Page 885 - Mechanical Engineers' Handbook (Volume 2)

Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook: Instrumentation, Systems, Controls, and MEMS, Volume 2, Third Edition.

Edited by Myer Kutz

Copyright  2006 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

INDEX
A Admittances, 39. See also Impedance(s)
chordal, 53–54
Absolute encoders, 391 computing, 40–41
Acceleration error coefficient (c ), 389 in series/parallel, 39–40
2
Accelerometers, 84, 390
ADP, see Approximate dynamic
Accuracy, 5, 117 programming
of data, 213–214 Advance operator, 378
of servomechanisms, 621–625 Aeronautics, 444
thermocouple, 144
Aliasing, 185, 198, 199
ACFM (actual cubic feet per minute), 175
Alloys, 134
Achieved temperature, 132 AlNiCo magnets, 552, 553
ac impedance bridge transducers, 111–115 Alterables (term), 269
capacitive, 114–115 Alternate hypothesis, 23
inductive, 112–114
Alternating-current (ac) servomotors, 557–
Acoustic velocity probes, 172–173
562
Across variables (term), 303, 304 dc servomotors vs., 546
ac servomotors, see Alternating-current mathematical models of, 559–562
servomotors
types of, 557–559
Action blocks, 684, 685 American Standard Code for Information
Action-dependent HDP (ADHDP), 816– Interchange (ASCII) code, 849
817 Ammeters, 834–835
Actual cubic fee per minute (ACFM), 175 Amplifiers, 311
Actuators, 392–399 function of, 386
electromechanical, 392–394 linear, 569
hydraulic, 394–396 PWM, 569–572
pneumatic, 396–399 Amplitude condition, 518–526
Actuator compensation, 804–806 Amplitude–frequency response tests, 96
Adams–Bashforth corrector methods, 356, Analogs (term), 314, 315
357 Analog computation, 492, 494–500
Adams–Moulton corrector methods, 356, Analog controllers, 669–672
357 Analog Devices (company), 872, 874
Adaptive control, 441–442, 797–798 Analog electronics, 826–840
Adaptive critics, 816 circuit analysis in, 831–833
Adaptive reinforcement learning, 809–810 definitions used in, 827–828
A/D converters, see Analog-to-digital electrical elements in, 828–831, 832
converters examples of, 838–840
Adders, 249, 406, 407 RL/RC transient response in, 835–838
Addition: sources/meters in, 834–835
binary, 846 Analog filters, 191–198
block diagram of, 456, 457 Butterworth, 193–194
Boolean, 248 elliptical, 195, 196
ADHDP, see Action-dependent HDP inverse Tchebyshev, 195, 196
Adhesives, 77 least squares method of designing, 196,
Adjustment, 279 197

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