Case Studies in Computer Control

This document brings together under one cover details relating to the computer control of three vert different processes, these being (i) Longwall coal cutting (ii)Electric vehicle testing (iii) A pilot distillation column These applications all pose very interesting problems of process modelling and control systems design and provide a good test of modern control theory. It is chiefly for these reasons that the processes have formed the core of the author's research work over several years.