An Overview of Applied Control Engineering

1.1    HISTORICAL REVIEW

In this section, we give a brief historical review of the major developments in the area of modern control systems. We shall attempt to discuss the development of classical control and its evolution into modern and robust control. The emphasis of our discussion is directed toward applying the control systems design method within which the framework of this book is based.

Applied control engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors. The practice uses sensors to measure the output performance of the device being controlled and those measurements can be used to give feedback to the input actuators that can ...

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