Date | | | | Topic | Readings | Assigned | Due |
Sep 4 | Wednesday | 1 | | Welcome, feedback control, and LTI systems (slides, notes) | Ogata 1.1-1.5 FPE 1.1-1.5 | HW 1 (code) | |
Sep 9 | Monday | 2 | | Modeling LTI systems (notes) | Ogata 2.2, 2.4-2.5, 3.2-3.3 FPE 2.1-2.3 | | |
Sep 11 | Wednesday | 3 | | Matrix theory review – eigenvalues and eigenvectors (notes, Matlab) | FPE Appendix WB | HW 2 | HW 1 |
Sep 16 | Monday | 4 | | Matrix exponential, system response and stability (notes, code) | Ogata 9.2-9.5 FPE Appendix WB | | |
Sep 18 | Wednesday | 5 | | State space ↔ Transfer functions (notes) | Ogata 2.4, 9.2 FPE 7.4 | HW 3 (problems 1&2) (clarifications) | HW 2 Solutions |
Sep 23 | Monday | 6 | | Manipulating transfer functions (notes, code) | Ogata 2.6 FPE 3.2 | | |
Sep 25 | Wednesday | 7 | | Transient + steady-state responses (notes) | Ogata 5.1-5.3, 5.5 FPE 3.1, 3.4 | HW 4 | HW 3 Solutions |
Sep 30 | Monday | 8 | | (No class) Poles, zeros, and stability | Ogata 5.4, 5.6 FPE 3.3, 3.5-3.6 | | |
Oct 2 | Wednesday | 9 | | First look at feedback: P and PI control | Ogata 2.3 FPE 4.1-4.3.2 | | HW 4 (Fri) Solutions |
Oct 7 | Monday | 10 | | PID control and tuning rules (code) | Ogata 8.2 FPE 4.3.3-4.3.6 | | |
Oct 9 | Wednesday | 11 | | Creating root locus plots (worksheet, code) | Ogata 6.1-6.3 FPE 5.2-5.3 | HW 5 (code) | |
Oct 14 | Monday | | | No class – Indigenous People's Day | | | |
Oct 15 | Tuesday | | | Exam review (Review sheet) | | | HW 5 Partial MATLAB solution Solutions |
Oct 16 | Wednesday | | | 24-hour take-home midterm | | | |
Oct 21 | Monday | 12 | | Root locus exploration (worksheet/notes, code) | | | |
Oct 23 | Wednesday | 13 | | Root locus rules (notes) | FPE 5.1-5.2 | | HW 6 Solutions |
Oct 28 | Monday | 14 | | Lag/lead compensation (code) | FPE 5.4 | | |
Oct 30 | Wednesday | 15 | | Frequency response & Bode plots (notes) | FPE 6.1-6.2 | | |
Nov 4 | Monday | 16 | | Control in the frequency domain (notes, code) | FPE 6.7 | | |
Nov 6 | Wednesday | 17 | | Digital control | FPE 8.1 | HW 7 | |
Nov 11 | Monday | | | No class – Veteran's day | | | |
Nov 13 | Wednesday | 18 | | Sample rates, delays, and stability | FPE 8.5 | | HW 7 (Fri) |
Nov 18 | Monday | 19 | | Controllability (notes, midterm #3 script, midterm #4 model) | | | |
Nov 20 | Wednesday | 20 | | Control in state space (notes) | Ogata 10.2 FPE 7.5 | | |
Nov 25 | Monday | 21 | | Design of estimators, part 1 (notes) | | | |
Nov 27 | Wednesday | | | No class – Thanksgiving break | | | |
Dec 2 | Monday | 22 | | Design of estimators, part 2 (notes, code 1, code 2) | | | |
Dec 4 | Wednesday | 23 | | Using the reference input (notes) | | | |
Dec 7-10 | | | | Take-home final | | | |
Dec 19 | Thursday | | | Final projects due | | |
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