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:               t.b.d.

Class Hours:               MWF 3-3:50

Class Location:          Family Life Center 313

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)

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Date

 

Lecture

HW

Solution

Lab & Downloads

Jan 13

W

Introduction

Pretest

 

Jan 15

F

Pretest

Jan 18

M

Holiday

HW #1

(due wed)

Solution #1

2nd-Order Approcimations

Jan 20

W

LaPlace Transforms & 2nd Order Approx

Jan 22

F

Block Diagrams & VisSim

Jan 25

M

Snow day!

HW #2

Solution #2

Jan 27

W

State-Space and Canonical Forms

Jan 29

F

MATLAB and SciLab

Feb 1

M

Circuits and Differential Equations

HW #3

Find the parameters for a DC servo motor

Feb 3

W

Heat Equation

Feb 5

F

Mechanical Systems

Feb 8

M

LaGrangian Dynamics

 

 

Feb 10

W

Review

Feb 12

F

Test #1

Feb 15

M

Holiday

Feb 17

W

Error Constants

Feb 19

F

Routh Criteria

Feb 22

M

Feedback and Root Locus

Feb 24

W

Sketching a Root Locus Plot

Feb 26

F

Gain Compensation

Mar 1

M

Lead Compensation

 

Mar 3

W

PID Compensation

Mar 5

F

Meeting Design Specs

Mar 8

M

Systems with Delays

 

Mar 10

W

Review

Mar 12

F

Test #2

Mar 15

M

Holiday

 

Mar 17

W

Holiday

Mar 19

F

Holiday

Mar 22

M

Multi-Loop Feedback

 

Mar 24

W

Gantry Systems

Mar 26

F

Unstable Systems

Mar 29

M

Lightly Damped Systems

 

 

Mar 31

W

z-transforms

Apr 2

F

Holiday

Apr 5

M

Holiday

Apr 7

W

Root Locus in the z-domain

Apr 9

F

Lead Compensation in the z-domain

Apr 12

M

PID Compensation in the z-domain

 

Apr 14

W

Review

Apr 16

F

Test #3

Apr 19

M

Bode Plots

Nichols Chart

Apr 21

W

Nichols Charts

Apr 23

F

Nyquist, Inverst Nyquist Plots

Apr 26

M

Phase Margins & Gain Compensation

 

 

 

Apr 28

W

Lead Compensators

Apr 30

F

Lag Compensators

May 3

M

Meeting Design Specs

May 5

W

 

May 7

F

Review

May 12

W

Final 10:30 - 12:30

 

 

 


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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