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Originally Posted by Justin Stiltner
Kevin, or others
Can you reccomend a good book or other refrence that would be a good starting point to learn this, as I am a computer networking major I dont get to take classes like control theory and cant afford the time nor cash to take the classes at the moment. But I am very intrested in the topics, I have researched PID control some but would like any more information I can get.  |
I can recommend Nise's
Control Systems Engineering. I also have Levine's
Control System Applications and
Control System Handbook, but I'm not sure I'd recommend these books as they're for control theory geeks (a good percentage of the latter book is pretty esoteric and over my head). A good supplemental book is Schaum's
Feedback and Control Systems. If I were you, I'd spend some time on the web, which has a wealth of control theory information. If you have access to a copy of MATLAB or Mathematica, there are many interactive demos available at the
Mathworks and
Wolfram Research web sites. I would also go over the the
LabVIEW forum and ask Danny Diaz if he can help you find some control theory apps for LabVIEW. There is also a freeware MATLAB-like application called
Scilab, that may have interactive control theory applications. These nifty interactive control theory applications are great for helping you develop your physical intuition of how things behave in the real world.
-Kevin