University of Notre Dame
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

AME 437: Control Systems Engineering Course Syllabus

Instructor:

B. Goodwine
Office: 367 Fitzpatrick
Email: jgoodwin@nd.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays, 8:00-10:00 pm, or by appointment.

Teaching Assistants:

Wei Wang Office: B28 Fitzpatrick Wang.102@nd.edu	Baoyang Deng Office: B22 Fitzpatrick Email: bdeng2@nd.edu
Yanto Go Office: B28 Fitzpatrick Email: ygo@nd.edu	Michael Cochran Office: Email: mcochran@nd.edu
Biao Zhang Office: Email: zbiao@nd.edu

Course Web Page:

http://controls.ame.nd.edu/ame437

Grading:

The final grade will be based on homework sets, three exams and one project.

Homework (15%)

Late homework will not be accepted without prior permission from the instructor.

Exam 1 (25%): Wednesday, February 26, 2002.
Exam 2 (25%): Wednesday, April 9, 2002.
Project (5%): Monday, April 30, 2002.
Final exam (30%).
Note: the project is in the process of being developed. If it is not assigned, the percentage of the grade allocated to homework will be appropriately increased.

Homework policy:

Collaboration on homework assignments in encouraged. You may consult outside reference materials, other students, the TAs, or the instructor. However, all solutions that are handed in should reflect your understanding of the subject matter at the time of writing.

Project:

The project will be to design a pitch attitude controller for a Microsoft Flight Simulator aircraft.

Course text and references:

The required text for the course is Continuous and Discrete Control Systems: Modeling, Identification, Design and Implementation, by John Dorsey, McGraw Hill, 2002.
An additional, strongly recommended textbook is Raven, Automatic Control Engineering, Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Software:

A controls tutorial for Matlab.
CMU Matlab Page (lots of information).
MathWorks Web Site.

Course outline:

Topic:	Target dates:
Chapter 1: Introduction.	January 15 - January 17
Chapter 2: The Laplace Transform.	January 20 - January 24
Chapter 3: The Transfer Function.	January 27 - January 31
Chapter 4: Introducing Feedback.	February 3 - February 7
Chapter 5: Root-locus Analysis.	February 10 - February 14
Chapter 6: Quantifying Performance.	February 17 - February 21
Chapter 7: Cascade Root Locus Design.	February 24 - February 28
Chapter 9: Frequency Response.	March 17 - March 21
Chapter 10: Nyquist Criterion.	March 24 - March 28
Chapter 11: Bode Design.	March 31 - April 4
Chapter 12: Robust Control.	April 7 - April 11
Chapter 13: Position Control: A Case Study.	April 14 - April 23

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Last updated: January 15, 2003
B. Goodwine (jgoodwin@nd.edu)