BISON ACADEMY

Courses taught in the

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

North Dakota State University

ECE 463/663: Modern Control

Syllabus: Spring 2026

Updated 06/12/2025

Syllabus - HW & Solutions - Resources - Comments

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Instructor: Jacob Glower

Email: Jacob.glower@ndsu.edu
Class Times: MWF 10am, ECE 123 & on Zoom

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	Date	Topic	Lecture YouTube PlayList	Handouts	Code Used in lecture	Homework
M	Jan 12	Holiday	0: Intro to ECE463			HW #1
W	Jan 14	Syllabus Sides #0 MATLAB Review Slides #1	1 Matlab Review
F	Jan 16	LaPlace Transforms Slides #2	2 LaPlace Transform	2 1^st &2^nd Order Approx - 2^nd Order Approximations
M	Jan 19	Holiday				HW #2
W	Jan 21	State Space Slides #3	3 State Space	3 State Space
F	Jan 23	Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors Slides #4	4 Eigenvalues	4 Eigenvalues	Heat
M	Jan 26	Canonical Forms & Similarity Transforms Slides #5	5 Canonical Forms	5 Canonical Forms	Ball BallDisplay BallDynamics	HW #3
W	Jan 28	LaGrangian Dynamics Slides #6	6 LaGrangian Dynamics	6 LaGrangian Dynamics	Cart CartDisplay CartDynamics
F	Jan 30	Cart & Pendulum System Slides #7	7 Cart & Pendulum		Gantry GantryDisplay GantryDynamics
M	Feb 2	Ball and Beam System Slides #8	8 Ball and Beam		Beam BeamDisplay BeamDynamics	HW #4
W	Feb 6	Dynamics of a 2-Link Robot Slides #9	9 2-Link Robot		TwoLink TwoLinkDynamics
F	Feb 8	Dynamics of a Double Pendulum Slides #10	10 Double Pendulum DP Demo		Cart2 Cart2Display Cart2Dynamics
M	Feb 9	Controllability / Observability Slides #11	11 Controllability		Gantry2 Gantry2Display Gantry2Dynamics	Test #1
W	Feb 11	Review
F	Feb 13	Test #1
M	Feb 16	Holiday				HW #5
W	Feb 18	Full-State Feedback Slides #12	12 Feedback
F	Feb 20	Bass Gura Slides #13	13 Bass Gura		Heat
M	Feb 23	Pole Placement: Heat Eq Slides #14	14 PPL Heat			HW #6
W	Feb 25	Pole Placement: Cart & Pendulum Slides #15	15 PPL Cart
F	Feb 27	Servo-Compensators Slides #16	16 DC Servo Comp
M	Mar 2	SC for Sinusoidal Setpoints Slides #17	17 AC Servo Comp		Step3	HW #7
W	Mar 4	Generalized Servo-Compensator Slides #18	18 General Servo
F	Mar 6	Full-Order Observers Slides #19	19 Full Order Observers
M	Mar 9	Holiday
W	Mar 11	Holiday
F	Mar 13	Holiday
M	Mar 16	The Separation Principle Slides #20	20 The Separation Principle			HW #8
W	Mar 18	Observers and Disturbances Slides #21	21 Observers and Disturbances
F	Mar 20	Reduced Order Observers Slides #22	22 Reduced order Observers
M	Mar 23	Test #2: Q & A				Test #2 Take-Home Due Sunday Midnight
W	Mar 25	Test #2: Q & A
F	Mar 27	Test #2: Q & A
M	Mar 30	Calculus of Variations Slides #23	23: Calc of Var			HW #9
W	Apr 1	The Ricatti Equation Slides #24	24: Ricatti Eq
F	Apr 3	Holiday
M	Apr 6	Holiday				HW #10
W	Apr 8	Optimal Control (LQG) Slides #25	25: LQG
F	Apr 10	LQG Control with Multiple Inputs Slides #26	26: LQG MI
M	Apr 13	LQG Control with Servo-Compensators Slides #27	27: LQG & Servo			HW #11
W	Apr 15	LQG with MIMO Servo-Compensators Slides #28	28: MIMO LQG
F	Apr 17	LQG Observers Slides #29	29: LQG Observers
M	Apr 20	Kalman Filters Kalman Filter Example Slides #30	30: Kalman Filters			HW #12
W	Apr 22	LQG/LTR Control Slides #31	31: LQG/LTR
F	Apr 24	LQG/LTR with Servo-Compensators Slides #32	32: LQG/LTR Servo
M	Apr 27	VSS and Saturating Control Slides #34	34: VSS			HW #13
W	Apr 29	Pink Noise and Noise Cancellation Slides #33	33: Pink Noise
F	May 1	Follow-On Courses Adaptive Control, Robust Control, Multivariable Control, Nonlinear Control, Robotics, Self-Tuning Regultors
M	May 4	Test #3				Test #3 Take-home test Due Sunday Midnight
W	May 6	Q & A: Test #3 & Homework #13
F	May 8	Q & A: Test #3