Using Accelerometer as Inertial Measurement Unit

Before I start, I am going to answer some question that might pop-up in your mind when you read the title.

Q: What is accelerometer?

A: For the sake of simplicity accelerometer is a device that measures acceleration including gravitation and vibration.

Step by step Control System Design

Many experienced practising control engineer are surely able to design a control system. For those of you who wish to be a professional control engineer, you can expect and should consider the designing of a control system as part of your daily life. This post is intended to share little bit of my knowledge about designing a control system. Well actually this is just about as far I know about control design. ^^

The process of designing a control system usually makes many demands of the engineer or engineering team. These demands often emerge in step by step design procedure as follows:

1. Study the system (plant) to be controlled and obtain initial information about the control objectives.
2. Model the system and simplify the model, if necessary.
3. Analyze the resulting model; determine its properties.