Recent content by jaredokie

I'm doing my best to understand signals and systems. So I will give an example of what I'm talking about. you have a pressure transducer that has a 24vdc power supply and a voltage of 0-5vdc to measure the change in pressure, with the 0-5vdc connected to an analog to digital converter. With the...

So it's an instantaneous measurement of input to response events that are being caused by system noise or a ramp sequence?

What frequency are they referring to when they plot magnitude versus frequency in a bode plot of a control system? I don't understand where frequency comes from in control systems. I've researched this and I'm still very confused by what is meant by frequency.

In your opinion is it useful as a learning tool to better understand signal processing and simulations?

Have you heard of Maple 18 Personal Edition?

Are there any software programs for purchase that allow control system modeling and design for individual use under $1000

Has anyone tried or heard of Maple 18 Personal Edition? I'm looking for individual software programs that I can use.

Ok. I just want to thank everyone for your help and knowledge. I'm a mechanical engineer. I realize now I should have become an electrical engineer. Again thanks for clearing up some stuff.

Is that similar to a field programmable gate array?

I am trying to understand the process of a digital pid controller that operates with/in a Windows operating system. By process I mean the sequence of steps a computer software system takes to adjust the output of the system whether the process be cruise control, temperature, pressure etc. So I'm...

Is the laplace transform the most commonly used transform? And does a temperature controller already have the needed heat transfer equations built into the program? For instance Eurotherm temperature controllers. All that is needed are tuning parameters right?

I work around pid control. I'm trying to understand the design process of temperature controllers

When speaking of filtering noise of an input or output, are the texts referring to the actual electrical components of a digital pid controller? Capacitors, resistors etc...

Ok. I'm sorry for being dense, but what do you mean by spatial variation?

So why did he use sine and cosine functions for heat analysis? Orthogonal reasons?