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.

• IntroductionTools for the Control EngineerSoftware Toolkit: MATLABSoftware Toolkit: SimulinkModelling and Block DiagramsSimple Systems: first-order behaviorSimple Systems: second-order behaviorFeedback improves system performanceDesign Specifications on System Time ResponsePoles, Zeroes and System StabilityThree Term Control: PID ControlPID Control: The Background to Simple Tuning MethodsRoot Locus for Analysis and DesignThe Frequency DomainFrequency Response using Bode Plot PresentationController Design using the Bode plotAnalysis and Simple Design using the Nichol's chartPractical Aspects of PID controlPID Controller Tuning MethodsIntroducing a State Variable Description of a SystemLinearisation of Systems from the Non-linear WorldAnalysis of State Variable SystemsAn introduction to Control using State Variable System Models.