Welcome to the ACTC Industrial Control Resource Centre

This Resource Centre is part of the services of the Applied Control Technology Consortium to its members and the larger industrial control community. It is intended to compliment the many existing control engineering resources that are currently available on the Internet, by being much more industry focussed. This is reflected in the division of the resources into Applications, Technologies and Systems.

You will find below a breakdown of the entire Resource Centre to help you find information quickly. These resources are made up of deliverables produced by the ACTC, those that are available on the Internet and also interesting and relevant articles.

Please note that the ACTC deliverables are only available to ACTC members. You can check if your company is a member here. (If your company is not currently a member, you can find out the benefits of joining here.)

The Resource Centre is still under going major construction. We would be delighted to hear from anyone wishing to add relevant links to these pages. You can email us with your links, suggestions and comments on this site. We will try to incorporate these into our developments.

Control Systems

• An Overview of Industrial Control Systems
• Control Systems Hardware
  • DCS (Distributed Control Systems)
  • PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers)
  • Embedded Controllers
• Commuications Protocols for Industrial Control Systems
• Sensor and Actuators
• Alarm Handling Systems

Routes for Control Systems Design and Improvement

• An Overview of Control Systems Design and Improvement Routes
  • Dynamic Systems Modelling
  • Discrete Event Modelling
  • Simulation Methods - See also the various CACSD Tools (below)
• Computer Aided Control Systems Design Tools
  • Matlab/Simulink
  • Matrixx/SystemBuild
  • ProcessACT/UNAC
  • ADAMS
  • Easy5
  • Beacon
  • Mathematica
  • Others
• Commissioning and Tuning Tools - See also PID Control

Applications

• Process Control - In general and applications otherwise not explicitly listed below
• Power Generation and Distribution
• Metals Processing
• Food and Drink Manufacture
• Servo-mechanisms
• Automotive
• Aerospace
• Marine Systems
• Pulp and Paper
• Oil and Gas

Techniques

• Self-tuning and Adaptive Control
• Classical Control - Anything not covered under PID
• Discrete Time Control
• Condition Monitoring and Fault Tolerant Control
• Filtering, Prediction and Smoothing
• Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Control
• Genetic Algorithms
• Model Based Control Techniques - Anything not covered under Predictive Control
• Neural Networks
• PID Control
• Predictive Control
• Robust Control
• Statistical Process Control
• System Identification
• Restricted Structure Control

Miscellaneous

• Companies
• Academic Groups
• Organisations and Groups - Non-commercial
• Control Engineering Standards

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