Control system design guide : using your computer to understand and diagnose feedback controllers / George Ellis

Includes bibliographical references.

Important safety guidelines for readers -- Introduction to controls -- The frequency domain -- Tuning a control system -- Delay in digital controllers -- The z-domain -- Six types of controllers -- Disturbance response -- Feed-forward -- Filters in control systems -- Introduction to observers in control systems -- Introduction to modeling -- Nonlinear behavior and time variation -- Seven steps to developing a model -- Encoders and resolvers -- Basics of the electric servomotor and drive -- Compliance and resonance -- Position-control loops -- Using the Luenberger observer in motion control -- Appendix A: Active analog implementation of controller elements -- Appendix B: European symbols for block diagrams -- Appendix C: The Runge-Kutta method -- Appendix D: Development of the bilinear transformation -- Appendix E: The parallel form of digital algorithms -- Appendix F: Basic matrix math -- Appendix G: Answers to end of chapter questions.