This well structured, intriguing and motivating book presents the basic ideas and understanding of control, signals and systems for readers interested in engineering and science. Through a series of examples that are regularly revisited from different perspectives, the book explores both the theory and the practice of control."Feedback and Control for Everyone" is indeed intended for everyone, but more specifically everyone interested in getting a feel for the role control and feedback play in our environment. Control and feedback are pervasive and are literally found everywhere in our engineered or biological environment. The book focuses on the main ideas and opens the scientific mind to feedback, control and systems dynamics. The exposition of ideas does not assume any mathematical knowledge beyond what typically is taught at an intermediate mathematics level at high school. Appealing to examples and intuition, the authors guide the reader to the essential ingredients to describe, analyze and synthesize successfully feedback. Each chapter ends with comments and references that enable the interested reader to explore the exposed subject material in a deeper manner. "Feedback and Control for Everyone" is written for: understanding basic concepts on systems dynamics and control, realizing the strong connection between technical and human/social dynamics, motivating further reading and study about control systems, showing the power of abstraction to infer properties of complex systems based on simplified mathematical models, emphasizing the interplay between communication, computers and control in this Digital Era, creating bridges among different sciences and technologies such as engineering, physics, biology, biochemistry, or systems dynamics.
Author(s): Pedro Albertos, Iven Mareels
Edition: 1st Edition.
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 305
Tags: Автоматизация;Теория автоматического управления (ТАУ);Книги на иностранных языках;
Feedback and Control
for Everyone......Page 1
ISBN 3642034454......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
Feedback......Page 19
Block Diagrams, Systems, Inputs and Outputs......Page 20
More on Block Diagrams......Page 23
Recording Music......Page 24
Connected Water Tanks......Page 25
Summary Block Diagrams......Page 26
Feedback in the Shower......Page 28
Boiler Water Level Control......Page 29
Manufacturing and Robots......Page 30
Systems, Causality, Stationarity and Linearity......Page 31
Models......Page 34
Modeling......Page 36
The Basic Control Loop......Page 37
Control Design......Page 39
Concluding Remarks......Page 40
Comments and Further Reading......Page 41
Introduction and Motivation......Page 43
Signals and Their Graphical Representation......Page 44
Signals and Analogies......Page 48
Heating an Oven......Page 50
Charging a Capacitor......Page 52
Computer Algorithm......Page 53
Discrete Time or Continuous Time?......Page 55
Analogous Systems......Page 56
Combining Systems and Splitting Distributed Systems......Page 58
Systems Perspective......Page 59
Comments and Further Reading......Page 61
Introduction and Motivation......Page 62
Manufacturing Ceramic Tiles......Page 63
Gravity-Fed Irrigation Systems......Page 68
Servo Design for Antennae for Radio Astronomy......Page 74
Simple Automata......Page 80
Homeostasis......Page 81
Social Systems......Page 85
Comments and Further Reading......Page 93
Introduction and Motivation......Page 94
Signals and Signal Classes......Page 95
Signal Transforms......Page 107
Measuring a Signal......Page 108
Signal Processing......Page 113
Recording and Reproduction......Page 114
Comments and Further Reading......Page 118
Introduction and Motivation......Page 120
Systems and Their Models......Page 121
Interconnecting Systems......Page 126
Simplifying Assumptions......Page 128
Some Basic Systems......Page 130
Linear Systems......Page 135
System Analysis......Page 140
Synthesis of Linear Systems......Page 145
State Space Description of Linear Systems......Page 148
A Few Words about Discrete Time Systems......Page 149
Nonlinear Models......Page 150
Comments and Further Reading......Page 151
Introduction and Motivation......Page 153
Some Examples......Page 154
Stability of Autonomous Systems......Page 156
Linear Autonomous Systems......Page 158
Nonlinear Systems: Lyapunov Stability......Page 165
Non-Autonomous Systems......Page 168
Beyond Equilibria......Page 172
Sensitivity......Page 174
Comments and Further Reading......Page 180
Introduction and Motivation......Page 181
Internal Feedback......Page 182
Feedback and Model Uncertainties......Page 184
System Stabilization and Regulation......Page 186
Disturbance Rejection......Page 193
Two-Degrees-of-Freedom Control......Page 195
Feedback Design......Page 196
Discussion......Page 197
Comments and Further Reading......Page 198
Introduction and Motivation......Page 200
Information Flow......Page 203
Control Goals......Page 204
Open-Loop......Page 207
Closed-Loop......Page 211
Other Control Structures......Page 212
Distributed and Hierarchical Control......Page 216
Integrated Process and Control Design......Page 218
Comments and Further Reading......Page 220
Introduction and Motivation......Page 222
Sensors and Data Acquisition Systems......Page 225
The Controller......Page 231
Computer-Based Controllers......Page 234
Actuators......Page 236
Comments and Further Reading......Page 239
Introduction and Motivation......Page 241
Control Design......Page 245
Local Control......Page 247
Adaptation and Learning......Page 255
Supervision......Page 261
Optimization......Page 262
General Remarks......Page 265
Comments and Further Reading......Page 266
Introduction......Page 267
Medical Applications......Page 268
Industrial Applications......Page 270
Societal Risks......Page 276
Comments and Further Reading......Page 277
From Analog Controllers to Distributed and Networked Control......Page 278
From Automatic Manipulators to Humanoid Robots......Page 283
Artificial Intelligence in Control......Page 285
Systems and Biology......Page 289
Comments and Further Reading......Page 292
References......Page 294
Index......Page 300
