Introduction to Signal Processing, Instrumentation, and Control An Integrative Approach

This book stems from a unique and highly effective approach in introducing signal processing, instrumentation, diagnostics, filtering, control, and system integration.

It presents the interactive industrial grade software testbed of mold oscillator that captures the mold motion distortion induced by coupling of the electro-hydraulic actuator nonlinearity with the resonance of the mold oscillator beam assembly. The testbed is then employed as a virtual lab to generate input-output data records that permit unraveling and refining complex behavior of the actual production system through merging dynamics, signal processing, instrumentation, and control into a coherent problem-solving package.

The material is presented in a visually rich, mathematically and graphically well supported, but not analytically overburdened format. By incorporating software testbed into homework and project assignments, the book fully brings out the excitement of going through the adventure of exploring and solving a mold oscillator distortion problem, while covering the key signal processing, diagnostics, instrumentation, modeling, control, and system integration concepts.

The approach presented in this book has been supported by two education advancement awards from the College of Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Contents: Case Study and Introductory Topics; Introduction to Signals; First Look at Signal Processing, Filtering, and Instrumentation; Sampling Basics, Harmonic Signals, and Signal Spectrum; First Look at Projection and Fourier Series; Linear System Characteristics, Fourier Transform and Introduction to Filters; CT, DT and Digital Filter Design and Implementation; Introduction to Discrete-Continuous Spectral Analysis; Introduction to Control Systems: Basic Control Actions and Basic Controller Design; Appendices: Useful Mathematical Formulas; System Classification; Fourier Series; Fourier Transform; Laplace Transform; Basic Types of Sensors and Actuators; Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko Beam Models and Their Use in Software Testbed Development; Software Testbed Matlab Programs;

Readership: Researchers, academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students in signal processing.