Control Engineering Problems with Solutions 7 Preface Preface The purpose of this book is to provide both worked examples and additional problems, with answers only, which cover the contents of the two ‘Control Engineering: An introduction Bookboon books with the use of Matlab’ and ‘An Introduction to Nonlinearity in Control Systems’
Control theory is a relatively new field in engineering when compared with core topics, such as statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, etc Early examples of control systems were developed actually before the science was fully understood For example the fly?ball governor developed by James Watt to control
1 CONTROL SYSTEMS: BASICS 1 1 1 What is Control Systems 1 1 2 Classification of Systems 1 1 3 Classification Based on the Parameters 2 1 4 Analysis of Control Systems 3 1 5 General Classification: Open and Closed-Loop Systems 3 1 6 Elements of Automatic or Feedback Control Systems 5 1 7 Requirements of Automatic Control Systems 6 2