Automatic Control: The Power of Feedback -- Using MATLAB

Author: (English) Tafteh
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Publishing Date: 2002-05-01
Features: This book is one of the BookWare series launched by Brooks/Cole Publishing Company in 2000. It is an innovative textbook introducing automatic control, providing ideas, methods, examples, and exercises for students to solve a large number of automatic control problems using MATLAB on computers. The book primarily discusses the basic concept of "feedback," demonstrating how to use it to design various automatic controllers and introducing the concept of system stability. Additionally, it discusses how to stabilize a system using feedback and improve system performance. Finally, it designs a simple controller for a computer-controlled model car using theoretical, simulation, and experimental methods. Finally, it designs a simple controller for a computer-controlled model car (CIM-CAR-1) using theoretical, simulation, and experimental methods. The book is divided into 7 chapters: Introduction; System Models and Differential Equations; Solving Linear Differential Equations; Computer Simulation; Stability and Performance; Feedback; Computer-Controlled Model Cars. This book can serve as a reference book and supplementary textbook for undergraduate courses in automatic control and mechatronics, requiring students to have prior knowledge of calculus. It also holds significant reference value for teachers and researchers in the field of automatic control.