Credits:
Semesters Offered
Learning Objectives
- Understand the design and implementation of control systems for single-input single-output linear time-invariant systems
- Understand and be able to use the laboratory techniques, tools, and practices of control engineering
- Be able to report the results of their work in the laboratory accurately, in appropriate detail, and concisely
- Be able to specify components, implement a control systems, test and debug it, and appropriately report the results of a control design project
Topics Covered
- PID control
- Lead/Lag controller design
- Modeling and identification of linear time-invariant systems
- Implementation of control systems in a computer
- Saturation and other nonlinearities in control systems
- Techniques for understanding the effects of nonlinearity and compensating for it
- The linear quadratic optimal regulator
- Switching controllers