====== Actuator Software: Internet Directory ======
 The vast majority of web information on actuator control comes from engineering, primarily electrical and robotic. The links below are a compiled list of the most helpful sites in **PID theory**, **MEMS design** and other engineering concepts related to actuator control. Also listed are a few tutorials for control in **MatLAB**, and **LabVIEW**.

===== Web Readings/General Information =====
  * [[http://www.comsol.com/showroom/product/mems/|Comsol]] is a numerical design software. It is helpful for designing MEMS actuators.

  * An introduction to [[http://www.engin.umich.edu/group/ctm/PID/PID.html|PID control theory]] from the University of Michigan.

  * [[http://www.bostontech.net/assets/files/Articles/ProgControl.pdf|Programmable Controllers, Theory and Implementation]]

  * [[http://www.robotics.utexas.edu/rrg/research/intel/|Robotics]] at the University of Texas.

  * [[http://www.autosar.org/index.php?p=1&up=2&uup=1&uuup=3&uuuup=0&uuuuup=0|AUTOSAR]] (Automotive Open System Architecture) for actuator control.

===== Software Tutorials =====
  * [[http://www.mathworks.com/help/toolbox/aeroblks/f3-16946.html|MatLab]] tutorial for actuator control.

  * [[http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/320998a.pdf|LabView]], a software for designing control interfaces.