Feedback and Control for Everyone

• Main Authors: Albertos, Pedro (Author), Mareels, Iven (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Engineering.; System theory.; Popular works.; Vibration.; Dynamical systems.; Dynamics.; Mechanical engineering.; Control engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Control.; Popular Science, general.; Systems Theory, Control.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.; Electrical Engineering.; Mechanical Engineering.

This well structured, intriguing and motivating book presents the basic ideas and understanding of control, signals and systems for readers interested in engineering and science. Through a series of examples that are regularly revisited from different perspectives, the book explores both the theory...

Table of Contents:

• Analogies
• Analogies
• Illustrating Feedback and Control
• Illustrating Feedback and Control
• Signal Analysis
• Signal Analysis
• Systems and Models
• Systems and Models
• Stability, Sensitivity and Robustness
• Stability, Sensitivity and Robustness
• Feedback
• Feedback
• The Control Subsystem
• The Control Subsystem
• Control Subsystem Components
• Control Subsystem Components
• Control Design
• Control Design
• Control Benefits
• Control Benefits
• A Look at the Future
• A Look at the Future.