Practical Control Engineering for Mechatronics and Automation [Hardcover]

Preface. Mechatronic Systems. Industrial Automation and Control. Discretization of Linear Systems. System Identification. State Space Modeling.? PID Control. Model-Based Control. Multiple Loop Control Schemes. Digital Control Design. PLCs and Sequential Logic Control. Logic Control with State Machines. Multilevel Automation. Hybrid Dynamical Control. Cyber Physical Systems. Index.

Production processes and engineered systems involve continuous and discrete variables, and the combination of continuous and sequential operation regimes. This volume covers both aspects thus provides substantial knowledge in continuous and discrete control, logic control, as well as hybrid control systems.

Production processes and engineered systems use continuous and discrete variables, as well as the combination of continuous and sequential operations. This volume covers both aspects, thus providing knowledge in continuous and discrete control, logic control, and hybrid control systems. It is a compilation of selected control strategies to automate processes and systems with a practical approach to ease their design, analysis and implementation. The selection of the control schemes is based on the capability to provide desired dynamical response or real time performance. Practicality is required for achieving faster development times of automation projects or system prototypes by comprehensive presentation and direct application of methodologies and techniques for efficient and structured programming of control algorithms. Considered methodologies include model-based design, hardware in the loop simulations and structured programming. Fundamental signals and systems concepts are explained. Systems and controllers are analyzed using discrete-time equations, which ease their implementation in most programmable platforms without requiring sophisticated software. PID based control, internal model control and model reference control are viewed alƒ: