Anyone know any decent tutorials on control theory. I must model a windturbine. but just need something to help me go through the process of modelling it and then using the laplace transfrom so i can draw the block diagram. ANY tutorial. it doesnt have to be a windturbine. any device that was modelled. I've kind of learned it before and am trawling through old notes but i'd love to find something that just ran through the details of it to save time.

 not a good reply earlier, so I edited it out. 

Edited October 17, 201015 yr by skyhook

what type of software are you using?

 

If you are not using software, this still might be good:

 

http://host.nigde.edu.tr/sayasun/documents/dc-motor-published.pdf

 

But depending what this is for, what you are trying to do doesn't seem broad, but you make it sound like it is. Unless you are just trying to model a system that experience some type of input then goes through a damping, and has a feedback and output? Thats the most general I can think of, is feedback control.

 

Which for feedback control, this looks good: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.129.1850%26rep%3Drep1%26type%3Dpdf&rct=j&q=feedback%20control%20theory&ei=Hdq8TJeCF8-aOr2u8c8M&usg=AFQjCNGttvlPjx1pUNhkHIHAVDGeZGSwvA&sig2=jbgjae6IxnDFoRWXjlsukQ&cad=rja, it opens straight to a PDF, but is legit.

Edited October 18, 201015 yr by darkenlighten

These lecture notes are pretty good ,and the intro is a bit more gentle:

 

http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/gv/p6/

 

Lecture 2 is probably the most important to get your head around.

 

Post again if any probs.