An Introductory Guide to the Control of

This text provides the practising engineer with a review of the current techniques and applications of machine control. The control of machines is essential in the manufacturing process in order to produce products with more speed, efficiency and accuracy. The range of machinery dependent upon control by a dedicated computer is very broad, encompassing sheet metal feeding machines, operating at a few cycles per minute to textile machines, some parts of which rotate at a hundred thousand revolutions per minute.

Keith Foster is the author of An Introductory Guide to the Control of Machinery, published by Wiley.

Series Editor's Foreword
About the Author
Author's Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Independent Drives	p. 9
Digital Control Systems	p. 31
Programmable Systems	p. 59
The Control of Distributed Actuators	p. 85
Measuring and Correcting	p. 111
Specifying and Improving Performance	p. 139
Formulating Equations for the Computer	p. 175
System Parameters, Controller Implementation and Self-tuning	p. 191
Power Rate	p. 213
The Operational Amplifier	p. 215
A Comparison of the Equations of Motion of Electric and Hydraulic Drives	p. 217
Rules for Plotting the Root Locus	p. 223
Auto-correlation and Cross-correlation to Obtain System Parameters	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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An Introductory Guide to the Control of Machinery

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