Automation and Control

Аннотация

This book presents recent information on automation and control, a field that deals with a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes using predetermined criteria and actuator relationships and embodying this predetermination in machines based on digital equipment and algorithms. Automatic control includes the use of various control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, telephone networks, and ships, aircraft, and vehicles with reduced intervention, intelligent process monitoring, and optimal decision making based on practical measurements. Automation and control applications range from home control applications to large industrial control systems with tens of thousands of input measurements and output control signals, process monitoring, and centralized management policies.