BISON ACADEMY

Courses taught in the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Dakota State University

 

ECE 461: Controls Systems

Resources & Reference Material

 

Syllabus - HW & Solutions - Resources - Comments


Text Books:

       Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods, by bernard Friedland ($22 new)

       Linear System Theory and Design, by Chi-Tsong Chen ($88 used)

       Linear Systems, by Thomas Kalith ($19 used)

       Schaum’s Outline on Controls Systems ($10 used)

 

Reference Material

       2nd Order Approximations

 

Matlab

       Download Matlab (link to NDSU license)

       Matlab for Beginners

 

Altair Embed (a.k.a. VisSim)

       Download student (free) version

 

HP35s Calculator

       RPN and Stacks

       Complex Numbers

       Solving f(x) = 0

       Phasor Analysis

 

SciLab Information:

       Tutorial on using SciLab

       Download the latest version of SciLab (link here)

       SciLab version 5.3.3

       Controls System Toolbox for SciLab 5.3.3.

       Instructions for the Control Systems Toolbox