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

Edited by Myer Kutz Copyright 2006 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Absolute encoders, 391 Acceleration error coefcient (c2), 389 Accelerometers, 84, 390 Accuracy, 5, 117 of data, 213214 of servomechanisms, 621625 thermocouple, 144 ACFM (actual cubic feet per minute), 175 Achieved temperature, 132 ac impedance bridge transducers, 111115 capacitive, 114115 inductive, 112114 Acoustic velocity probes, 172173 Across variables (term), 303, 304 ac servomotors, see Alternating-current servomotors Action blocks, 684, 685 Action-dependent HDP (ADHDP), 816 817 Actual cubic fee per minute (ACFM), 175 Actuators, 392399 electromechanical, 392394 hydraulic, 394396 pneumatic, 396399 Actuator compensation, 804806 AdamsBashforth corrector methods, 356, 357 AdamsMoulton corrector methods, 356, 357 Adaptive control, 441442, 797798 Adaptive critics, 816 Adaptive reinforcement learning, 809810 A / D converters, see Analog-to-digital converters Adders, 249, 406, 407 Addition: binary, 846 block diagram of, 456, 457 Boolean, 248 ADHDP, see Action-dependent HDP Adhesives, 77 Adjustment, 279 Admittances, 39. See also Impedance(s) chordal, 5354 computing, 4041 in series / parallel, 3940 ADP, see Approximate dynamic programming Advance operator, 378 Aeronautics, 444 Aliasing, 185, 198, 199 Alloys, 134 AlNiCo magnets, 552, 553 Alterables (term), 269 Alternate hypothesis, 23 Alternating-current (ac) servomotors, 557 562 dc servomotors vs., 546 mathematical models of, 559562 types of, 557559 American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) code, 849 Ammeters, 834835 Ampliers, 311 function of, 386 linear, 569 PWM, 569572 Amplitude condition, 518526 Amplitudefrequency response tests, 96 Analogs (term), 314, 315 Analog computation, 492, 494500 Analog controllers, 669672 Analog Devices (company), 872, 874 Analog electronics, 826840 circuit analysis in, 831833 denitions used in, 827828 electrical elements in, 828831, 832 examples of, 838840 RL / RC transient response in, 835838 sources / meters in, 834835 Analog lters, 191198 Butterworth, 193194 elliptical, 195, 196 inverse Tchebyshev, 195, 196 least squares method of designing, 196, 197

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