Control System Design Guide

George Ellis has worked in product development for 35 years. He first experienced the concept of continuous improvement two decades ago through the Danaher Corporation, one of the world’s foremost lean thinking companies. Danaher transformed itself in the 1980s, modeling its Danaher Business System (DBS) on the Toyota Production System. Ellis has had numerous leadership roles at Danaher, including Vice President of Global Engineering for X-Rite from 2015 to 2018. In 2019, Ellis joined Envista Holdings Corporation, a new spin-off from Danaher for the dental industry, as Vice President of Innovation. There he spends every day immersed in lean knowledge work, deploying, improving, and sustaining new product development workflows in EBS, Envista’s brand of lean knowledge. He also wrote Project Management for Product Development, Control System Design Guide (4th edition), and Observers in Control Systems, all from Elsevier.

• 1. Introduction to Controls2. The Frequency Domain3. Tuning a Control System4. Delay in Digital Controllers5. The z-Domain6. Six Types of Controllers7. Disturbance Response8. Feed-Forward9. Filters in Control Systems10. Introduction to Observers in Control Systems11. Introduction to Modeling12. Nonlinear Behavior and Time Variation13. Model Development and Verification14. Encoders and Resolvers15. Basics of the Electric Servomotor and Drive16. Compliance and Resonance17. Position-Control Loops18. Using the Luenberger Observer in Motion Control19. Rapid Control Prototyping (RCP) for a Motion System

"...the new addition in this edition, rapid control prototyping for a motion system, [is] both timely and useful in smoothing the transition from simulation to an embedded, hardware solution." --Zhiqiang Gao, Associate Professor and Director, Center for Advanced Control Technologies, Cleveland State University