Control Basics for Mechatronics

by John Billingsley

Explanation

The book is published by Routledge - the links at the top will take you to its details. The 'sim' link will take you to a simulation site.
An important feature of the book is the numerous real-time simulations that illustrate each feature of control and mechatronics. In the EPUB and online versions, these can be linked with a simple click. Readers of the printed version will have been directed here by printed links. They need only remember the link to this page, to find any of the simulations, grouped by the chapter where they appear.
An alternative is to use this app to enter the simulation name into a box.

Chapter contents

1.  Why do you need Control Theory?  

2. Modelling time.

3. A simulation environment.
www.jollies.com
falling
fallingball
Segway

4. Step length considerations.
Step1-Euler
Step2-Exact

5. Modelling a second order system.
Motor1
Motor2
Motor3

6. The complication of motor drive limits.
Motor4
Motor5
MoveBlock
Phase1

7. Practical controller design.
Phase2
Motor6
Bike1
Bike2
Bike3
Bike4
Bike5

8. Adding dynamics to the controller.
Motor3
Motor7
Motor8
Discrete1
Discrete2
Phase3

9. Sensors and actuators.
Stepper

10. Analogue simulation.

11. Matrix state equations.

12. Putting it into practice.
Trolley1
Trolley2

13. Observers.
Trolley3
Trolley4

14. More about the mathematics.
Damping

15. Transfer functions.

16. Solving the state equations.
Phase4
Eigen1

17. Discrete time and the z operator.
Series1
Series2
Discrete2
Motor8
Motor9

18. Root locus.
Complex1
Complex2
Map1
Locus1
Locus2
Locus3
Locus4
Locus6

19. More about the phase plane.
Phase4
Phase5

20. Optimisation and an experiment.
Predictive1
Ballbeam1
BallbeamPred
Ballbeam2
Locus4
Ballbeam3
Locus5
Locus6

21. Problem systems.
Heater1
Heater2
Heater3
Heater4

22. Final comments.