Control Systems

by William Bolton

Overview

Working through this student-centred text readers will be brought up to speed with the modelling of control systems using Laplace, and given a solid grounding of the pivotal role of control systems across the spectrum of modern engineering. A clear, readable text is supported by numerous worked example and problems.* Key concepts and techniques introduced through applications* Introduces mathematical techniques without assuming prior knowledge* Written for the latest vocational and undergraduate courses

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080529981
Publisher:	Butterworth-Heinemann
Publication date:	01/30/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Former Lecturer at Buckingham Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, UK, and now retired, William Bolton has worked in industry and academia as a senior lecturer in a college of technology, a member of the Nuffield Advanced Physics team, an adviser to a British government aid project in Brazil on technical education, as a UNESCO consultant in Argentina and Thailand, and as Head of Research and Development at the Business and Technician Education Council. He has written many engineering textbooks, including Mechatronics, 4th ed., Engineering Science, 5th ed., Higher Engineering Science, 2nd ed., Mechanical Science, 3rd ed., and Instrumentation and Control Systems.

Table of Contents

Preface; Control systems; System models; System response; System parameters; Frequency response; Nyquist diagrams; Controllers; Appendices; Answers; Index