Switching power supplies rely on feedback control loops to ensure that the required voltage and current are maintained under varying load conditions. Design of the feedback control loop influences ...
Among all power factor correction (PFC) topologies, totem-pole bridgeless PFC provides the best efficiency; therefore, it is widely used in servers and data centers. However, closing the current ...
LED headlights in cars require precise intensity control over lifetime and over temperature. Automotive headlight control levels typically require multiple nested closed control loops to compensate ...
Power plants–especially coal-fired boilers–pose a set of process control problems unparalleled in other industries. Rapid load ramps, continuous unit demand changes, variable fuel quality and process ...
This is a case study of an actual engineering project in the Irvine Spectrum area of southern California, a 2-mile strip of land in south Irvine with a high density of medical instrument companies. A ...
Just over a decade ago, an article titled, "Advanced Control Strategies Move into the Field" (Control, October 2008), highlighted three evolving trends in the process control world that would "make ...