Intelligent Control Systems with LabVIEW

Book Preface

Control systems are becoming more important every day. At the beginning, the industry used sequential controls for solving a lot of industrial applications in control systems, and then the linear systems gave us a huge increase in applying automatic linear control on industrial application. One of the most recent methods for controlling industrial applications is intelligent control, which is based on human behavior or concerning natural process.

Nowadays, the topic of intelligent control systems has become more than a research subject to the industry. The number of industrial applications is growing every day, faster and faster. Thus, new software and hardware platforms are required in order to design and develop intelligent control systems. The challenge for these types of systems is to have a novel platform, which allows designing, testing and implementing an intelligent controller system in a short period of time. For the industry and academy, LabVIEW™ is one of the most important software platforms for developing engineering applications and could be connected with different hardware systems, as well as running standalone programs for simulating the controller’s performance (validating the controller by simulation then implementing it). In addition, LabVIEW is a graphical program that is very easy to learn.

Taking into account these advantages, the software platform described in this book is LabVIEW from National Instrumentsâ„¢. The book is divided into 7 chapters and gives all the information required for designing and implementing an intelligent controller.