Feedback and Control for Everyone

Cover13; -- Title Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Feedback -- Block Diagrams, Systems, Inputs and Outputs -- More on Block Diagrams -- Feedback and Dynamics -- Systems, Causality, Stationarity and Linearity -- Models -- The Basic Control Loop -- Control Design -- Concluding Remarks -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 2: Analogies -- Introduction and Motivation -- Signals and Their Graphical Representation -- Signals and Analogies -- Example Systems -- How Similar Is the Behavior of These Example Systems? -- Discrete Time or Continuous Time? -- Analogous Systems -- Combining Systems and Splitting Distributed Systems -- Oscillations -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Illustrating Feedback and Control -- Introduction and Motivation -- Manufacturing Ceramic Tiles -- Gravity-Fed Irrigation Systems -- Servo Design for Antennae for Radio Astronomy -- Simple Automata -- Homeostasis -- Social Systems -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Signal Analysis -- Introduction and Motivation -- Signals and Signal Classes -- Signal Transforms -- Measuring a Signal -- Signal Processing -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 5: Systems and Models -- Introduction and Motivation -- Systems and Their Models -- Interconnecting Systems -- Simplifying Assumptions -- Some Basic Systems -- Linear Systems -- System Analysis -- Synthesis of Linear Systems -- State Space Description of Linear Systems -- A Few Words about Discrete Time Systems -- Nonlinear Models -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 6: Stability, Sensitivity and Robustness -- Introduction and Motivation -- Some Examples -- Stability of Autonomous Systems -- Linear Autonomous Systems -- Nonlinear Systems: Lyapunov Stability -- Non-Autonomous Systems -- Beyond Equilibria -- Sensitivity -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 7: Feedback -- Introduction and Motivation -- Internal Feedback -- Feedback and Model Uncertainties -- System Stabilization and Regulation -- Disturbance Rejection -- Two-Degrees-of-Freedom Control -- Feedback Design -- Discussion -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 8: The Control Subsystem -- Introduction and Motivation -- Information Flow -- Control Goals -- Open-Loop -- Closed-Loop -- Other Control Structures -- Distributed and Hierarchical Control -- Integrated Process and Control Design -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 9: Control Subsystem Components -- Introduction and Motivation -- Sensors and Data Acquisition Systems -- The Controller -- Computer-Based Controllers -- Actuators -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 10: Control Design -- Introduction and Motivation -- Control Design -- Local Control -- Adaptation and Learning -- Supervision -- Optimization -- General Remarks -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 11: Control Benefits -- Introduction -- Medical Applications -- Industrial Applications -- Societal Risks -- Comments and Further Reading -- Chapter 12: A Look at the Future -- Introduction -- From Analog Controllers to Distributed and Networked Control -- From Automatic Manipulators to Human.