Handbook

In modern engineering, control systems play a crucial role, significantly impacting our daily lives. These systems are integral to various applications, such as public transportation, climate control in buildings, manufacturing processes, and household appliances. Most of these systems are computer-controlled.

This course enables students to design and develop control systems in the discrete-time domain, specifically for motion control applications. Key topics covered include a review of continuous-time control systems and essential design tools such as root locus, Bode plots, and the Laplace transform. Additional topics include starred Laplace transforms, z-transforms, discretizing continuous-time systems, and evaluating stability, speed of response, and accuracy. Students will also learn controller design using techniques like the root locus method, direct and indirect analytical methods, and Bode plots. The course covers state estimation and observer design as well.

The experimental content and the associated video content will help the students appreciate how control systems work. In a group setting, students will be able to observe, how controllers of their peers operate with different controller parameters  demonstrating different behaviours.