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CONTROL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING HANDBOOK: A Practical Guide to Feedback Loops, Transfer Functions, Block Diagrams, Root Locus Plots, Bode Frequency Response and Tracking Accuracy for Undergraduates - Softcover
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Did the lecture move on to the root locus before you were sure what a pole actually was?
Have you ever followed a derivation to the exact line where the textbook writes "it can be shown that" — and lost it there?
Do you raise the gain, watch the loop start hunting, and turn it back down without knowing why it did that?
This book was written for the space between those moments. It builds every result from stated assumptions, shows the intermediate steps that get skipped, and explains each idea twice: once from first principles, and once in the language of the plant floor, with the failure mode named. Every worked example carries the full calculation, unit by unit. Every practice problem has a complete solution, not a bare answer — an answer without reasoning teaches nothing to a reader who got it wrong.
By the end you will be able to:
- Turn a physical system — mechanical, electrical or electromechanical — into a differential equation, and that equation into a transfer function you can manipulate.
- Predict how a system responds in time, and state its overshoot, rise time and settling time before you build it.
- Decide whether a closed loop stays bounded, and find the exact range of gain over which it does.
- Calculate the steady-state error a loop will hold, and change the loop so the error disappears.
- Read a plant's behaviour from its frequency response and know how much margin you have before it goes unstable.
- Design a compensator that meets a written specification by either classical method, and know why the two agree.
- Tune a controller in the field, and understand what the tuning rule assumes about your process.
- Put the finished compensator on a processor without the discrete implementation quietly undoing your design.
The examination date does not move. The interview question gets asked. The loop that hunts at two in the morning keeps hunting until someone understands why. Every week you postpone the underlying mathematics, the distance widens between passing the course and being the engineer other people call when the loop misbehaves.
Add Control Systems Engineering Handbook to your cart, and start the first chapter today while there is still time to work through it properly rather than in a rush.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Did the lecture move on to the root locus before you were sure what a pole actually was?Have you ever followed a derivation to the exact line where the textbook writes "it can be shown that" - and lost it there?Do you raise the gain, watch the loop start hunting, and turn it back down without knowing why it did that?This book was written for the space between those moments. It builds every result from stated assumptions, shows the intermediate steps that get skipped, and explains each idea twice: once from first principles, and once in the language of the plant floor, with the failure mode named. Every worked example carries the full calculation, unit by unit. Every practice problem has a complete solution, not a bare answer - an answer without reasoning teaches nothing to a reader who got it wrong.By the end you will be able to: Turn a physical system - mechanical, electrical or electromechanical - into a differential equation, and that equation into a transfer function you can manipulate.Predict how a system responds in time, and state its overshoot, rise time and settling time before you build it.Decide whether a closed loop stays bounded, and find the exact range of gain over which it does.Calculate the steady-state error a loop will hold, and change the loop so the error disappears.Read a plant's behaviour from its frequency response and know how much margin you have before it goes unstable.Design a compensator that meets a written specification by either classical method, and know why the two agree.Tune a controller in the field, and understand what the tuning rule assumes about your process.Put the finished compensator on a processor without the discrete implementation quietly undoing your design.The examination date does not move. The interview question gets asked. The loop that hunts at two in the morning keeps hunting until someone understands why. Every week you postpone the underlying mathematics, the distance widens between passing the course and being the engineer other people call when the loop misbehaves.Add Control Systems Engineering Handbook to your cart, and start the first chapter today while there is still time to work through it properly rather than in a rush. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798170645336
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