Discontinuous Automatic Control / / Irmgard Flugge-Lotz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Flugge-Lotz, Irmgard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1953
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2166
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 p.)

Discontinuously working elements (on-off controls) are widely used in automatic control systems. From an engineering point of view they are attractive because they are nearly always Simpler, more rugged, and cheaper to build than continuous controls. But prediction of their effects in the controlled system is sometimes so complicated that engineers have avoided discontinuous control where it would have been preferable to continuous control.Originally published in 1953.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. DISCONTINUOUS CONTROL OF A MOVING BODY WITH A SINGLE DEGREE OF FREEDOM -- 1. THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION OF MOTION -- 2. DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTROLLING MECHANISM -- 3. THE SOLUTION OF THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION OF MOTION AND ITS CONTINUITY QUALITIES -- 4. COMPLETE THEORY OF THE MOTION WITH POSITION CONTROL -- 5. COMPLETE THEORY OF THE MOTION WITH VELOCITY CONTROL -- PART II. INFLUENCE OF CONTROL MECHANISM IMPERFECTIONS ON THE MOTION OF A BODY WITH A SINGLE DEGREE OF FREEDOM -- 6. EFFECTS UPON MOTION WITH POSITION CONTROL -- 7. EFFECTS UPON MOTION WITH VELOCITY CONTROL -- PART III. DISCONTINUOUS CONTROL OF A MOVING BODY WITH MORE THAN ONE DEGREE OF FREEDOM -- 8. THE LONGITUDINAL MOTION OF A MISSILE -- APPENDIX I. TABLE VII AND VIII -- APPENDIX II. CONSTRUCTION OF LOGARITHMIC SPIRALS BY AN APPROXIMATE METHOD -- INDEX