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Control System Design

A control system manages, commands, directs, or regulates the behavior of other devices or systems using control loops. It can range from a single home heating controller using a thermostat controlling a domestic boiler to large Industrial control systems which are used for controlling processes or machines.

For continuously modulated control, a feedback controller is used to automatically control a process or operation. The control system compares the value or status of the process variable (PV) being controlled with the desired value or setpoint (SP), and applies the difference as a control signal to bring the process variable output of the plant to the same value as the setpoint.

For sequential and combinational logic, software logic, such as in a programmable logic controller, is used.

from  Control System - Wikipedia

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A real control system - how to start designing

Brian Douglas
26 min
Beginner
Video
Application

Let’s design a control system the way you might approach it in a real situation rather than an academic one. In this video, I step through a control problem and show how control theory is...

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Interactive Tool about PID tuning rules

Jose Luis Guzman, Karl Johan Astrom, Sebastian Dormido, Tore Hagglund, Manuel Berenguel, and Yves Piguet
Intermediate
App
Application

Hundreds of PID design methods are available in literature. Many of them are very similar and sometimes it is not straightforward to understand their purposes. This interactive software tool...

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Interactive Tool for PID understanding

Jose Luis Guzman, Karl Johan Astrom, Sebastian Dormido, Tore Hagglund, Manuel Berenguel, and Yves Piguet
Intermediate
App
Application

The module PID Basics is designed to explore the properties of a simple feedback loop by showing the time and frequency responses of a closed-loop system and demonstrating how these...

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MATLAB toolbox for control 101 course

Anthony Rossiter
Beginner
Software
Theory

Community toolbox project led by Anthony Rossiter and sponsored by MathWorks. The project incorporates input from various international collaborators. The aim is to make the developed...

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