Automatic Control with Experiments

This textbook presents theory and practice in the context of automatic control education. It presents the relevant theory in the first eight chapters,

applying them later on to the control of several real plants. Each plant is studied following a uniform procedure: a) the plant’s function

is described, b) a mathematical model is obtained, c) plant construction is explained in such a way that the reader can build his or her own plant to conduct experiments, d) experiments are conducted to dete...