This features the only interactive demonstration of an oven controlled by a PID controller. Controller Tuning and Control Loop Performance , A Primer, 2nd edition, by David W. St. Clair, gives some good practical insights into control loop operation and tuning. The Technical Information at Academic Instituitions Site at Techexpo is an other useful resource. Prof. Douglas J. Cooper hosts a Process modeling, monitoring and control lab at the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Connecticut. A recent addition to the Quality Homepage is their Education Section which includes Degree Courses which can be completed over the Net.
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The NASA site is well known and provides lots of information on the US space programme. This is situated not in the Saragossa Sea as its name might imply but well inland at the University of Pittsburg. The Institute for Scientific Information is a database publishing company that produces reference products in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. CRAN Research Center for Automatic control of Nancy contains links to interesting research project groups in production engineering, signals and instrumentation and continuous process automation. This has lots of links to interesting control topics.