《普通高等教育“十二五”規劃教材·高等學校專業英語教材：測控技術與儀器專業英語》是普通高等教育“十二五”規劃教材，針對測控技術與儀器專業知識體系的經典內容和最新發展，精選國外經典英語原著、國外著名大學最近版本的教材以及IEEE和ACM等機構的TOP期刊與雜志的英文文獻，涵蓋了測量、電子、控制、機械、網絡、計算機等幾乎測控技術與儀器專業的全部課程領域。依據典型測控系統結構工作流程脈絡組織內容，使專業英語與測控技術與儀器專業知識體系深度有機結合，成為《普通高等教育“十二五”規劃教材·高等學校專業英語教材：測控技術與儀器專業英語》的創新點。
全書共6個部分、12個單元，包括綜述、信息獲取、信息處理、信息傳輸、信息控制和新技術，分別介紹了測控技術背景、數據采集、測試系統特性、傳感技術、信號描述、誤差理論、信號處理、通信網絡、自動控制、微機原理、軟件技術、精密機械，以及虛擬儀器和人工智能等先進測控技術。每個單元包括正文、注釋、難句解析和專業知識解釋，并配有相關拓展知識的閱讀材料。同時，每個部分后面分節介紹了專業英語閱讀、翻譯和寫作技巧。
本書可作為測控技術與儀器，電氣工程及其自動化、自動化等相關專業的教材，也可供相關領域的教師、科研人員參考。同時，本書選材廣泛，專業內容難度適中，其他專業的大專生、本科生、研究生及其他從業人員如果希望了解測控技術、自動化技術的概貌和新技術。可以選擇閱讀本書的部分內容。
Part 1 Overview
Unit 1 Measurement, Control and Instrumentation
Reading material 1 Mechatronics
Reading material 2 PC-Based Instrumentation and Control
專業英語的特點
Part 2 Information Acquisition
Unit2 Data Acquisition
Reading material 1 Measuring Instrument Characteristics
Reading material 2 Measurement Systems
Unit3 Smart Sensors
Reading material 1 Remote Sensing
Reading material 2 Wireless Sensor Network
常用符號和表達式
Part 3 Information Processing
Unit4 Error Principle
Reading material 1 Measurement Uncertainty
Reading material 2 Calibration
Unit5 Signal Description
Reading material 1 Sampling
Reading material 2 Modulation and Demodulation
Unit6 Signal Conditioning
Reading material 1 The Operational Amplifier
Reading material 2 Filters
專業英語翻譯技巧（一）
Part 4 Information Transmission
Unit7 Fieldbus
Reading material 1 Distributed Control System
Reading material 2 Industrial Ethernet
專業英語翻譯技巧（二）
Part 5 Information Control
Unit8 Automatic Control
Reading material 1 Laplace Transformation and Transfer Functions
Reading material 2 System Compensation and PID Controllers
Unit9 Microcontroller
Reading material 1 Automating with a PLC
Reading material 2 Object-Oriented Systems Design
Unit10 Nature of Mechanical Design
Reading material 1 Materials in Mechanical Design
Reading material 2 Design for Different Types of Loading
專業英語論文寫作基礎
Part 6 New Technology
Unit11 Virtual Instrumentation
Reading material 1 SCADA
Reading material 2 Non-Destructive Testing
Unit12 Artificial Intelligence
Reading material 1 Artificial Neural Networks
Reading material 2 Industrial Robot
常用英文文體寫作
附錄A 英文專業論文的投稿
附錄B 國內外自動化、電氣工程和測控類專業主要期刊
附錄C 常用基金項目的英文表達
參考文獻
Control engineering is the engineering discipline that focuses on the modeling of a diverse range of dynamic systems（e.g.mechanical systems）and the design of controllers that will cause these systems to behave in the desired manner.Although such controllers need not be electrical many ale and hence control engineering is often viewed as a subfield of electrical engineering.However,the falling price of microprocessors is making the actual implementation of a control system essentially trivial.As a result，focus is shifting back to the mechanical engineering discipline，as intimate knowledge of the physical system being controlled is often desired.
Electrical circuits，digital signal processors and microcontrollers Can all be used to implement control systems.Control engineering has a wide range of applications from the flight and propulsion systems of commercial airliners to the cruise control present in many modem automobiles.
In most of the cases，control engineers utilize feedback when designing control systems.This is often accomplished using a PID controller system.For example，in an automobile with cruise control the vehicle’S speed is continuously monitored and fed back to the system，which adjusts the motor’S torque accordingly.Where there is regular feedback，control theory Can be used to determine how the system responds to such feedback.In practically all such systems stability is important and control theory Can help ensure stability is achieved.
Although feedback is an important aspect of control engineering，control engineers may also work on the control of systems without feedback.This is known as open loop contr01.A classic example of open loop control is a washing machine that runs through a pre-determined cycle withoutthe use of sensors.
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