Process Control: A First Course with MATLAB
Written from the perspective of a student, this text emphasizes the importance of computers in the modern age of teaching and practicing process control.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Process Control: A First Course with MATLAB
MATLAB Tutorial Sessions
MATLAB is a formidable mathematics analysis package. An introduction to the most basic commands that are needed for our use is provided. No attempts are made to be comprehensive. We do not want a big, intimidating manual. The beauty of MATLAB is that we need to know only a tiny bit to get going and be productive. Once we get started, we can pick up new skills quickly with MATLAB's excellent on-line help features. We can learn only with hands-on work; these notes are written as a "walk-through" tutorial - you are expected to enter the commands into MATLAB as you read along.
Session 1. Important Basic Functions
For each session, the most important functions are put in a table at the beginning of the section for easy reference or review. The first one is on the basic commands and plotting. Try the commands as you read. You do not have to enter any text after the "%" sign. Any text that follows "%" is considered a comment and can be ignored. To save some paper, the results generated by MATLAB are omitted. If you need to see that for help, they are provided on the Web Support. There is also where any new MATLAB changes and upgrades are posted. Features in our tutorial sessions are based on MATLAB Version 6.1 and Control System Toolbox 5.1.
| Important basic functions | |
|---|---|
| Calculation functions: | |
| General functions: | |
| cd | Change subdirectory |
| demo (intro) | Launch the demo (introduction) |
| dir (what) | List of files in... |
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