLAB and SIMULINK, this book also includes simulations and examples throughout, and will give a straightforward and no-nonsense introduction to Control Engineering for students, and those wishing to refresh their knowledge.

About the authors

JACQUELINE WILKIE (Senior Lecturer), MICHAEL JOHNSON (Professor), and REZA KATEBI (Senior Lecturer) are academic staff at the Industrial Control Centre, at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, at the University of Strathclyde. They have many years experience, teaching control and measurement across all years of the Undergraduate programme, and have been dedicated to revitalising teaching practice in this subject.

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