Educational Notes provide a simple introduction
to the various technologies that are becoming increasingly prominent and relevant to
industry. These introductory texts are aimed at engineers with no prior knowledge of the
subject described and provide a basic understanding of the techniques involved.
List of Educational Notes
The following is a list of Educational Notes produced by the ACTC.
These are available to ACTC members free of charge.
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What is H∞ Optimal Control ?
(EN01)
What is Robustness ? (EN02)
Typical Robust Control Design Problems (EN03)
What is Self-Tuning Control ? (EN04)
A Note on Smith Predictor for the Control Process Plants with Significant Transport Delays (EN05)
Tutorial on Variable Structure Control for Industrial Users (EN06)
Simple Introduction to Kalman Filtering (EN07)
An Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation (EN08)
Mathematica and the Control System Professional (EN09)
Tutorial Introduction to Quantitative Feedback Theory (EN10)
The Riccati Equation & Optimal Control (EN11)
Diophantine Equations and their Application to Solving Control Problems (EN12)
What is Control Engineering and Why is it Critically Important (EN13)
Forthcoming:
Closed Loop Controller Performance Benchmarking
Gain and Phase Measurement for Non-linear Models