Outline of control engineering

Branches

• Adaptive control
• Control theory - interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems. The usual objective of control theory is to calculate solutions for the proper corrective action from the controller that result in system stability.
• Digital control
• Energy-shaping control
• Fuzzy control
• Hybrid control
• Intelligent control
• Model predictive control
• Multivariable control
• Neural control
• Nonlinear control
• Optimal control
• Real-time control
• Robust control
• Stochastic control

  Mathematical concepts

• Complex analysis
• Differential equations
• Linear algebra
• Mathematical system theory
• Matrices
• Real analysis
• Variational calculus

  System properties

• Bode plot
• Block diagram
• Closed-loop transfer function
• Controllability
• Fourier transform
• Frequency response
• Laplace transform
• Negative feedback
• Observability
• Performance
• Positive feedback
• Root locus method
• Servomechanism
• Signal-flow graph
• State space representation
• Stability theory
• Steady state analysis & design
• System dynamics
• Transfer function

  Digital control

• Discrete-time signal
• Digital signal processing
• Quantization
• Real-time software
• sampled data
• System identification
• Z transform

  Advanced techniques

• Artificial neural networks
• Coefficient diagram method
• Control reconfiguration
• Distributed parameter systems
• Fractional-order control
• Fuzzy logic
• H-infinity loop-shaping
• Hankel singular value
• Kalman filter
• Krener's theorem
• Least squares
• Lyapunov stability
• Minor loop feedback
• Perceptual control theory
• State observer
• Vector control

  Tools

• Labview
• Matlab
• Simulink

  Controllers

• Embedded controller
• Closed-loop controller
• Lead-lag compensator
• Numerical control
• PID controller
• Programmable logic controller

  Control applications

• Automation and remote control
• Distributed control system
• Electric motors
• Industrial control systems
• Mechatronics
• Motion control
• Process Control
• Robotics
• Supervisory control

  Control engineering organizations

• Control System Integrators Association
• International Federation of Automatic Control

  Publications about control engineering

Persons influential in control engineering

• People in systems and control