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• DYNAMIC SYSTEMS
• TRANSFER FUNCTION MODELS
• Integrator
• Time constant
• Second order system
• Time delay
• Transfer function (with two poles and one zero)
• PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
• Liquid tank with valve and pump outlets
• Blending tank
• Heated tank
• Mass-spring-damper
• RC-circuit
• DC-motor
• STABILITY
• Stability and poles
  
  
• SIGNALS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING
• SIGNALS
• White and coloured noise
• SAMPLING PHENOMENA
• Signal quantizer
• Aliasing at sampling
• FILTERING/FREQUENCY RESPONSE
• Measurement filter
• Filter types
• SPECTRAL ANALYSIS
• Spectral analysis
• TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS
• Correlation
  
  
• CONTROL
• APPLICATIONS (INCL. BASIC PID TUNING)
• You - the controller!
• Level control of water tank
• Level control of wood chips tank. (Version 1, old.)
• Level control of wood chips tank. (Version 2, new in December 2023. Somewhat simpler simulator model than in version 1.)
• Temperature control of liquid tank
• Dynamic positioning
• Control of separator train
• Speed servo
• Level control of buffer tank
• Control of an Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system
• PRACTICAL PROPERTIES OF PID-CONTROLLERS
• Anti wind-up
• Discrete-time PID controller
• Reverse and direct action of a PID controller
• Reducing control kicks in PID controller
• Serial and parallel PID controller
• Bumpless transfer PID controller
• Pulse Width Modulated (PWM) PID control signal
• Measurement noise in control loop: See Level control of wood chip tank
• CONTROL METHODS
• Cascade control of heat exchanger
• Cascade control of product temperature in vessel
• Feedforward control of liquid level. (Version 1, old.)
• Feedforward level control. (Version 2, new in February 2024. Using mass flow instead of volumetric flow, thereby simplifying the model somewhat comparing with version 1.)
• Feedforward control of tank temperature
• Feedforward control of heat exchanger temperature
• Gain scheduling
• Control of product quality and flow including ratio control
• Multivariable control using linear decoupling
• Smith-predictor (Dead-time compensator)
• On/off controller: See Temperature control of liquid tank
• ANALYSIS OF CONTROL SYSTEMS
• Frequency response of a PID control system
  
  
• LOGICAL AND SEQUENTIAL CONTROL
• Sequential control of a batch process
  
  
• ESTIMATION AND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION
• Kalman Filter

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 Updated 16 April 2024 by Finn Aakre Haugen. E-mail address: finn@techteach.no.