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Index Analog lters (continued ) prototype circuit for, 197, 198 Tchebyshev, 194195 Analog instruments, 118 Analog simulation, 352 Analog-to-digital (A / D) converters, 211, 425, 852 Anchoring, 279 AND (Boolean multiply), 246, 247 Angle condition, 518526 Angular velocity, 391 ANSYS, 867, 868 Antifuse switch, 252 A percent linearity or nonlinearity, 118 119 Apollo spacecraft, 444 Application-specic integrated circuits (ASICs), 241 Approximate dynamic programming (ADP), 794795, 815816, 819820 APT (Automatically Programmed Tools) language, 697, 706709 Arbitrary frequency response curve tting, 196, 197 Architecting phase (system design), 289 290 Armature-controlled dc motors, 392, 393 ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) code, 849 ASICs (application-specic integrated circuits), 241 Asking approach to requirements identication, 268 Aspirated probes, 151 Astable multivibrators, 243 Asymptotic stability, 475 Asynchronous serial data transfer, 852, 853 A-type element, 305, 307, 312 Autocorrelation function, 363 Automatically Programmed Tools language, see APT language Automobile suspension, 41, 43 Automotive industry, 444 Availability of information, 279 Available temperature, 132 Backlash, 500, 661, 805806 Backlash nonlinearity, 372 Backstepping neurocontrollers, 801 Balanced-design actuators, 574, 575 Baldwin Lima Hamilton (BLH) Corporation, 73 Bandpass lters, 203204 Band reject lters, 204205 Bandwidth, 340 Bang-bang control problem, 442 Bartlett window, 200, 201 Base rate, 279280 Beam exure used in accelerometer, 84 Behavioral evaluation, 294295 Behind the Tape Reader (BTR), 697 Bell Labs, 444 Bellows, 396, 397 Bent-axis piston servomotors, 575, 576, 578 Best straight line, 94 Binary addition, 846 Binary numbers, 844847, 849 addition of, 846 of different size, 844845 and hexadecimal numbers, 845846 twos complement of, 846847 Bipolar drive PWM ampliers, 570 Bipolar shunting, 97, 98 Bipolar-wound stepper motors, 564, 567 Bistable multivibrators, 243 Bits, 845 Black, H. S., 444 Blackman window, 200, 201 BLH Electronics, 73, 80 Block diagram reduction, 457460 Block diagrams, 328330, 456460 addition, 456, 457 of control systems, 384386 multiplication, 457 reduction of, 457460 takeoff point, 457 transfer functions of cascaded elements, 458460 Blocks, programming, 702, 705706 Bode, H. W., 444 Bode diagrams / plots, 339343, 345, 347, 349, 419, 421, 508 Boiler-generators, 440 Bolted assemblies, fatigue in, 52 Bonding adhesives, 77

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Back emf, 393 Backing material, strain-gauge, 76