Control engineering

Control systems play a critical role in space flight.

Control engineering or control systems engineering is an engineering discipline that deals with control systems, applying control theory to design equipment and systems with desired behaviors in control environments. The discipline of controls overlaps and is usually taught along with electrical engineering, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering at many institutions around the world.

The practice uses sensors and detectors to measure the output performance of the process being controlled; these measurements are used to provide corrective feedback helping to achieve the desired performance. Systems designed to perform without requiring human input are called automatic control systems (such as cruise control for regulating the speed of a car). Multi-disciplinary in nature, control systems engineering activities focus on implementation of control systems mainly derived by mathematical modeling of a diverse range of systems.

• Automation engineering
• Electrical engineering
• Communications engineering
• Satellite navigation
• Outline of control engineering
• Advanced process control
• Building automation
• Computer-automated design (CAutoD, CAutoCSD)
• Control reconfiguration
• Feedback
• H-infinity
• Lead–lag compensator
• List of control engineering topics
• Quantitative feedback theory
• Robotic unicycle
• State space
• Sliding mode control
• Systems engineering
• Testing controller
• VisSim
• Control Engineering (magazine)
• Time series
• Process control system
• Robotic control
• Mechatronics
• SCADA

Further reading

• Christopher Kilian (2005). Modern Control Technology. Thompson Delmar Learning. ISBN 978-1-4018-5806-3.
• Bennett, Stuart (June 1986). A history of control engineering, 1800-1930. IET. ISBN 978-0-86341-047-5.
• Bennett, Stuart (1993). A history of control engineering, 1930-1955. IET. ISBN 978-0-86341-299-8.
• Arnold Zankl (2006). Milestones in Automation: From the Transistor to the Digital Factory. Wiley-VCH. ISBN 978-3-89578-259-6.
• Franklin, Gene F.; Powell, J. David; Emami-Naeini, Abbas (2014). Feedback control of dynamic systems (7th ed.). Stanford Cali. U.S.: Pearson. p. 880. ISBN 9780133496598.

External links

• Control Labs Worldwide
• The Michigan Chemical Engineering Process Dynamics and Controls Open Textbook
• Control System Integrators Association
• List of control systems integrators
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Mechatronics, Informatics and Control Group (MICG)
• Systems Science & Control Engineering: An Open Access Journal