本书旨在帮助读者通过较短时间的学习能较大幅度地提高专业英语阅读和英译中的能力，具有题材广泛、内容丰富、专业性和实用性强的特点。
全书共有20篇课文，主要包括自动控制理论基础、模拟和数字电子技术、传感器和控制工程等方面的内容。每课都由课文、生词表、注释、翻译技巧讲解、英译中和中译英的练习及阅读材料组成，具有较强的知识延伸性。
本书可以作为自动化、电气工程及其他相关专业的专业英语教材，也适用成人教育及职工培训，并可作为教学参考书和相关专业的工程技术人员的自学用书。

Lesson 1 Introduction to Control systems
Lesson 2 Introduction to Mathematical Models of Physical Systems
Lesson 3 Basic Control Actions and Industrial Automatic Control(1)
Lesson 4 Basic Control Actions and Industrial Automatic Control(2)
Lesson 5 Design and Compensation Techniques
Lesson 6 Nonlinear Control Systems
Lesson 7 Introduction to Phase—plane Analysis
Lesson 8 Discrete—time systems and the z—transform method
Lesson 9 State—space Analysis of control systems
Lesson 10 Introduction to liapunoy stability analysis
Lesson 11 Introduction to optimal control systems
Lesson 12 Analog amplifier
Lesson 13 Basic circuits of operational amplifiers
Lesson 14 CMOS Logic Circuit
Lesson 15 Introduction to Sensors
Lesson 16 Introduction to PID Controllers
Lesson 17 Introduction to PLC
Lesson 18 CAD and CAM
Lesson 19 Intelligent control and its dimensions
Lesson 20 Introduction to Robotics
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