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Basic Control Engineering: Fundamentals of Automatic Control Auto 1: Week 2 Day 1 2. Various Automatic Controls

This document discusses different types of automatic controls. It classifies controls based on their methodology, such as feedback and feed-forward controls. Feedback control uses information about the system output to adjust performance to meet the desired output. Optimal control evaluates process variables to achieve the desired outcome. Feed-forward control passes a controlling signal from an external source to a load in the external environment.

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Basic Control Engineering: Fundamentals of Automatic Control Auto 1: Week 2 Day 1 2. Various Automatic Controls

This document discusses different types of automatic controls. It classifies controls based on their methodology, such as feedback and feed-forward controls. Feedback control uses information about the system output to adjust performance to meet the desired output. Optimal control evaluates process variables to achieve the desired outcome. Feed-forward control passes a controlling signal from an external source to a load in the external environment.

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Basic Control Engineering

Fundamentals of Automatic Control


Auto 1: week 2 day 1
Objectives:
2. Various Automatic Controls
2.1 classify systematically automatic control in terms of
control methodologies
2.2 state what an optimal control means
2.3 explain briefly feedback control and feed-forward
control

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Fundamentals of Automatic Control
Classification of automatic control in terms of control
methodologies
Feedback
• What is feedback?
• Information that tells you how you’re doing
• Automatic controller uses feedback
– Difference between the Process Variable and the Set point (the error) tells
the controller how well it’s doing.
– The less the error, the better the performance
• Open loop control does not use feedback
– Example: timed lawn sprinkler system
• Even if it rains, the sprinkler turns on because it has no feedback that
tells it that the soil already has sufficient moisture
• Closed loop control depends on feedback

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Optimal Control
method for evaluating the time varying values of a certain
process variable, which aids in achieving the desired
outcome at the end of the process.

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feedback control
Feedback loops take the system output into consideration,
which enables the system to adjust its performance to meet
a desired output response.

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feed-forward control
Feed forward, is a term describing an element or pathway
within a control system that passes a controlling signal
from a source in its external environment to a load
elsewhere in its external environment.

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Basic Control Engineering
Fundamentals of Automatic Control
Auto 1: week 2 day 1
Summary
2. Various Automatic Controls
2.1 classify systematically automatic control in terms of
control methodologies
2.2 state what an optimal control means
2.3 explain briefly feedback control and feed-forward
control

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