Modern control engineering

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1. s1artibartfastJan 2023
   >Regarding manufacturing and machines/machining, any book or resources that stood out? I'm most familiar with the Machinery's Handbook.

   I went to a top tier school for MechE and Materials, and would recommend two intro books: Engineering Mechanics Statics by Meriam and Kriage and Shigley's Mechanical engineering Design in that order . If you fully understand the contents of these book, it probably puts you in the top 10% of mechanical engineering graduates.

   For a broader education, you can read Fundamentals of Heat and Mass transfer by Incropera, DeWitt, Bergmann & Lavine as well as Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics by Munson, Young & Okiishi.

   Understanding these two books will probably as well will probably put you in the top 1% of grads.

   If you have a strong background in mathematics, these mostly deal with applications of linear algebra and differentials, so the value is understanding the applications.

   From there, you can branch out. If applicable, Ogata's Modern Control Engineering and Tongu's Principles of vibration

   Most undergraduates dont really understand these due to the heavy application of Laplace and Fourier transforms, but are relevant if you want to build complex machines.

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2. harperleeSep 2022
   Modern Control Engineering, by Katsuhiko Ogata, I guess.
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3. Serow225Oct 2018
   Best intro control systems: "Modern Control Engineering", by Katsuhiko Ogata. Also available free, "Feedback Systems" by Karl Johan Åström and Richard Murray at http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/books/AM08/pdf/am08-compl...
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4. twawaaayApr 2023
   I don't. There simply isn't any tooling or literature to speak of. I have some experience using control engineering in my electronics projects and that's how I came up with the idea to use it for backend systems. I have researched and developed everything myself. I have used "Modern Control Engineering" by Katsuhiko Ogata, but really, mostly I just learned from the Internet.

   My initial motivation was to remove configuration. I have found, historically, that giving people options to configure very complex software more often than not results in problems, especially after original developers leave. More often than not these new people will not understand the implications or interactions between various settings and this will just cause problems. So my aim became to remove any options from the software and make sure it can perform autonomously and recover from wide range of, possibly unknown, situations. Which is exactly what control engineering is about if you think about it!

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5. lmilcinJul 2021
   I am using Optimal Control Theory An Introduction from Donald Kirk and Modern Control Engineering from Katsuhiko Ogata.

   Both are heavy in math, but are not that difficult (I studied theoretical math some 20 years ago and I can read them).

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