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Authors:

• Victor Manuel Hernández-Guzmán ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7016-2561⁰,
• Ramón Silva-Ortigoza ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7540-489X¹

1. Victor Manuel Hernández-Guzmán

   1. Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Facultad de Ingenieria, Querétaro, Mexico
      

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2. Ramón Silva-Ortigoza

   1. Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIDETEC, Mexico City, Mexico
      

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This textbook presents theory and practice in the context of automatic control education. It presents the relevant theory in the first eight chapters,

applying them later on to the control of several real plants. Each plant is studied following a uniform procedure: a) the plant’s function

is described, b) a mathematical model is obtained, c) plant construction is explained in such a way that the reader can build his or her own plant to conduct experiments, d) experiments are conducted to determine the plant’s parameters, e) a controller is designed using the theory discussed in the first eight chapters, f) practical controller implementation is performed in such a way that the reader can build the controller in practice, and g) the experimental results are presented. Moreover, the book provides a wealth of exercises and appendices reviewing the foundations of several concepts and techniques in automatic control. The control system construction proposed is based on inexpensive, easy-to-use hardware. An explicit procedure for obtaining formulas for the oscillation condition and the oscillation frequency of electronic oscillator circuits is demonstrated as well.

• Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Facultad de Ingenieria, Querétaro, Mexico

  Victor Manuel Hernández-Guzmán

• Instituto Politécnico Nacional, CIDETEC, Mexico City, Mexico

  Ramón Silva-Ortigoza

Prof. Dr. Victor Manuel Hernández-Guzmán is a Professor at Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico, since 1995, where he teaches Classical and Modern (Linear and Nonlinear) Control in undergraduate and graduate academic programs. He is a researcher in the Automatic Control Systems field.

Prof. Dr. Ramón Silva-Ortigoza has been a Researcher at the Department of Mechatronics, CIDETEC-IPN, since 2006, being the author of several books in English and Spanish. His research interests include mechatronic control systems, mobile robotics, control in power electronics, and development of educational technology.

• Controller practical implementation
• Control systems design and construction
• Control systems experimental tests
• Control of mechanical systems
• Feedback electronic circuits
• Control of electromechanical systems
• Classical control
• State variable approach
• Structural limitations in classical control
• Limit cycles
• automatic control textbook
• low-cost control system

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