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An introduction section giving an intuitive understanding of control;
definitions, applications, the issues involved and some possible
solution mechanisms (section 1). |
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A review of dynamic modeling of systems in terms of differential
equations (section 2). After the first year of teaching this course,
I removed all state-variable references from this section and moved
them later in the course. This has reduced confusion as only one
paradigm is studied at a time. |
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A section on dynamic response (section 3), explaining how we can
infer time-domain performance from a transfer function. The student
need not perform tedious partial-fraction expansion (etc) to convert
Laplace to time-domain any longer! |
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Sections describing how feedback improves performance (sections 4
and 5). Examples, and simple control-design methods. |
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Sections describing how to sketch root-locus plots, and how to use
them to design controllers (sections 6 and 7). |
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Sections describing how to sketch Bode and Nyquist plots, and use
them in design (sections 8 and 9). After the first year, I
reworked these sections entirely to improve clarity. |
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A section on state-variable analysis and controller design (section
10), and a section reviewing the entire course (section 11). |
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I typeset the lecture notes. |