25411: Linear Control Systems
Course Name: Linear Control Systems
Course Number: 25411
Prerequisite(s): 25742 (Signals and Systems)
Co-requisite(s): -
Units: 3
Level: Undergraduate
Last Revision: Fall 2020

Description
This course aims to introduce fundamental principles, concepts, and methods for feedback control systems analysis and design.
 
Syllabus:
  • Introduction to control systems, necessity, objectives, applications, components of a control system
  • Mathematical modeling of systems, linearization, transfer functions, block diagrams, signal flow graph
  • State space models, conversion between transfer function and state space, state transition matrix
  • Feedback control system characteristics, benefits, and drawbacks
  • Performance of feedback control systems based on transient and steady-state responses
  • Stability of linear feedback systems, stability of  transfer function models, stability of state-space models
  • Root Locus method, concepts, procedures, controller design with Root Locus
  • Frequency response, polar plot, Bode plots, performance specifications in the frequency domain
  • Stability in the frequency domain, Nyquist criterion, Stability Margins and Sensitivity function
  • Design of feedback control systems, Lead, Lag, Lead-Lag, and PID controllers, fundamental limitations, implementation
References:
  • Katsuhiko Ogata, Modern Control Engineering, 5th ed., 2009
  • Richard C. Dorf and Robert H. Bishop, Modern Control Systems, 12th ed., 2011
  • Norman S. Nise, Control Systems Engineering, 7th ed., 2015

 
Last Update: 2024-09-11