ECE 486 Lecture Materials
This table will be periodically updated through out the semester.
Annotated versions of the slides can be found in this Canvas folder.
| Lec # | Date | Topic | Lecture Materials | Reading | Quiz |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/20 | Introduction to feedback control | Slides | FPE Ch. 1, Control - A perspective | |
| 2 | 01/22 | LTI system modeling; linearization; state-space format of systems | Slides | FPE Sections 1.1, 1.2, 2.1 - 2.4, 7.2 | |
| 3 | 01/27 | Time-domain response of LTI systems | Slides | FPE Section 3.1, Appendix A | |
| 4 | 01/29 | Transfer function; transient response, DC gain, final value theorem. | Slides | FPE Section 3.3 - 3.4, Lab manual | Quiz 1 |
| 5 | 02/03 | First-order and second-order system responses; | FPE Section 3.2, Lab manual | ||
| 6 | 02/05 | Modeling with Block Diagrams; Dominant Pole Approximation; Effects of Extra Zeros | FPE Sections 3.2, 3.5 - 3.6 | ||
| 7 | 02/10 | Sability, definitions; Routh-Hurwitz criterion for stability; | FPE Sections 3.4 - 3.6, Lab manual | ||
| 8 | 02/12 | Summary of Control Design Issues; Open-loop Control; Closed-loop Proportional (P) Control;' PI Control; PD Control | Quiz 2 | ||
| 9 | 02/17 | PI Tuning for 1st-Order Systems; PID Tuning for 2nd-Order Systems | |||
| 10 | 02/19 | Integrator Anti-windup; Control Law Implementation | |||
| 11 | 02/24 | Introduction to Root Locus design method (rules A-B-C) | |||
| 12 | 02/26 | Root Locus Method continued (rules D-E-F) | Quiz 3 | ||
| 13 | 03/03 | Steady-State Sinusoidal Response; Review | |||
| 14 | 03/05 | Introduction to Bode plots; Bode plots for 1st & 2nd order systems | FPE Section 5.1 - 5.4, Section 6.1 | ||
| 15 | 03/10 | Bode Plots for General Systems; Frequency Content of Signals | FPE Section 6.1 | ||
| 03/12 | Midterm | ||||
| 16 | 03/24 | Bode plots for three types of transfer functions and general LTI systems | FPE Section 6.1 | ||
| 17 | 03/26 | Sensitivity Functions; Gain Margin; Phase Margin | FPE Chapter 6 | ||
| 18 | 03/31 | Nyquist Plots; Nyquist Stability Conditions; Disk Margin | FPE Chapter 6 | ||
| 19 | 04/02 | Frequency Domain Performance; Introduction to Loopshaping; Lead & Lag Control | FPE Chapter 6 | Quiz 4 | |
| 20 | 04/07 | PID & lead-lag; encirclement property (argument principle) | FPE Chapter 6 | ||
| 21 | 04/09 | Nyquist stability criterion I | |||
| 22 | 04/14 | Nyquist stability criterion II | FPE Chapter 6 | ||
| 23 | 04/16 | Introduction to state-space design & canonical forms | FPE Chapter 6 | Quiz 5 | |
| 24 | 04/21 | Controllability; pole-zero cancellations; internal stability; similarity transformation | FPE Chapter 7 | ||
| 25 | 04/23 | Pole placement by full state feedback | FPE Chapter 7 | ||
| 26 | 04/28 | Reference tracking with full state feedback; observability | FPE Chapter 7 | ||
| 27 | 04/30 | Observer design for state estimation; dynamic output feedback | FPE Chapter 7 | Quiz 6 | |
| 05/05 | Wrap up and in-class discussion |
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