This course introduces the design of feedback control systems as applied to a variety of air and spacecraft systems.
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This course includes
Hours of videos
972 years, 1 month
Units & Quizzes
35
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Certificate of Completion
Topics include the properties and advantages of feedback systems, time-domain and frequency-domain performance measures, stability and degree of stability, the Root locus method, Nyquist criterion, frequency-domain design, and state space methods.
Course Currilcum
- Why automatic control? Categorization of control systems Unlimited
- Block diagrams, the effect of feedback Unlimited
- Modeling principles Unlimited
- Block diagram manipulations, Mason’ rule Unlimited
- Dynamic response of closed-loop systems Unlimited
- Time-domain specifications Unlimited
- Effect of zeros Unlimited
- The Routh criterion Unlimited
- Effect of noise, steady-state errors Unlimited
- PID control Unlimited
- The root locus method Unlimited
- Root locus rules Unlimited
- Root locus rules, lead compensation Unlimited
- Lag compensation Unlimited
- Zero degree root locus Unlimited
- Frequency response design Unlimited
- Bode plot problems Unlimited
- Bode plots (cont.) Unlimited
- Complex poles and zeros, unstable poles, and non-minimum phase zeros Unlimited
- The Nyquist stability criterion Unlimited
- The Nyquist stability criterion (cont.) Unlimited
- Nyquist with poles on imaginary axis Unlimited
- Stability margins, Bode gain-phase theorem Unlimited
- Bode compensation Unlimited
- Lead compensation Unlimited
- Lag compensation (cont.) Unlimited
- NMP systems Unlimited
- The Nichols chart Unlimited
- Digital control, the z-transform Unlimited
- The z‐transform, design by emulation, the Tustin transform Unlimited
- Compensator design examples, time delay of ZOH Unlimited
- Discrete design Unlimited
- The w-transform Unlimited
- Design examples, pre‐warping, direct design Unlimited
- Higher harmonic control Unlimited
