An extraordinary fact about tbe human race has been that 'Man' was born as a 'Man-inventor and discoverer'. The history of the inventions done by man is no way less old than the history of man itself. Man has the ability to control his environments and their effect upon his life. Modern societies have developed efficient methods for heating and cooling to provide year-round comfort.
Jn the process of development, man produced machine and man himself was only necessary to control in detail the various perations that are required to complete any process. Slowly, the machines and the processes become more complicated. Also quick and accurate results were desired in most of the processes. Man became unable to perfectly control his own machine. It was in this context that it was tried to replace the human controller by same form of automatic controller which would precisely and speedily do what the man wants. The use of analog and digital computers has revolutionised the automatic control systems.
This book Useful for Civil Engineering Students.
1.Laplace Transforms
2. Introduction to Control Systems
3. Transfer Function
4. Block Diagrams and Signal Flow Graphs
5. Error Deductors and Transducers
6. Servo Amplifiers
7. Servo Motors
8. Miscellaneous Components
9. Specifications of a System
10. System Stability
11. Nyquist Stability Method
12. Bode Plot Method
13. Root LocusTechnique
14. Design Techniqan
15. State Variable Characterization
16. Non-Linear Control Systems
17. Discrete Time Systems
18. Optimal Control Theory
19. Stochastic Control System
20. Self-Adaptive Control Systems
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