Modern Control Technology
Subtitle: Components and Systems
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Delmar Thomson Learning
Published: December 7, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780766823587
Subjects: Systems management; Science/Mathematics; Technology & Industrial Arts; Automation; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Automatic control
Description: "Modern Control Technology: Components and Systems, 2nd Edition, provides an introduction to automatic control systems and components that is both comprehensive and up-to-date. Logically organized, this book takes the reader on a journey through a control system. Each chapter examines a different functional part, followed by discussion of control units and control strategies that serves to put these parts together in a full-function control system.

Thoroughly updated, this edition features new material on decibels, levers, friction, clutches and brakes, tooth rotor tachometers, vision sensors, dynamic braking of DC motors, linear motors, and flux vector AC drives. Also included is new information on popular PIC and BASIC Stamp microcontrollers, plus expanded coverage of brushless DC motors and networking used in control systems."--BOOK JACKET.