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ECE 486 Lecture Materials

This table will be periodically updated through out the semester.  

Lec # Date Topic Lecture Materials Reading Quiz
1 01/20 Introduction to feedback control   FPE Ch. 1, Control - A perspective  
2 01/22 LTI system modeling; linearization; state-space format of systems   FPE Sections 1.1, 1.2, 2.1 - 2.4, 7.2  
3 01/27 Time-domain response of LTI systems   FPE Section 3.1, Appendix A  
4 01/29 Transfer function; Block diagrams; first-order and second-order system responses   FPE Section 3.3 - 3.4, Lab manual Quiz 1
5 02/03 Dominant Pole Approximation; Effects of Extra Zeros   FPE Section 3.2, Lab manual  
6 02/05 State-Space Models   FPE Sections 3.2, 3.5 - 3.6  
7 02/10 Summary of Control Design Issues; Open-loop Control; Closed-loop Proportional (P) Control   FPE Sections 3.4 - 3.6, Lab manual  
8 02/12 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 Routh-Hurwitz criterion for stability; Introduction to Root Locus design method      
12 02/26 Root Locus Method     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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