ECE 461: Controls Systems

Modeling and Control of Dynamic Systems

Spring 2013

 

 

Bison Academy

Syllabus

Sample Projects

Problems and Solutions

 

Instructor:        Jake Glower (Jacob_glower@yahoo.com)

TA:                  Andrew Taylor

Office:             ECE 201A

Text:                Any book with the title ‘Controls Systems’ and contains root locus plots

·         www.half.com

·         www.amazon.com

·         www.directtextbook.com

Some suggestions:  (don’t worry about the edition – get the least expensive one)

·         Controls Systems:  Norman Nise ($18 used)

·         Schaum’s Outline on Controls ($14)

SciLab:

·         Home Page (for downloading the latest version) (http://www.scilab.org/)

·         SciLab 5.1.1 Toolbox (link here for zip file)

·         SciLab 5.3.3 Toolbox (link here for zip file)

 

 

All Lectures in One File (click here): 


 

Date

Topic

Video

Homework

Labs

M

Jan 7

 

 

 

 

W

Jan 9

Syllabus

 

F

Jan 11

LaPlace Transforms

 

M

Jan 14

Block Diagrams & VisSim

Video

HW #1

Solution #1

Using VisSim

(problem 6-8 in homework set #1)

W

Jan 16

1st and 2nd Order Approximations

Video

F

Jan 18

State-Space and Canonical Forms

 

M

Jan 21

Holiday!

 

HW #2

Solution #2

 

W

Jan 23

SciLab and MATLAB

Video

F

Jan 25

Transfer Functions for Electrical Circuits

Heat Equation

 

M

Jan 28

Transfer Functions for Mass Spring Systems: Wave Equation

 

HW #3

Solution #3

Motor Dynamics

zip

W

Jan 30

Rotational Systems & Gears

 

F

Feb 1

Motor Dynamics

 

M

Feb 4

LaGrangian Dynamics

Video

 

 

W

Feb 6

Review

 

F

Feb 8

Test #1

 

M

Feb 11

Snow Day

 

HW #4

Solution #4

 

W

Feb 13

Error Constants

 

F

Feb 15

Routh Criteria

 

M

Feb 18

Holiday!

 

HW #5

Solution #5

 

W

Feb 20

Feedback and Root Locus

Video

F

Feb 22

Sketching a Root Locus Plot

Video

M

Feb 25

Gain Compensation

Video

HW #6

Solution #6

 

W

Feb 27

Lead Compensation

Video

F

Mar 1

PID Compensation &

Meeting Design Specs

 

M

Mar 4

Systems with Delays

 

 

 

W

Mar 6

Multi-Loop Feedback

 

F

Mar 8

Gantry System

 

M

Mar 11

Holiday!

 

 

 

W

Mar 13

Holiday!

 

F

Mar 15

Holiday!

 

M

Mar 18

Snow Day

 

HW #7

Solution #7

Speed Control

Pdf  -  zip

W

Mar 20

Lightly Damped Systems

 

F

Mar 22

Unstable Systems

 

M

Mar 25

Review

 

 

 

W

Mar 27

Test #2

 

F

Mar 29

Holiday!

 

M

Apr 1

Holiday!

 

HW #8

Solution #8

W

Apr 3

z-transform

 

F

Apr 5

Root Locus in the z-Domain

 

M

Apr 8

PID Compensation in the z-domain

 

HW #9

Solution #9

Digital Control

Hex files:  k007.zip

W

Apr 10

Bode Plots

 

F

Apr 12

Nichols Charts

 

M

Apr 15

Snow Day

 

HW #10

Solution #10

Nichols Chart

Nyquist Diagram

Inverse Nyquist Diagram

W

Apr 17

Nyquist & Inverse Nyquist Diagrams

 

F

Apr 19

Phase Margin and Gain Compensation

 

M

Apr 22

Lead Compensation - Lag Compensation

 

 

 

W

Apr 24

Meeting Design Specs in the Frequency Domain

 

F

Apr 26

Review

 

M

Apr 29

Test #3

 

 

 

W

May 1

Modern Control

 

 

 

F

May 3

Review for Final

 

 

 

 

 

Final Exam:

 

 

 

 

 


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