Control systems are used in a wide range of engineering applications and industries, to enable a system (an aircraft) to respond in some desired way when subjected to some form of external input. This chapter examines some of the basic control tools and definitions that need to be understood before the application of control systems to aeroelastic systems, such as the science of aeroservoelasticity. The Laplace Transform is one of the key mathematical tools used to model control systems. Control systems are used to influence the behaviour of the system that is being controlled, in particular to manipulate the response to different inputs. The simplest and most commonly used type of control strategy is the proportional‐integral‐derivative (PID) controller. The proportional term determines the speed of the response, the integral term improves the accuracy of the final steady state, while the derivative term helps to stabilize the response.
Introduction to Control
2014-12-02
14 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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