11: Control Fundamentals
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- 11.1: Introduction to Control Fundamentals
- The scope of controller design and the need for modeling, using linear systems analysis.
- 11.2: Partial Fractions
- Applying partial fraction expansions to a signal created by solving LTI systems through the Laplace Transform method, to find the time-domain output signals.
- 11.3: Stability
- Stability in linear systems, in partial fraction expansions, and in general systems.
- 11.4: Representing Linear Systems
- The transfer function description of linear systems has already been described in the presentation of the Laplace transform. The state-space form is an entirely equivalent time-domain representation that makes a clean extension to systems with multiple inputs and multiple outputs, and opens the way to many standard tools from linear algebra. This section addresses writing linear systems in state-space form and the interconversion of state-space models and transfer functions.
- 11.5: Block Diagrams and Transfer Functions of Feedback Systems
- The use of block diagrams to model a feedback system, including the three external inputs that augment any such actual system and the derivation of these inputs.
- 11.6: PID Controllers
- Introduction to the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control law.
- 11.7: Example: PID Control
- Example illustrating the difference between a proportional-only, proportional-derivative only, and proportional-integral-derivative control system, addressing stability and bias.
- 11.8: Heuristic Tuning
- Transforming the characteristics of a step response to create a reasonable PID design; approximating the response curve by a first-order lag and pure delay.