Automatic Control: The Power of Feedback Using Matlab (The PWS BookWare companion series) - Softcover

Djaferis, Theodore Euclid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534950515 ISBN 13: 9780534950514

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1980

Synopsis

This slim supplement can serve as a course component in a variety of efforts to revise the Freshman Year Experience in a large number of Engineering departments and Schools of Engineering (particularly those schools involved in NSF-funded undergraduate curriculum reform, such as Texas A&M and Arizona State). The book is currently being used at UMass by Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Civil Engineers, and Chemical Engineers.

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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: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0534950515
• ISBN 13: 9780534950514
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144