Regelungstechnik is an introductory course, which is compulsory for all Bachelor/Master students of mechanical engineering. It provides the future engineers with the basic knowledge and skills to (1) systematically handle tasks like signal processing, control and regulation, description of dynamic systems, and (2) find effective solutions to the problems which one faces in his area of expertise. The content of the course is as follows:

• Aims of control and regulation:
  examples of simple control, basic terminology, key definitions, functional diagram
• Steady-state behaviour of the closed loop elements (controlled systems, measuring and actuating devices) and closed loops:
  characteristic curves, linearisation of non-linear relations, error ratio
• Dynamic behaviour of the closed loop elements:
  differential equations for transfer performance, convolution, Laplace transform, transfer function, frequency response, Nyquist plots, Bode plots
• Stability of dynamic systems, especially of control loops:
  controller tuning, tuning rules, quality criterion, algebraic and geometric stability criteria
• Linear sampling control:
  description of time-discrete transfer systems with non-linear transfer elements: follow up control, control with switching controllers
• Mesh control loops:
  pre-regulation, connection of the disturbance variables, secondary manipulated variables and secondary process variables, cascade control, pilot control, reference variable filtering
• Multi-variable control:
  coupling and decoupling of control loops
• State space:
  introduction to state space control
• Event-discrete systems:
  introduction to types of description and analysis of event-discrete systems, like Petri nets, etc.

Please note: the lecture script (ISBN 978-3-8107-0067-4) and the exercises script (ISBN 978-3-8107-0068-1) are marketed by Verlag Mainz (www.Verlag-Mainz.de). They can be purchased either at the Verlag Mainz in Aachen or at the bookstores of Aachen.

LINK: The index of changes in the current edition of the lecture script "Regelungstechnik" (RT), compared to the earlier editions.