General and Introductory Material (Stage 1 and above)

• A brief history of feedback control
• Introduction to Statistical Process Control (Stage 2 and above)
• Charles William's Feedback and Temperature Control simulation
• John Shaw's notes on the
  • PID Algorithms and Tuning Methods
  • Ziegler-Nichols Closed Loop Tuning Method
  • more
• F.G. Shinkey on Averaging Level Control
• Tom Marlin's Interactive Process Control Interactive Learning Modules, based on his book, Process Control: designing processes and control systems for dynamic performance, McGraw Hill, New York, 2000. (ISBN 0-07-039362-1). Also, solutions to selected questions/exercises from the book.
• MATLAB
  • Control tutorials for MATLAB and SIMULINK (Carnegie Mellon)
  • Control Systems Toolbox tutorial (by TechTeach)
  • Dr. Qammar from the Uni. of Akron, has made available a load of MATLAB m.files used in his process control classes
• Process Dynamics (Stage 2 and above)
  • Overview of Mechanistic Modelling
  • Examples of Simple Mechanistic Models
  • Differential Equations 
  • Laplace Transforms
• Poles and Zeros - an interactive tutorial
• And from The Readout Instrumentation Signpost
  • Acronyms and Initials used in Control and Instrumentation
  • Process Control and Instrumentation resources
• Tuning of PID controllers - a set of procedures by Abdul Aziz Ishak
• A complete course in Automatic Process Control by Prof. Tom Edgar of Uni. Texas at Austin

Intermediate Level (Stage 3 and above)

• Process Control 2 notes by Mark Willis
  • Control of Level
  • PID Control
  • Some Conventional Control Schemes
  • Selecting a Distillation Column Control Strategy (a basic guide).
  • Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor Models

• Multivariable Systems and Control
  • Multivariable Control: an introduction  - a set of notes by Mark Willis introducing multivariable control and relative gain analysis
  • Introduction to decoupling control - continues with multivariable systems; input-output structures and decoupling networks that can alleviate problems associated with loop interactions. And the overheads to go with the notes (set 1 and set 2). 
• Advanced Process Control - what is it? A set of control notes that does not contain equations.

• Digital Control (Stage 4 Control 4)
  • Introductory Notes: Process Computer Implementation Strategies; Mathematics of sampled data systems; Discrete PID controllers
  • Design of simple digital controllers
  • Dynamic models for controller design
  • Minimum variance and generalised minimum variance control

• Robust Control study notes (Stage 4, Control 3)
  • Introduction to Frequency Response
  • Plotting Frequency Response
  • Frequency Responses of Typical Systems
  • Frequency Response of 2nd-order Underdamped System
  • Applications of Frequency Response Techniques
  • Useful things to remember when applying Frequency Response Techniques
  • Sensitivity Functions
  • Brief Notes on Vector Norms
  • Optimality of Control
  • Model uncertainties
    • example on how to quantifying modelling uncertainties
  • Robust stability and robust performance
  • Internal Model Control
• Dealing with Measurement Noise gives an introduction to noise filtering (Stage 3, Process Measurement)
• Inferential Estimation and Control - what it is and why we need it.
• Review of Methods for Nonlinear Control - a set of notes by Mark Willis
  
• Controlling vessels and tanks - a revealing article by Walter Driedger.
• Model Uncertainty and Robust Control - a paper by Prof. Karl Astrom of Lund University, Sweden
• Process control tutorials based around Tom Marlin's book (McMaster Uni.)
• Reducing energy costs by optimizing controller tuning - a paper by Aidan O’Dwyer

Advanced Level (MSc. and above)

• Fuzzy Logic tutorial from the Seattle Robotics Society
• Fuzzy Systems - A Tutorial
• Neural Networks
  • Introduction to Neural Networks
  • The Perceptron provides a good introduction into the mechanism of the perceptron
  • Neural Networks FAQ
  • Bibliography of Lie theory and Neural Networks collected by Yves Moreau

See also resources in Measurement and Instrumentation

Another good collection of Process Control Resources

e-Journals relevant to Process Control and Automation accessible from computers at Newcastle University

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence in Engineering
• Automatica
• Control Engineering Practice
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• Expert Systems with Applications
• International Journal of Control
• Sensors and Actuators B:Chemical
• Signal Processing
• Systems and Control Letters