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; | Slides, Laplace Table | FPE Section 3.2, Lab manual | |
| 6 | 02/05 | Modeling with Block Diagrams; Dominant poles; Effects of extra zeros, poles at origin | Slides | FPE Sections 3.2, 3.5 - 3.6 | |
| 7 | 02/10 | Sability, definitions; Routh-Hurwitz criterion for stability; | Slides, RH-Special | FPE Sections 3.4 - 3.6, Lab manual, RH-More | |
| 8 | 02/12 | Summary of Design Issues; O-L Control; Closed-loop: Benefits. | Slides | FPE Chapter 4 | Quiz 2 |
| 9 | 02/17 | P, PI, PD, PID Control; derviation and analyis; System types; Tuning. | Slides | FPE Chapter 4 | |
| 10 | 02/19 | PI, PD Example problems; Intro to Root Locus (rules A-B-C) | In-class, Slides | FPE Section 5.1 - 5.3 | |
| 11 | 02/24 | Root Locus Method continued (recap rules A-B-C and do rules D-E) | Slides | FPE Section 5.1 - 5.3 | |
| 12 | 02/26 | Root Locus Wrap up; Lead/Lag dynamic compensation, design using Root Locus. | Slides | FPE Section 5.4 | Quiz 3 |
| 13 | 03/03 | Lag compensation for PI, Intro to freq. response methods. | Slides | FPE Section 5.4 | |
| 14 | 03/05 | Bode plots; Bode plots for 1st & 2nd order systems | Slides | FPE Section 6.1-6.2 | |
| 15 | 03/10 | Bode Plots for three types of transfer functions and general systems; | Link, Slides | FPE Section 6.1-6.2 | |
| 03/12 | Midterm | Practice Material | Exam | ||
| 16 | 03/24 | Bode plots for design: Gain & phase margins | Slides, Visualization | FPE Section 6.4 | |
| 17 | 03/26 | Bode plots for design: Lead/lag controllers revisited. | Slides | FPE Chapter 6.5-6.6 | |
| 18 | 03/31 | Wrap up lag controllers. Intro to Nyquist Plots; | Slides, Arg. Principle | FPE Section 6.7 and 6.3 | |
| 19 | 04/02 | Nyquist Plots: Encirclement property (argument principle); | Slides, Link | FPE Section 6.3 | Quiz 4 |
| 20 | 04/07 | Nyquist Stability Conditions; examples. Gain & phase margins again. | Slides, Examples | FPE Section 6.3 and 6.7 | |
| 21 | 04/09 | Introduction to state-space design & canonical forms. | Slides | Notes (Sections 1 and 2) | |
| 22 | 04/14 | No lecture | |||
| 23 | 04/16 | Time domain solutions in state-space form & matrix exponential | Notes | Quiz 5 | |
| 24 | 04/21 | Similarity transformations, internal stability, stability conditions. | Notes (Section 2), | ||
| 25 | 04/23 | Controllability; Pole placement by full state feedback | FPE Section 7.5, Notes (Section 3) | ||
| 26 | 04/28 | Reference tracking with full state feedback; observability | FPE Chapter 7.6 | ||
| 27 | 04/30 | Observer design for state estimation; dynamic output feedback | FPE Section 7.7, Notes (Section 4) | Quiz 6 | |
| 05/05 | Wrap up and in-class discussion |
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