Control Systems Links

Web sites

• Control Engineering Virtual Library:
  http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/extras/Virtual_Library/Control_VL.html
• Teaching Resource Center for Process Control at Univ of Texas, Austin:
  http://www.che.utexas.edu/cache/trc/t_process.html
• Process Control at Univ of Newcastle, UK:
  http://lorien.ncl.ac.uk/ming/Dept/Swot/connotes.htm

Software for analysis and design of control systems

• MATLAB with Control System Toolbox: http://mathworks.com/products/control/
• LabVIEW with Control and Simulation Module: http://www.ni.com/academic/controls.htm
• Ch Control System Toolkit: http://softintegration.com/products/toolkit/control/
• Control Station: http://www.controlstation.com/
• VISSIM: http://www.vissim.com/
• Octave - an open source  MATLAB clone: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/,  http://techteach.no/octave/
• Scilab and Scicos - free almost clones of MATLAB/SIMULINK: http://scilab.org, http://scicos.org, http://home.hit.no/~finnh/scilab_scicos/
• SimView - a collection of freely available simulators: http://techteach.no/simview
• TechVid - a collection of freely available video lectures: http://home.hit.no/~finnh/videos/

Organizations

• Norsk Forening for Automatisering: http://www.nfaplassen.no
• The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA): http://www.isa.org
• International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC): http://www.ifac-control.org/
• IEEE Control Systems Society: http://www.ieeecss.org/
• Control Engineering: http://www.manufacturing.net/ctl/
• The European Union Control Association (EUCA): http://www.esi2.us.es/~euca/
• PROST: http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/prost/

Blogs:

• Modeling and Control: http://www.modelingandcontrol.com/

Bookstores, libraries:

• SpringerLink: http://www.springerlink.com/home/main.mpx
• Amazon: http://amazon.com

Updated 15. April 2008. Finn Haugen (finn@techteach.no).