ECE 421

Classical Systems and Control Theory
Fall 2004

 

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Class Time: Monday and Wednesday, 12:00 - 1:15 p.m., Science & Technology II, 
Room 15, Dr. Beale
Graduate Teaching Assistant: Nusrath Fatima
         Office Hours: Monday, 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. and Wednesday, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m., Sci. & Tech I, Room 2G
Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in ECE 220 or POI
Text: Modern Control Systems , 10th Edition, R.C. Dorf and R.H. Bishop, Prentice Hall, 2005, Chapters 1, 2, 4 - 10

Homework Assignments

Examples

Design Project

Bibliography

Objectives

Grading

Important Dates

Course Outline

Course Calendar

Objectives:

Learn the purposes, advantages and disadvantages, terminology, and configurations of feedback control systems.
 Learn ways of classifying, measuring, and analyzing the stability and performance properties of feedback control systems.
 Learn various classical frequency domain and time domain techniques for designing compensators in order to improve performance in feedback systems.

Prerequisites by topic:

Knowledge of Fourier and Laplace transforms.
Ability to develop transfer functions for linear electrical circuits.
Knowledge of relationship between system poles and time- domain performance.
Knowledge of the concept of system frequency response.

Course Requirements:

Important Dates:

Test 1 -- Wednesday September 29 -- Chapters 1, 2, and 4
 Test 2 -- Wednesday, November 3-- Chapters 5, 6, and 7
 Final Exam -- Monday, December 13, 10:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. -- Comprehensive, with Chapter 10 emphasized
 Last day to drop classes without Dean's permission -- Friday, October 1.
Monday's class of October 11 will be held on Tuesday, October 12, due to Columbus Day Break!!!

Course Outline:

Chapter 1 -- Introduction, what control systems are, types of control systems, examples of control systems, what feedback is and why it is used -- 1 class period.

Chapter 2 -- Block diagrams and their manipulation, signal flow graphs, Mason's gain formula -- 4 class periods.

Chapter 4 -- Advantages of feedback systems, reduction of sensitivity to parameter changes, reduction in the effects of disturbances -- 2 class periods.

Chapter 5 -- Transient analysis for systems, model and characteristics of second-order systems, steady-state errors in systems -- 4 class periods.

Chapter 6 -- Stability of linear systems, stability analysis from the Routh array -- 2 class periods.

Chapter 7 -- Closed-loop poles and their movement, concept of the root locus magnitude and phase criteria, constructing the root locus plot, properties of the root locus -- 3 class periods.

Chapters 8 & 9 -- Frequency response analysis, review of Bode plots, gain and phase margins -- 3 class periods.

Chapter 10 -- Specifications for control systems, designing compensators with root locus and in the frequency domain, phase lag and phase lead compensators, lag-lead compensation -- 7 class periods.

Course Calendar:

Day Date Topic Chapter
Monday
Aug. 30
 Introduction
1
Wednesday
Sept. 1
Block diagrams
2
Monday
Sept. 6
Labor Day, No Class Today
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Wednesday
Sept. 8
Block diagrams
2
Monday
Sept. 13
Signal flow graphs, Mason gain rule
2
Wednesday
Sept. 15
Signal flow graphs, Mason gain rule
2
Monday
Sept. 20
Sensitivity to parameter variations
4
Wednesday
Sept. 22
Disturbance rejection
4
Monday
Sept. 27
Second-order systems (material not on Test #1)
5
Wednesday
Sept. 29
Test #1, Chapters 1, 2, and 4
1, 2, 4
Monday
Oct. 4
Second-order systems
5
Wednesday
Oct. 6
Steady-state error
5
*** Tuesday ***
Oct. 12
 Steady-state error
5
Wednesday
Oct. 13
System stability, the Routh array
6
Monday
Oct. 18
Routh array
6
Wednesday
Oct. 20
Introduction to pole movement, the root locus
7
Monday
Oct. 25
Root locus
7
Wednesday
Oct. 27
Root locus
7
Monday
Nov. 1
Bode plots (material not on Test #2)
8
Wednesday
Nov. 3
Test #2, Chapters 5, 6, and 7
5, 6, 7
Monday
Nov. 8
Gain and phase margins
8
Wednesday
Nov. 10
Gain and phase margins
8
Monday
Nov. 15
Compensator design using root locus, phase lead
10
Wednesday
Nov. 17
Compensator design using root locus, phase lead
10
Monday
Nov. 22
Compensator design using root locus, phase lag
10
Wednesday
Nov. 24
Thanksgiving Break, No Class Today
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Monday
Nov. 29
Compensator design using Bode plots, phase lag
10
Wednesday
Dec. 1
Compensator design using Bode plots, phase lag, phase lead
10
Monday
Dec. 6
Compensator design using Bode plots, phase lead
10
Wednesday
Dec. 8
Compensator design using Bode plots, lag-lead
10
Monday
Dec. 13
Final Exam, comprehensive, Chap. 10 emphasized
All


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