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Class
Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 4:30 - 5:45 p.m., Sci. & Tech. II, Room 15, Dr. Beale
Graduate
Teaching Assistant: Vijay Kadakkal
Office Hours: Thursday, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. and Friday, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m., Sci. & Tech. I, Room 2A
Prerequisites:
Grade of C or better in ECE 220 or POI
Text:
Modern Control Engineering, 4th Edition, K. Ogata,
Prentice Hall, 2002, Chapters 1, 3, 5 - 9
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.
Test 1 -- February 21 -- Chapters 1, 3 (Sections 3.1 and 3.3), and 5 (Sections 5.1. 5.2, 5.3)
Test 2 -- March 28 -- Chapters 5 (Sections 5.7 and 5.9) and 6
Final Exam -- Tuesday, May 9, 4:30 - 7:15 p.m. -- Comprehensive, with Chapters 7, 8, 9 emphasized
Last day to drop classes without Dean's permission -- Friday, February 24
No classes March 12 - 19 due to Spring Break!!!
Chapter 1 -- Introduction, what control systems are, types of control systems, examples of control systems, what feedback is and why it is used - 1-1/2 class periods.
Chapter 3 -- Block diagrams and their manipulation - 1-1/2 class periods.
Chapter 5 -- Transient analysis for systems, model and characteristics of first-order systems, model and characteristics of second-order systems, effects of control actions on system performance, stability analysis with the Routh array, steady-state errors in systems - 8 class periods.
Chapter 6 -- 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.
Chapter 7 -- Specifications for control systems, designing compensators using the root locus, phase lag and phase lead compensators, lag-lead compensation - 4 class periods.
Chapter 8 -- Frequency response analysis, polar plots and the Nyquist stability criterion, review of Bode plots, gain and phase margins - 4 class periods.
Chapter 9 -- Specifications for control systems, designing compensators in the frequency domain, phase lag and phase lead compensators, lag-lead compensation - 4 class periods.
Day | Date | Topic | Chapter |
---|---|---|---|
Tuesday |
Jan. 24 |
Introduction | 1 |
Thursday |
Jan. 26 |
Introduction and Block diagrams | 1, 3 |
Tuesday |
Jan. 31 |
Block diagrams | 3 |
Thursday |
Feb. 2 |
First-order systems | 5 |
Tuesday |
Feb. 7 |
Second-order systems | 5 |
Thursday |
Feb. 9 |
Second-order systems | 5 |
Tuesday |
Feb. 14 |
Second-order systems | 5 |
Thursday |
Feb. 16 |
Types of control actions (material not on Test #1) | 5 |
Tuesday |
Feb. 21 |
Test #1, Chapters 1, 3, and 5 (half) | 1, 3, 5 |
Thursday |
Feb. 23 |
Stability analysis with the Routh array | 5 |
Tuesday |
Feb. 28 |
Steady-state error | 5 |
Thursday |
March 2 |
Steady-state error | 5 |
Tuesday |
March 7 |
Introduction to pole movement, the root locus | 6 |
Thursday |
March 9 |
Root locus | 6 |
Tuesday |
March 14 |
Spring Break, No Class Today | ----- |
Thursday |
March 16 |
Spring Break, No Class Today | ----- |
Tuesday |
March 21 |
Root locus | 6 |
Thursday |
March 23 |
Introduction to compensator design (material not on Test #2) | 7 |
Tuesday |
March 28 |
Test #2, Chapters 5 (half) and 6 | 5, 6 |
Thursday |
March 30 |
Compensator design using root locus | 7 |
Tuesday |
April 4 |
Compensator design using root locus | 7 |
Thursday |
April 6 |
Compensator design using root locus | 7 |
Tuesday |
April 11 |
Polar plots and the Nyquist stability criterion | 8 |
Thursday |
April 13 |
Review of Bode plots | 8 |
Tuesday |
April 18 |
Relative stability, gain and phase margins | 8 |
Thursday |
April 20 |
Gain and phase margins | 8 |
Tuesday |
April 25 |
Compensator design using Bode plots, phase lag | 9 |
Thursday |
April 27 |
Compensator design using Bode plots, phase lag, phase lead | 9 |
Tuesday |
May 2 |
Compensator design using Bode plots, phase lead | 9 |
Thursday |
May 4 |
Compensator design using Bode plots, lag-lead | 9 |
Tuesday |
May 9 |
Final Exam, comprehensive, Chaps. 7, 8, 9 emphasized | All |
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