EE 105  —  Feedback control systems

Steven Bell <sbell at ece.tufts.edu>

M/W 1:30-2:45pm, Halligan 111B

Notices

9 September 2019

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9 September 2019

Steven's office hours, Halligan 202c:

  • Monday 10:30am-12:30pm

  • Tuesday 3-5pm

  • Thursday 3-4pm (walking OH)

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  • Friday 12-1pm

Schedule

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