Control Engineering

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.

Introduction.- Tools for the Control Engineer.- Software Toolkit: MATLAB.- Software Toolkit: Simulink.- Modelling and Block Diagrams.- Simple Systems: first-order behavior.- Simple Systems: second-order behavior.- Feedback improves system performance.- Design Specifications on System Time Response.- Poles, Zeroes and System Stability.- Three Term Control: PID Control.- PID Control: The Background to Simple Tuning Methods.- Root Locus for Analysis and Design.- The Frequency Domain.- Frequency Response using Bode Plot Presentation.- Controller Design using the Bode plot.- Analysis and Simple Design using the Nichol's chart.- Practical Aspects of PID control.- PID Controller Tuning Methods.- Introducing a State Variable Description of a System.- Linearisation of Systems from the Non-linear World.- Analysis of State Variable Systems.- An introduction to Control using State Variable System Models.