Automatic Control: The Power of Feedback Using MATLAB (Bookware Companion Series) - Softcover

Djaferis, Theodore E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 053437171X ISBN 13: 9780534371715

Publisher: CL-Engineering, 1999

Synopsis

This unique, brief, interdisciplinary text uses the concept of automatic control as a unifying idea to explain the field of engineering - and the kinds of problems engineers solve - to first-year students. The author focuses on the basic principle of feedback and shows how it is used to design automatic controllers. Students learn how to develop explicit engineering models, expressed as linear differential equations with constant coefficients for each of the systems they study. Then, they will learn to solve these equations both analytically and numerically. Numerical solutions are performed using SIMULINK. System stability and system performance are introduced, and the book concludes with a capstone project in which students use simulations and experiments to develop automatic controllers for a computer-controlled model car. This updated printing makes the book and code examples (available for downloading from the Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning Bookware Companion Series Resource Center) current for MATLAB V5.

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Review

1. INTRODUCTION Automatic Control / Manual to Automatic (Cruise-Control) / A Basic Introduction to Automatic Control 2. SYSTEM MODELS AND DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Models of Simple Mechanical Systems / Models of Simple Electrical Systems / Models of Simple Chemical Systems / The Need for Solving Differential Equations / Exercises 3. LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND THEIR SOLUTION Solving Differential Equations / Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations / Transfer Function System Models / Exercises 4. DIGITAL COMPUTER SIMULATION Dynamic System Simulation / MATLAB(R)/SIMULINK(R) / Examples Using SIMULINK(R) / Exercises 5. STABILITY AND PERFORMANCE Stability / Performance / Exercises 6. FEEDBACK Feedback Versus Open Loop Systems / Transfer Function Block Diagrams / A Basic Feedback Interconnection / Use of Feedback for System Stabilization / Use of Feedback to Improve System Performance / Simulink Block Diagram with Feedback / Exercises 7. A COMPUTER-CONTROLLED MODEL CAR Automatic Control of a Physical System / A Transfer Function Model for CIMCAR-1 / A Collision Avoidance Experiment / Experimental Results / BIBLIOGRAPHY / INDEX

About the Author

Dr. Theodore E. Djaferis holds a B.S., Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Massachusetts, 1974, an M.S., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977, an E.E., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978, and a Ph.D., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979. He currently teaches Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Edition details

• Publisher: CL-Engineering
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 053437171X
• ISBN 13: 9780534371715
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160