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In the previous chapters, different control design and tuning methods have been explained. In all of them, emphasis was placed on the need to simulate the behavior of the closed-loop control system to verify whether or not the design specifications are met. This chapter makes practical use of the knowledge acquired up to now to implement closed-loop control on the chosen examples from Chaps. 2 and 5. The entire process of modeling and system linearization has been studied in Chap. 2. In Chapter 5, the relationships between the physical parameters of the process and the inputs that define the operating point with the parameters of the transfer function that models the behavior of the process around that operating point were established. As usual in industrial practice, a linear system model, valid around an operating point, is used to design a controller that meets certain specifications. The linearized models of the systems introduced in Chap. 5 in the form of transfer functions are used in this chapter to design feedback control algorithms.

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    The design of phase-lead compensators for this system can be analyzed in [10], page 470.

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Guzmán, J.L., Costa-Castelló, R., Berenguel, M., Dormido, S. (2023). Control of Physical Systems. In: Automatic Control with Interactive Tools. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09920-5_9

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