ASE3093: Automatic Control

Announcements

  • Lecture videos from several years back are here.

  • Welcome to ASE3093: Automatic control.

Course Info.

Course descriptions

  • Undergraduate entry level control course covering dynamic system modeling, Laplace transform and transfer functions, frequency domain analysis, state space descriptions, classical control design techniques, stability margins, and so on.

Instructors

Lectures

  • Tue/Thr 10:30-11:45 (Rm.217 @aerospace campus)

Office hours

  • JHK: Tue/Thr 16:00-17:30 (Rm.507), or by appointments.

Reference textbooks

  • Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, by Franklin, Powell, and Emami-Naeini, 8th ed.

Grading policy

  • Final exam (40%)

  • Midterm exam (30%)

  • Homework assignments (30%)

Course contents and reference notes

  1. Feedback and closed-loop systems

  2. Dynamic modeling of mechanical systems

  3. Dynamic modeling and linearization

  4. Linear dynamical systems and Laplace transform

  5. Describing linear dynamical systems

  6. Impulse response

  7. Time domain responses and stability

  8. Block diagrams and feedback interconnection

  9. Block diagram algebra

  10. Poles and eigenvalues

  11. Steady state error and system types

  12. Steady state error rejection

  13. Effects of pole locations on time domain responses

  14. Root locus and design examples

  15. Frequency response

  16. Frequency domain analysis

  17. Bode plots

  18. Stability margin

  19. Nyquist stability criteria

  20. Summary

Computational exercises

The link directs to the associated Jupyter notebook file, which opens on Google Colaboratory when the “Open in Colab” button is clicked.

  1. Feedback systems

  2. Linearization

  3. Solutions of linear homogeneous ODEs

  4. Python control systems library

  5. Step responses and dominant poles

  6. Root locus

  7. Bode plots, Nyquist plots, and stability margins

Assignments

  1. Homework #1 (due 4/9)

  2. Homework #2 (due 4/19)

  3. Homework #3 (due 4/30)

  4. Homework #4 (due 5/7)

  5. Homework #5 (due 6/1)

  6. Homework #6 (due 6/10)

  7. Homework #7 (due 6/18, optional)

Sample exams

  1. 2018 Midterm and solutions

  2. 2018 Final and solutions

  3. 2020 Midterm