After Midnight by Diana Palmer

After Midnight by Diana Palmer

The effectiveness of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers for a large class of process systems has ensured their continued and widespread use in industry. Similarly there has been a continued interest from academia in devising new ways of approaching the PID tuning problem.

To the industrial engineer and many control academics this work has previously appeared fragmented; but a key determinant of this literature is the type of process model information used in the PID tuning methods. PID Control presents a set of coordinated contributions illustrating methods, old and new, that cover the range of process model assumptions systematically. After a review of PID technology, these contributions begin with model-free methods, progress through non-parametric model methods (relay experiment and phase-locked-loop procedures), visit fuzzy-logic- and genetic-algorithm-based methods; introduce a novel subspace identification method before closing with an interesting set of parametric model techniques including a chapter on predictive PID controllers. Highlights of PID Control include:

an introduction to PID control technology features and typical industrial implementations;

chapter contributions ordered by the increasing quality of the model information used;

novel PID control concepts for multivariable processes.

PID Control will be useful to industry-based engineers wanting a better understanding of what is involved in the steps to a new generation of PID controller techniques. Academics wishing to have a broader perspective of PID control research and development will find useful pedagogical material and research ideas in this text.

Diana Palmer, the New York Times bestselling author of more than one hundred novels, is renowned as one of North America's top ten romance writers. She is a member of the Native American Rights Fund, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Cattleman's Association, the Planetary Society, the Georgia Sheriff's Association and numerous conservation and charitable organizations. Diana lives with her family in Cornelia, Georgia. Please visit her online at DianaPalmer.com.

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ISBN 13	9780786263424
ISBN 10	0786263423
Title	After Midnight
Author	Diana Palmer
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Publisher	Thorndike Press
Year published	2004-03-02
Number of pages	431
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