Control systems engineering

« Control Systems Engineering, 7th Edition has become the top selling text for this course. It takes a practical approach, presenting clear and complete explanations. Real world examples demonstrate the analysis and design process, while helpful skill assessment exercises, numerous in-chapter examples, review questions and problems reinforce key concepts. A new progressive problem, a solar energy parabolic trough collector, is featured at the end of each chapter. This edition also includes Hardware Interface Laboratory experiments for use on the MyDAQ platform from National Instruments. A tutorial for MyDAQ is included as Appendix D. »--

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.Introduction -- 1.2.A History of Control Systems -- 1.3.System Configurations -- 1.4.Analysis and Design Objectives -- Case Study -- 1.5.The Design Process -- 1.6.Computer-Aided Design -- 1.7.The Control Systems Engineer -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Problems -- Cyber Exploration Laboratory -- Bibliography -- 2.Modeling In The Frequency Domain -- 2.1.Introduction -- 2.2.Laplace Transform Review -- 2.3.The Transfer Function -- 2.4.Electrical Network Transfer Functions -- 2.5.Translational Mechanical System Transfer Functions -- 2.6.Rotational Mechanical System Transfer Functions -- 2.7.Transfer Functions for Systems with Gears -- 2.8.Electromechanical System Transfer Functions -- 2.9.Electric Circuit Analogs -- 2.10.Nonlinearities -- 2.11.Linearization -- Case Studies -- Summary -- Review Questions -- Problems -- Cyber Exploration Laboratory -- Hardware Interface Laboratory -- Bibliography -- 3.Modeling In The Time Domain -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Some Observations -- 3.3.The General State-Space Representation -- 3.4.Applying the State-Space Representation -- 3.5.Converting a Transfer Function to State Space -- 3.6.Convert…