Lec1 1 Introduction to Automatic Control Systems

What is “Control”? What is “Automatic Control”? Definitions of system, Control system, Plant, Process, Disturbance, Controlled Variable, Actuator, Manipulated Variable, Transducer, Error signal. Classification of control systems: 1- Manual vs. Automatic Control systems. 2- Open Loop vs. Closed Loop Control Systems. 3- Feedback vs. Feed Forward Control systems. Real life Examples of Automatic control system: 1- Antenna Azimuth Position Control System 2- Water tank level control 3- Blood Glucose Control in Diabetes Patients: Open-Loop+Closed-Loop 4- Mean arterial pressure (MAP) 5- Car control system (Direction) 6- Car control system (Speed) 7- Car control system (Direction + Speed) 8- House automatic heating system 9- DC motor speed control: Open-Loop+Closed-Loop 10- Disturbance Rejection References: Control Systems Course, professor Aniket Khandekar, Zeal college of engineering and Research, Pune. Modern Control Systems, Prof. Amr E. Mohamed, University of Helwan. Katsuhiko Ogata - System Dynamics (4th Edition) (2003, Prentice Hall) Gopal, M. - Digital Control and State Variable Methods. Tata McGraw Hill (2003). Gopal, M. - Control Systems_ Principles and Design 3rd edition-Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co. Ltd. (2008) التحكم الآلي /1/ د. بلال عبد الكريم شيحا، جامعة تشرين، 2008. Dr. Isam Asaad د. عصام اسعد