ECE 461 – Control Systems I

Page 1:  Syllabus


   NDSU – ECE   .      

   Dr. Jake Glower   .  

   Page 2:  Downloads & Stuff   .

Page 3:  Sample Problems


 

Instructor:                    Jacob Glower

TA:                                 t.b.d.

Office Location:          ECE 101Q

Office Phone:              231-8068

Office Hours:               MWF 1:30 – 2:30 ECE 211

Class Hours:               11-11:50  MWF.

Class Location:           Morrill Hall 103

Text:                              Lecture Notes (see the links below)

                                        Any controls text with ‘Root Locus’ from Amazon or else where.  Schaum’s outline series on Control Systems is OK as well. ($12 on Amazon)

Web Admin                 Jake Glower

 


Date

 

Lecture

HW

Solution

Lab & Downloads

Aug 26

W

Introduction

Quiz #1

 

 

Aug 28

F

Pretest

Aug 31

M

LaPlace & 2nd Order Approximations

HW #1

Quiz #2

Solution #1

2nd Order Damping Curves

Sep 2

W

Block Diagrams & VisSim

Sep 4

F

State-Space and Canonical Forms

Sep 7

M

Holiday!

HW #2

Quiz #3

Solution #2

SciLab Control Toolbox (zip)

Sep 9

W

MATLAB & SciLab

Sep 11

F

Circuits & Differential Equations

Sep 14

M

Heat Equation

HW #3

Quiz #4

Solution #3

Heat Equation

Sep 16

W

Mechanical Systems

Sep 18

F

LaGrangian Dynamics

Sep 21

M

LaGrangian Dynamics (cont’d)

 

Test #1

Bonus Question

 

Sep 23

W

Review

Sep 25

F

Test #1

Sep 28

M

Error Constants

HW #4

Solution #4

Sep 30

W

Routh Criteria

Oct 2

F

Feedback and Root Locus

Oct 5

M

Sketching a Root Locus Plot

HW #5

Solution #5

Quiz #5

DC Motor Specs

Amp Specs

Oct 7

W

Gain Compensation

Oct 9

F

Lead Compensation

Oct 12

M

PID Compensation

HW #6

Solution #6

Control Simulations

 

Zip File

Oct 14

W

Meeting Design Specs

Oct 16

F

Multi-Loop Feedback

Oct 19

M

Systems with Delays

HW #7

Solution #7

 

 

Oct 21

W

Gantry System

Oct 23

F

Unstable Systems

Oct 26

M

Lightly Damped Systems

Test #2

 

Oct 28

W

Review

Oct 30

F

Test #2

Nov 2

M

z-transforms

HW #8

Solution #8

Digital PI Control

 

Nov 4

W

Root Locus in the z-domain

Nov 6

F

Lead Compensation in the z-domain

Nov 9

M

Bode Plots  (example)

 

 

 

Nov 11

W

Holiday!

Nov 13

F

Nichols Charts

Nov 16

M

Nyquist, Inverse Nyquist

HW #9

 

(Nichols Chart)

Nichols Chart

Nov 18

W

Gain Comp with Bode Plots

Nov 20

F

Lead Compensators

Nov 23

M

Lag Compensators

 

Nov 25

W

Design Examples

Nov 27

F

Holiday!

Nov 30

M

Design Examples

 

 

 

Dec 2

W

Review

Dec 4

F

Test #3

Dec 7

M

 

 

 

 

Dec 9

W

 

Dec 11

F

 


Various lecture notes that don’t fit in this semester….

·         Rotational Systems

·         Servo Motors

·         LaGrange Formulation of Dynamics

·         z-transforms

·         s to z conversions

·         Root Locus in the z-domain

·         Lead Compensation in the z-domain

·         PID Compensation in the z-domain

·         Deadbeat Controllers


 

 

 

 

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