Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Control Fundamentals

Author: Yang Xianqi
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book combines the content of excellent domestic and international textbooks with practical examples of mechanical control engineering and new theories, introducing the fundamental theories, analytical methods, design processes, and computer simulation programs of engineering control in a step-by-step manner. It aims to cultivate students' ability to use the ideas and methods of cybernetics to analyze and solve control problems in the field of mechanical engineering. This book is designed for the automatic control engineering course for mechanical engineering majors in higher education institutions. The entire book is divided into 11 chapters, systematically introducing the analysis methods of linear time-invariant control systems, including basic concepts and characteristics of control theory, transfer functions, simplification of transfer functions in electromechanical control systems, time-domain and frequency-domain responses and characteristic parameters of systems, system stability and error, as well as system compensation design methods. The book also covers the analysis methods of discrete control systems, the basics of nonlinear systems, and the fundamental theory of state space. Unlike classical linear theories, nonlinear system theory and state space theory focus on the overall system and process evolution, revealing the essence of practical problems more effectively. The book emphasizes the different analytical methods between them. The book's main feature is that it takes control problems in electromechanical engineering as the leading theme, closely integrating theory with practice, and highlighting the thinking and methods of control theory in problem-solving. By using a comparative approach, it introduces practical control problem analysis examples, making it convenient for readers to study independently. This book can serve as a textbook for undergraduate students majoring in mechanical engineering and automatic control, and is also suitable as a reference for postgraduate students and technical personnel in related fields.